It looks windy but actually that is an illusion it really wasn't. When it gets this cold (below -35c typically) the water droplets in car exhaust, chimneys and so on causes a fog of these frozen water vapour. Because it's water vapour it drops close to the ground so even the slightest wind pushes this fog down making it look like a strong wind is blowing.
cwebster wrote:
Sorry, this doesn't say "cold" to me, as a west coaster.
<Chas>
I don't understand why being from the west coast makes you say that?
Are you refering to the ice fog looking like regular fog? If so I guess I assumed the viewer would be able to tell the uniqueness of ice fog and what it looks like. I do suppose most would never have seen it.
geofan wrote:
I don't understand why being from the west coast makes you say that?
Are you refering to the ice fog looking like regular fog? If so I guess I assumed the viewer would be able to tell the uniqueness of ice fog and what it looks like. I do suppose most would never have seen it.
I'm a west coaster too, and it doesn't really say cold to me either. I wouldn't have known what it was without the location and description. I've never heard of ice fog, so it just wouldn't click with me no matter how recognizeable it may be. OTOH, just saying Yellowknife screams cold to me.
btw, just because I don't recognize it as "cold" doesn't take away from the image. I like it quite a bit.
Edit: I guess it wouldn't hurt to say what about it I like. I like the glow of the lights, the aura hanging over the town above the fog bank. That is reminiscent of winter to me. I love the few bright stars fighting to be seen despite the bright and illumination of the fog bank from the town. It gives the sense that if one could only get above the fog glow, one would see a spectacularly clear night sky.
Though I know nothing about it now, I hear that sometime in the next couple of years (2011 or 2012), will be a solar maximum. I'm hoping to get up that way to see the aurora.
geofan wrote:
I don't understand why being from the west coast makes you say that?
Are you refering to the ice fog looking like regular fog? If so I guess I assumed the viewer would be able to tell the uniqueness of ice fog and what it looks like. I do suppose most would never have seen it.
Indeed, I had no idea what was being shown was ice fog, but the large expanse of darkness with the city in fog in the center doesn't say "cold" either.
Being from the west coast means I've never seen ice fog, black ice, ice storms, nor several related weather phenomena. Therefore I'm unable to identify those things on sight, nor associate their image with any particular physical sensations.
cwebster wrote:
Indeed, I had no idea what was being shown was ice fog, but the large expanse of darkness with the city in fog in the center doesn't say "cold" either.
Being from the west coast means I've never seen ice fog, black ice, ice storms, nor several related weather phenomena. Therefore I'm unable to identify those things on sight, nor associate their image with any particular physical sensations.
<Chas>
Fair enough. Perhaps if the picture had less black expanse and more ice and snow like this picture?
Perhaps you should have titled your beautiful photographs "frozen pollution". I've seen pollution in the summer, but never like this. I really like both of your photos!
I like the second one much better, though the f/g is still pretty dim. Snow says "cold" to me, and the inclusion would tip me that something cold is going on.
