Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: fog

I can't remember exactly where I took this shot, whether in Prague, Podebrady, or someplace in between, but mostly it was just an attempt at getting an arty shot of a CD mainline in the fog.

Therefore.....given that my other shot is hard to distinguish from a black and white photo, I made this version black and white. I think that in the end it's the better photo, although I could be mistaken.

The Corinthia Towers hotel is so close to the Metro that it's almost integrated with it. I saw the opportunity to compose this shot with the flagpoles, but now that I have the image in my computer I'm noticing that the fog was really, really thick. It's so dominant in this photo, in fact, that it takes a few seconds to tell if it's color or black and white.

I liked the Fall scene that I spotted from the Metro station so much on this particular day that I got off the train. The fog kills some of it, unfortunately, made more unfortunate by the fact that it actually made the scene more impressive in real life, adding to the massive scale of Nuselsky Most.

Admittedly the detail isn't baroque, but C.U.T. does represent Art Deco and Neo-Classical sort of combined into one in a very beautiful way, at least in my opinion. Of course, if you've seen the frescoes inside the building, then maybe you'd beg to differ with my opinion about it not matching baroque buildings.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that my favourite series of architectural shots I ever took in the United States were taken of a railroad station. Not only am I a railfan, but in the U.S., few other buildings except for post offices and government buildings were built to quite the same spectacular standards, with the exception, perhaps, of some university buildings and churches. This amazing fog-enshrouded tower is Cleveland Union Terminal, or Tower City as it's now known, originally built in 1930 for the New York Central Railroad. Wow... When I first saw it, I was astonished to know that it still existed, as I had only seen it in old photos, and as everyone knows, the U.S. has an unpleasant habit of destroying its most beautiful buildings in favor of strip malls and parking lots. Not this one, though.

C.U.T. is so huge, at 216 meters (708 feet) in height (not to mention its unusually large footprint for even such a tall building), that when it was built it was the second tallest building in the world, and the tallest building outside of New York City until 1967. This would undoubtably also make it the tallest railroad station in the world, as I'm absolutely positive that no other station in the world could even come close. It's so tall that from the street it's impossible to see the top, especially on a foggy day like this one, and the sensation of looking straight up absolutely blows away the view of York Minster that I have elsewhere on this site. If you ever want to see the most amazingly, eye-wateringly spectacular railroad station in the United States, this one would definitely have a lot to recommend it over New York's Grand Central Terminal or Washington's Union Station. I've seen both of them, and although I would rank Washington Union very highly too, it's far more common in its design, even if it's still huge. GCT is surprisingly mundane in comparison with either Washington or C.U.T., and holds its ranking as "world's biggest railroad station" only because of its extensive system of underground tunnels. Aboveground, it doesn't even come remotely close to C.U.T. in any respect whatsoever, at least in my opinion. :-)

I took this from the top of Knob Hill in San Francisco, on my first (and for the moment only) trip to California. What's most striking about this photo to me is not so much the view (the detail is limited by the small size of the print I scanned AND the crude camera), but the massive low-lying cloud layer and fog which was enveloping S.F. on this very early morning. It was like this every morning, and people say that it's normal out there.

Here's a shot taken slightly later, as the fog began to clear, which gives a much prettier view of the city itself, of course.

This is more like Picture 1, but it has better composition, I think, incorporating the tourist facilities like a brochure. :-) Actually, at a normal time of day, and not super-early in the morning as here, it would probably be much more crowded, especially with cars, and not as pretty.