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It's very early, a little after 6:00 AM and I set out on my daily walk. It's a foggy dawn, like almost a third of the sunrises in this small town nestled between mountains in the north of Venezuela...

^{55 mm | 1/640s | f/7.1 | ISO 320}

^{98 mm | 1/320s | f/6.3 | ISO 320}

Around my neck I wear my old and heavy Nikon D7000 with an AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR zoom lens as old as it is... Not perhaps the best choice for a cloudy morning, but I felt lazy to change the lens for a brighter one, so I opted to make do with this one. After all, I boast that I enjoy taking photos in the face of technical limits and adverse conditions.

^{55 mm | 1/200s | f/5.6 | ISO 320}

^{62 mm | 1/640s | f/4.5 | ISO 320}

I turn away from the streets of the village and into the country roads that lead to a small valley in the south. As is often the case on cloudy mornings, the landscape is eloquent, sometimes simple, and there are always little things happening that are worth photographing. The air is warm, almost hot. This is due to recent changes in the climate, temperatures, here used to be lower. But contrary to what you might think, fog still appears even more frequently than in previous years.

^{62 mm | 1/800s | f/5 | ISO 320}

^{55 mm | 1/2000s | f/5 | ISO 320}

^{240 mm | 1/1000s | f/7.1 | ISO 320}

The luminosity is not constant, the density of the fog seems to vary randomly. I decide to use my camera in semi-automatic aperture mode (A), select a low ISO and keep constantly dealing with apertures, white temperatures and trying to have decent shutter speeds to avoid shaky images.

^{55 mm | 1/3200s | f/7.1 | ISO 320}

^{55 mm | 1/1600s | f/7.1 | ISO 320}

Obviously I try to do my best to manage each photo to achieve the best result. However, as most of the time, I take all the shots in RAW format so that I have a good margin of manoeuvre later on to correct what I need to. After all, fog is beautiful, but it plays tricks on photographers who often don't take all the necessary precautions. In this environment the light comes and goes all the time and details as small as shooting to the east or west can easily force you to change shooting parameters.

^{116 mm | 1/2500s | f/7.1 | ISO 320}

^{165 mm | 1/1600s | f/7.1 | ISO 320}

There are a few people on these roads, most of them know me and simply pass me by after mumbling a brief greeting. For them this is the way to their jobs, for me it is a universe full of almost infinite visual possibilities. So, despite being in the same place as these people, I wander in a different and ephemeral world, for it will disappear shortly when the sun warms and the fog evaporates...

^{300 mm | 1/2500s | f/7.1 | ISO 250}

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Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!

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_{ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The pictures are then exported to JPG format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3.}

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Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.