The Mist Rises...

If one is up early enough, it is quite common for mist to settle about the watermeadows and (seeming to) engulf the lower girth of Salisbury Cathedral - indeed, I have photographed it a number of times, always breathtakingly beautiful, as if there is no more outstanding sight, anywhere, for those minutes that one is there.

This is different to my previous attempts as I had set out with the intention of photographing the autumn colour of the trees that overhang the River Nadder, further along. Having just missed the sunrise, itself, I then found it rather cloudy, but then it broke up and fragmented, with this sky. The mist then increased.

As ever, I did loads of shots, many telephoto and these are all, frankly, breathtaking, with the sheep picked out on the dewy grass of the Meadows. However, when I put on my Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8 on the full-frame D700, the impact I saw hit my like a vision and I knew I had to have this one!

The polariser helps, too and the milky softish light helped me easily extract the foreground detail, without much shadow extraction in Photoshop. It's a fabulous lens and so no sharpening required. I still cropped a bit off the far left as it was doing nothing and made the composition less neat.

I did burn the sky in, a bit, as separate areas, as some parts needed more than others.

I hope you enjoy looking at this image as I did in taking it - and witnessing it!