Sydney Fog…
by Rodney Campbell on Apr.10, 2014, under Life, Photography
On many recent mornings Sydney has been blanketed in fog – which is quite unusual this early in the year – it’s normally May before this starts to happen and even then it’s a pretty rare event
On this morning the fog was about the heaviest I’d ever seen and was still going very strong well after sunrise which seemed unable to burn it off
I was actually on my way to work this day and had just dropped my daughter off at school in North Sydney and since I had my camera with me (just the camera and the 24-70) I figured I’d make a quick side trip to Kirribilli and see what I could shoot
Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.
This is 8:30AM and I’m just under the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it vanishes in the fog even before we get to the main northern pilon only 100 metres away and forget seeing the harbour just a few metres beyond that
Bridge to Nowhere
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 29 mm, 1/100 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100
An eerie feeling and hard to believe this is almost 90 minutes after sunrise and the sun is actually quite high up in the sky by now
Time for the classic shot under the harbour bridge looking out across the water towards the Sydney CBD. Normally here we’d be seeing the sails of the Opera House on the left and the city skyline on both sides – here we’re lucky to see the waters edge on this side
Raising the Bridge
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 200
The view from near Luna Park with the ferries out in the harbour sounding their horns so they don’t crash into each other
Running to the Edge
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/160 sec at f/11, ISO 200
9AM!
What Lies Beneath
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/160 sec at f/11, ISO 200
Headed further around towards Kirribilli and shot back across the water towards the side of the bridge which just extends out into space
Link to the Past
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/100 sec at f/11, ISO 200
and finally around 9:20 the fog starts to burn off and we can just make out the city on the other side of the harbour
The Other Side
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 27 mm, 1/200 sec at f/10, ISO 200
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