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Fog is a part of being on the shore, especially in the morning hours before the sun has a chance to burn it off. With the recent warmer weather, there was some fairly dense fog at the southern end of the Thames River this morning. I figured I might be able to incorporate the low clouds into a shot or two while out on my daily walk. It would work for a couple, but not exactly in a way I had envisioned.<\/p>\n
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Driving into work this morning, I was hoping that the layer of fog would reach at least as far north as Red Top in Ledyard. There were a few angles I thought would work with a thick fog hanging over the water. Looking out the office window this morning, I thought it may just work out. So once it came time for my walk, I headed north aiming for the Mill Cove & Red Top area. But by the time I got north of the Sub Base, the fog had lifted, and only a clear view of the tracks was left. So it was time to switch to plan B.<\/p>\n
What’s plan B you ask? At the time I had no idea. So I walked around a bit – I had a good 10 minutes before Providecne & Worcester train NR-2 arrived in the area. A good way to kill two birds with one stone – get my walk in and scout out some angles. One angle struck my eye, so I changed the telephoto to the wide angle lens and sized things up. Yeah, it should work. A bit later, NR-2 showed up, and this was the resulting shot:<\/p>\n
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As the train rolled past, another shot caught my eye – one with a blooming tree across the water.<\/p>\n
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Not too bad – not exactly what I had wanted, but still workable. Satisfied, I headed for the car and started driving back.<\/p>\n
On the way, NR-2 arrived in Fairview yard, and was doing some switching as I passed by them. Looking to the right, I noticed that the Thames River bridge was partially enveloped in fog. Hmmm, that may make a pretty neat shot from the south side of it. So I headed there and snapped this one – kinda titled Girders in the Mist<\/em><\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2982]\n As I climbed back in the car, NR-2 was asking the Amtrak Shore Line dispatcher if they could head over to the NECR yard in New London in about 5 minutes. OK, that would work – I could get down a bit further south and get a good shot of the train crossing the bridge. I got there a couple minutes ahead of the train, and grabbed these shots. Too bad part of the fog cloud lifted.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2981] [cpg_imagefixthumb:2980] [cpg_imagefixthumb:2979] [cpg_imagefixthumb:2978]\n As the train cleared, a gentleman approached me asking if I was a railfan. Well, we proceeded to talk for a bit as NR-2 sounded for the New London crossings across the river – he was originally from the area, then moved to Maryland and is back in town because his daughter is having a baby. A minute or so later, another horn pierced the fog – this time it sounded like an eastbound Acela. Yep, it sure was, and this time the fog rolled back in, so I grabbed a couple shots of the train heading across the Thames.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2977] [cpg_imagefixthumb:2976]\n We talked a bit more, then I had to head back. Another day of some different shots – not exactly what I had in mind, but still I think they worked out for the best.<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! Fog is a part of being on the shore, especially in the morning hours before the sun has a chance to burn it off. With the recent warmer weather, there was some fairly dense fog at the southern end of the Thames River this morning. I figured I might be able to incorporate the low […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,13,14,118,68,21,25,22,8,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-acela","8":"tag-amtrak","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-fog","11":"tag-groton","12":"tag-ledyard","13":"tag-mill-cove","14":"tag-nr-2","15":"tag-providence-worcester","16":"tag-thames-river","17":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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