Another amazing instance of fog last evening, but this time it covered pretty much the entire view from Grizzly Peak. I arrived just before the sun disappeared and found the blanket of thick fog covering all three bridges, and pretty much everything else below my lofty perch. In the distance only the top of Sutro Tower peeked through.
It looked very cool but didn’t make for much of a photograph. As I waited for the sky to darken, a flurry of bats arrived to feed on the insects. Occasionally one would pass in front of me with the orange sky as background, and for a split second I’d be able to see the Batman shape of its wings. For the second time in two days while waiting for the light on Marlborough street, I ran into a couple on an evening stroll and we chatted about the stars. They never game me their names, but the man cleverly spotted a space station in obit as it passed quickly from one side of the evening sky to the other.
We knew it wasn’t a plane because it had no flashing red lights, only a solid white light like a quickly-moving star. After 30 second or so it faded out as it passed into the earth’s shadow and out of the sun’s light. Very cool! Once again I appreciated how photography not only brings me to some amazing places, but also puts me in touch with people whom I’d otherwise not have occasion to meet.
I was hoping that when the sky got dark enough, the city lights from below the fog would make for something interesting, and I was not disappointed. At first there was a kind of yellow tint to the scene until the sky got properly dark and things shifted to a pleasing bluish. The fog had just started to peel back from Berkeley to show some of the area around the UC campus as I was leaving, and this was the last exposure of the evening.
Info: Made with a Nikon D700 Digital SLR Camera
