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Spurred on by Nathaniel’s gentle insistence, here’s what I believe to be a fairly nifty photo I took back in the spring, when the fog had really settled in all over the pasture around the house where I live in Lyme.

I think it works even better in black and white.

For the sake of completeness, this photo was taken using the default settings on the old Sony Mavica digital camera I’ve got. To give you an idea of the high quality this contraption produces, you should know it dates from about 1997 and can store about 16 “hi-res” mode photos on a 3.5″ floppy diskette. Fortunately for me, I’m pretty darned nearsighted anyways, so fuzzy pictures don’t bother me so much.

“Artist’s” statement, if you’ll permit me: Willow trees are often used in literature, particularly poetry, as a symbol of death. Back home in Alabama, we get lots of thick heavy fog in Mobile Bay, which the old Spaniard settlers called “La Bahía del Espirito Santo” (English = “The Bay of the Holy Spirit”), and fog has long been associated in many cultures with supernatural or spiritual phenomena. When I was out taking pictures of some heavy fog back in the Spring, I turned around and saw this imposing fog-shrouded willow and thought, “That’s kind of mystifyin’ and such; I need to photograph that.”

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