Foggy First Light

Growing up to 300 feet high and known to live for 300 years Eucalyptus diversicolor, commonly known as The Karri, is a eucalypt native to the wetter regions of southwestern Western Australia.

The morning this photo was taken was special. I awoke to the heaviest fog I had seen in the valley for some time. Having waited for exactly these conditions, I eagerly jumped out of my warm bed, and with exuberant expectation, ventured up the road to a location I had specifically chosen for this shot, all the while watching the cool fog consume the view behind me as I went.

Standing on the road at this spot in the cool, the total silence was pleasantly eerie. The tall, majestic Karri trees illuminated ever so lightly on one side from the rising sun framed the road ahead. I could hear the dripping of the fog off of the leaves as the fog and newly risen sun battled for supremacy over the landscape, with the fog consuming the background, providing as it did a sense of mystery as to what lay beyond.