These images are beautiful.<p>They remind me of a few times when I’ve been able to see the patterns the wind creates, to visualise wind.<p>First up was strong winds in the desert, whipping sand off the dunes and creating patterns in the air.<p>Second was in Canada, during light snow fall. A thin layer of snow, dust like, was on the roads. And the cars / winds would whip it up to about 10 cm’s off the road. It enabled the visualisation of both the wind and the air being pushed around by cars and trucks. I found it mesmerising.<p>Usually it’s only visible through clouds, and it’s mostly static, unless the wind is incredibly strong.<p>Does anyone have other situations where they’ve been able to see wind? Or other usually invisible phenomena?
"This is where I coined the term “Fog Waves”"<p>Nope. Sorry, Nick. Harold Gilliam has been publishing at least since '62 on the topic. "Fog Wave" can be easily found in the most recent scanned edition of his book, <i></i>Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region: Second Edition<i></i>, from 2002.[0] (no quick search reveals if the term is also in the '62 edition)<p>[0] <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aaYwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=harold+gilliam+%22fog+wave%22#v=onepage&q=harold%20gilliam%20%22fog%20wave%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=aaYwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=P...</a>
The film Baraka has great shots of moving fog in mountains: <a href="https://youtu.be/r6BJkLWivzY?t=1029" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/r6BJkLWivzY?t=1029</a><p>They are still my favorite nature shots. I'm remembering them when I remind myself that the planet has way more great stuff than what I see daily around me.
Stunning. I flew out of SFO yesterday morning and as we flew over the city, a thick white layer of fog covered everything except the very top of Sutro Tower. Very sublime, it looked like a cloud sea with blue skies above.
We play on the sea. When the weather is a bit grim you can see big clumps of misty rain come in on the wind. They look voluminous and heavy. But you get to be inside them. All swirly and wet.
Near my house we sometimes get a standing wave where the fog actually curls as it flows SSE over the spine of the peninsula / Sweeney Ridge.<p>It’s pretty amazing. I love the fog for some reason :P
That's beautiful. And I thought I was lucky to live in the hills above a river that usually has a trail of thick fog hugging it in the Fall and Spring.
>I do this by putting on dark filters known as ND or Neutral Density filters that trick the camera into thinking it’s night time forcing a longer shutter speed.<p>Author is knowledgeable enough about filters but can't figure out manual mode on his camera?