All images © 2007-2013 Aaron Meyers
I’ve been chasing low fog at the Golden Gate Bridge for several years now but I've never been happy with any of my photos taken from the top of Slacker Hill. Most of my fog mornings have been spent at Hawk Hill, a bit further west from Slacker and much easier to get to (it doesn’t require hiking, like Slacker Hill does). Willie, Zack, Alan, and I met to photograph the fog from a different spot but once we crossed from San Francisco into Marin, we were worried that the fog level might be too high for our original destination, and instead decided we would hike the half mile up to Slacker Hill. We were the first to arrive but several other photographers joined us. My SmugMug co-workers, who I had invited along, stayed back at Hawk Hill. There had been low fog the day before, which was rare in that it happened in July and that it occurred 2 days in a row. On the previous morning the fog was a hundred feet lower, exposing the deck of the bridge. Here the fog rose and fell, covering and revealing the 2nd window of the North Tower. Luckily low fog is popular enough now that cars were driving up Conzelman Road constantly, giving us a chance to capture the car lights in our photos. Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8: 32mm, f/8, 30 sec, ISO 320
Willie and I had been wanting to visit Mt. Rainier in the “spring” (August) for quite a number of years but we finally made it happen in 2016. With a wet winter we had high hopes that the wildflower blooms would yield carpets and carpets of flowers. Unfortunately we found only patches of flowers. While hiking above Myrtle Falls we came across this field of lupines that caught our eye. Mixed in here-and-there were little splashes of Indian Paintbrush, which provided a nice contrasting color to the red and purple lupine. We knew this would make a great spot for photos, if only the clouds would cooperate. We had initially setup our tripods to face south-west, towards the sunset, since Mt. Rainier was completely cloudless and there were a few patches of clouds facing the Tatoosh Range. Rainier had a different agenda in mind. It’s commonly known that the volcano peak makes its own weather and sure enough, within minutes beautiful clouds had formed around the mountain. When the sun hit them, it sent a giant light ray through the sky, and turned the clouds a beautiful orange, and then purple and pink before fading away. What a sunset! Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8: 18mm, f/13, 1/4 sec, ISO 250
