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Looking forward to some warmer temperatures (highs in the low 60s were predicted today), Carey and I ventured out at about 11am to Presque Isle. I threw my camera in the car with the 70-200 and the 24-70. When I get my bag, I'll likely just take everything. It was 50° in the garage, 42° outside, and about 34° at Presque Isle, which was enveloped in a massive, super-thick fog. I left the camera in the car and we began walking along the path. Just then a crew team emerged from the fog, cutting nearly silently through the still lake waters.

When we got back to the car, I got my camera out and waited for five minutes or so until the crew came back. I increased the contrast and pinched in the white and black points a little, cropped, and converted to monochrome because there was very little color anyway. Fog and haze will do a lot to "grey up" an image.

From there, we drove to Beach 6. Right as we approached the beach, I saw a bench sitting atop the entrance to the beach. Unfortunately I couldn't get an angle that didn't include a pesky tree. Contrast adjusted a little, cropped, and blue/cyan saturation bumped up just a bit, simultaneously taking down the luminance of blue and cyan.

Beyond the beach, the sand dunes (which, when covered with ice, are ice dunes of course!) loomed. I held back and took this picture of Carey walking forward. Contrast again adjusted, small crop made, and exposure bumped down a third stop (I'd forgotten to change my exposure compensation from the crew shots). The haze was thick on this side.

I passed a girl on the beach who, seeing my camera, said "I wish I had my camera. Out on the dunes it's so beautiful." I asked Carey if the girl had come from the dunes, about 70 yards from the edge of the beach, and she said yes. She pointed out a path and we started out.

I walked out, reached the end, and took a few pictures. In both, I again bumped the contrast a bit to try to get through the incredible haze. I also saturated and took down the luminance of the cyans and blues.

This shot was taken 90° to the right from the one above. The dunes will soon melt away and become the lake floor again, but for now and all winter, they reach rather impressive heights.

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