Mist rolling over the hills and then through the valleys in very late Autumn. The biggest ingredient that any photog needs in their work? Luck. I literally came round the corner that day and there it all was happening in front of me. An hour or so later it was all gone.
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That particular late afternoon was bright and sunny as we were walking along when we came round a corner and in distance spotted the mist rolling over the low hills opposite and down into the valleys below the ridge we were on.
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It started to fill the vales and as it crept closer it permeated the trees directly below us until they too began to white out and vanish.
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The sun completely disappeared and all became damp, gloomy and very atmospheric. I was glad I had followed my one and only golden rule of photography as ever that day which was to always carry a camera. What a terrible thing to have missed such an opportunity!
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On it rolled blanketing the land leaving just the tops of the high ground sticking up like so many islands.
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The trees at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale, as the mist rolled through them adding a mysterious gloom to their leafless skeletal structures and obscuring all about them.
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Until finally the sun broke through again and the mist rolled back and vanished almost as quickly as it had come. What a mystical experience.