Week 84 "Fog"

​This morning this scene greeted us as we climbed the stairs for breakfast. The fog had rolled in overnight. I had made a few images after dark last evening, thinking that they might be interesting, and even tried to capture the planes landing at the airport, but I didn’t think the images were up to much, and certainly not good enough to share.  Anyway, I scrapped them all once I made this image this morning at 6.46. It was so different from the usual scene. The sun rise made the sky glow, yet the timing meant that the fog still had a blue tint, because the sun hadn’t quite reached the fog. Within about 30 minutes the fog had started to burn off, leaving lines of trees in the far distance beyond the airport first, then buildings in the city and suburbs and finally the streets and gardens. Stunning to watch. A few days ago I found a slow exposure single image of fog moving, taken with an ND Filter on the internet. It was very beautiful, with the fog rolling and looking like waves. Odd coincidence that just a few days later this happened, right under our noses. 

The group of cranes on the left are at the hospital, where a new building is going up. The cranes to the immediate left of the two buildings are the Justice and Emergency Services precinct, then the Forsyth Barr building on the corner of Colombo Street and Armagh Street, just north of the Square. I don’t know what the one with the spike is. The cranes on the right are at the Polytech, I think (recently rebranded as  Ara Institute). The steam in the distance is the chip mill at Ashley. Christchurch is the crane capital of New Zealand right now. Hand held, ISO 400,  f6.3 at 1/125, not that I would normally bother sharing the numbers, but it was just one of those moments!