Fog is such strange stuff. It can give an eerie atmosphere, make you feel isolated and hemmed in or just play with the light to give all sorts of alien effects. In the mornings it’s rolling only a few feet off the ground across the fields giving you an ever so strange floating feeling, then in the evening, it turns street lamps into a photo features as it plays with the lighting.

Through the long summer days, with the sun shining and the late sunsets I forget every year the difference a few months and few degrees makes.

This shot was taken a few autumns ago and is typical of autumn here in the UK. It’s cold, it’s wet and it’s foggy. I looked out of the window one evening and saw the strange glow effect as cones of light were created all the way to the floor by the fog. So I stuck my head out of the window and took this picture.

Living near a river seems to be the prime cause for the fog that shows up in October every year and is usually stays all the way through to December, both on dull overcast days and on clear icy days.

While all winter long I wish for the longer warmer sunnier evenings and the early morning sunrise which wakes me a lot more naturally than a blaring alarm, I don’t think I could do without the autumn fog. It’s easy to take something as simple as fog for granted, but every year, without fail, it creates peculiar and individual scenes, which astound and amaze me every time.

While it’s easy to complain about the cold, the damp and the limited visibility, one thing autumn brings every year is weather that is full of character and which gives some amazing scenery.

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