Fog in the Vale of Clwyd

Vale of Clwyd Fog #1

The story behind this image

Easter Sunday 2015 proved to be a wonderful day.

Not only were we celebrating Christ's resurrection, but also the weather was doing some very strange and wonderful things.

All day long, along the North Wales coast and inland in the low lying Vale of Clwyd an atmospheric inversion layer had trapped a bank of sea fog under its invisible barrier.

My wife Liz and I had planned a trip to the seaside on Sunday afternoon, but as we descended towards the beach at Talacre we entered into the fog bank and soon decided that the coast was a bad idea.

Instead we headed for higher ground, hopefully to get above the fog and be able to look down onto its billowing waves.

The obvious spot to head to was the Pen Barras car park, in a saddle formed between the peaks of Foel Ffenli and Moel Famau and overlooking the Vale of Clwyd below.

Well, we weren't disappointed!

Rolling bolow us, lit by the setting sun, was a veritable sea of fog, stretching all the way from the western flanks of the Clwydian range on which we stood to the far distant foothills of Snowdonia.

Needing a bit more altitude for a better photographic composition, we scrambled along Offa's Dyke until we were about halfway up the side of Foel Ffenli which gave this stunning view just as the sun was setting.

I actually took many hundreds of photos from this spot (of which this is one) to make my time lapse video Sunset and Fog #1, but the scene as so lovely and unusual that I wanted to have a still image of it as well.

Image data

Filename - vale of clwyd fog 01.jpg

Camera - Canon 6D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm

Exposure - 1sec @ f16, ISO100

Location - Vale of Clwyd, Wales

This image - 800x450px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom

Comments - Tripod and remote release used to prevent camera movement.