The weather menu for July here has been fog appetizers with a choice of the following entrées: plain fog; fog with rain; fog with mist; fog with sun sauce; sun with fog on the side; cold with fog icing, and heat and humidity baked in fog.
The most enjoyable (at least for a photographer) is sun with fog on the side, when the fog continuously and quickly rolls in and over you to turn a clear, sunny day into a wet gauzey net and then rolls back to its original threatening position.
That’s what happened here on the morning of Thursday (July 9). One minute, we were trying to focus on this happy, wind-blown osprey posing atop a tall spruce with a brilliant blue sky background:
The next moment, we were enveloped in a cloud that caused the disturbed bird to swoop away. But, not before we “shot” her and got this extraordinary image:
Out in Great Cove, one moment, Lavera from Blue Hill was watching the fog come toward her; the next moment, she was lost and we had to use a big lens to find her (in closeup form):
The surrounding coast and islands tend to stand out on a day like this, when the fog rolls in and out and often becomes a background curtain:
Eventually, the fog won its battle of attrition and took over the day. This is how Naskeag Harbor looked in the afternoon:
(Brooklin, Maine)