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There is something very special about moody pictures. They evoke emotional responses from us, and there is a beautiful and magical quality about them. Pictures with mood are often low in contrast, somewhat dark, and sometimes monochromatic. There are many types of circumstances that create moody pictures: candlelight, fog, deep overcast, certain lighting situations at night, a snowstorm.

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The photographs of the forest enshrouded in fog (1) and the snowstorm in St. Louis (2), although they are very different from one another, both have a moody quality about them. The late-night shot in Venice, Italy (3) is also very moody. All three of these shots have different lighting and different color, but what they have in common is mood.

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One of my favorite times to take pictures in nature is when a thick fog descends on the land. This creates the most amazing mood of all. In the subdivision where I live in Tennessee, I often see fog in the early morning and I race outside and shoot until it’s gone. Before the sun rises, the colors are almost entirely monochromatic, as in 4. And with an eastern glow showing through the fog, the mixture of colors is stunning, as you can see in 5. The Cinque Terre coastline in Italy was enshrouded in fog when I was there, and I was able to capture the same kind of ethereal, dream-like quality (6).

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