So, on this particular morning in Midland, Texas, the sun and fog battled. The predawn hours were basically clear. But with the rising of the sun a fog appeared out of nowhere (due to a change in temperature perhaps?). But whatever the reason, wherever I pointed the camera there was a thickening fog.
But after several minutes the sun seemed to beat back most of the fog and rose above the grayish-white, ghostly scene. The image above was captured during that resurgence of the sun. Here it is depicted behind an oil well that I had initially stopped to photograph in the first place.
The original image is a Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) with a file data size of 35 megabytes (MB).
For display on this web site the TIFF was duplicated and the duplicate re-formatted as a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG/JPEG) image with a file data size of 6.65 MB. To approximate detail visible at the time of capture the image was sharpened as necessary and resampled via the Photoshop Bicubic Sharpen algorithm. The re-sampling increases the image resolution from 300 Dots Per Square Inch (DPI) to 360 DPI.
Unless otherwise noted the image was corrected to offset color shift and balance. This restores black (shadows), white (highlights) and neutral gray (neutral mid-tones).
• An unnumbered image is the only one of the subject matter.
• A number corresponds to the sequential order in a subject-matter-related sequence.
• The letter “B” indicates color correction to approximate what was visible when the image was captured.
• The letter “C” indicates enhancement beyond an approximation of what was visible at the time of capture.