Willie Huang Photo
Cloud City
This past weekend has been a memorable one in the Bay Area. Again, the fog ninja, Alan, did his fog dance and delivered the goods. While driving up to SF, I knew it was going to be epic with the pea soup-like conditions passing through Daly City. I met up with Alan and off we went to the Marin Headlands. In addition, we met up with Yan before picking our shooting location. We first headed to Hawk Hill but saw the fog was a tad higher than we had expected and subsequently retreated back down to Slacker Hill.
Huffing and puffing the three of us conquered this uphill hike and were treated to a beautiful scene of low fog and glowing lights. Just as we arrived at the summit of Slacker Hill, the fog level lowered a bit and at times was low enough for the deck lights to be seen. The greatest part was when we waited for cars to drive up Conzelman Road for light streams on the right. With every car that came up, all of us would yell “Car! Car!” and quickly start exposing.
As it got brighter we noticed an immense sheet of high clouds towards the north. Just to our dismay the high clouds were too far north and were out of our frames. However, we enjoyed one of the most stunning sunrises I’ve ever seen in SF. It was all worth the lack of sleep.
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
Singh-Reverse GND
Cloud City
This past weekend has been a memorable one in the Bay Area. Again, the fog ninja, Alan, did his fog dance and delivered the goods. While driving up to SF, I knew it was going to be epic with the pea soup-like conditions passing through Daly City. I met up with Alan and off we went to the Marin Headlands. In addition, we met up with Yan before picking our shooting location. We first headed to Hawk Hill but saw the fog was a tad higher than we had expected and subsequently retreated back down to Slacker Hill.
Huffing and puffing the three of us conquered this uphill hike and were treated to a beautiful scene of low fog and glowing lights. Just as we arrived at the summit of Slacker Hill, the fog level lowered a bit and at times was low enough for the deck lights to be seen. The greatest part was when we waited for cars to drive up Conzelman Road for light streams on the right. With every car that came up, all of us would yell “Car! Car!” and quickly start exposing.
As it got brighter we noticed an immense sheet of high clouds towards the north. Just to our dismay the high clouds were too far north and were out of our frames. However, we enjoyed one of the most stunning sunrises I’ve ever seen in SF. It was all worth the lack of sleep.
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
Singh-Reverse GND