Occasionally after a strong cold frontal passage in Northern Arizona, dense fogs develop over the lower valleys in the cold, stagnant airmass. During the Winter of 2004/2005, we had a rather spectacular occurrence of these inversion fogs, which lasted over a week. I set out to shoot the Wapatki ruins in the fog, but found that the fog had lifted to just over the top of the ruins – not quite what I was looking for. So I set back toward home, passing through the forest near Sunset Crater, which was in the fog. Stopping the car I studied the landscape for an interesting composition, and spotted this image. Immediately I knew it would make a better B/W image than color (it was almost monotone anyway!), and set up my tripod and 70-200L lens and shot off a few images. I added one stop to the exposure to lighten the images, and then added a bit of contrast in Photoshop to increase the sense of ‘depth’ of the image. While I didn’t get the shot I was looking for of the Wapatki Ruins in the fog, I’m very satisfied with what I was able to capture on the way back. Canon 10D, 70-200L, 1/350 sec at F/9.5