Monday, 6 January 2025

Pretty Misty


Hardown Hill

As has become our custom, we split our end of year / start of year break into two halves: some time at Christmas with our adult children in Dorset, then New Year in our Bristol flat, meeting up with my partner's family and some old friends from our time living in the city.

Dorset was incredibly foggy, as was much of Britain. On our first day there – in our customary rental in Morcombelake, perched on the shoulder of Hardown Hill – you could see there was a dense ridge of mist out near the coast. By the next day it had rolled inland to cover everything for the next four days, reducing visibility to a minimum. As you can imagine, this was not ideal from a walking or photographic p-o-v.

But in addition to a "proper" camera and my iPhone I'd taken along the crazy Canon Zoom monocular, and got some interesting shots with it. I like the way its intimate close-in zooming couples with barely-acceptable image quality to produce some very "pictorial" images. Here are a few from Dorset:




And here are a few more from the vantage point of the Bristol flat, where the mist finally cleared after a stormy New Year's Eve, and sunshine and a little frost livened things up:




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