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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — ¹/40 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Evening Mist in Rural Japan
( sort of )

We were driving around the very-rural countryside of Toyooka, Japan the other day at dusk, when the beauty of some hills rising out of the mist caught my eye, and I stopped to snap some pictures.

The first picture shows the slightest hint of the sunset glow still remains...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 27 mm — ¹/100 sec, f/7.1, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rice Field

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/250 sec, f/4, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Fading
layers of hills fading into the mist

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/1.4, ISO 4500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Deepening Dusk

I ended up chatting for a while with a farmer preparing his field for rice (it's his white truck in the center of the second photo). By the time I left, it was very dark, but the D700's low-light prowess brightens everything up. The lead photo is the last one I took.

Here's one near the end that I processed in Lightroom to give a feeling that matches the “layered” look that I remembered, but which didn't show up so well in the photos....

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/1.4, ISO 4500 — map & image data — nearby photos

I sub-captioned the first photo “(sort of)” because while I thought it was an evening mist at the time, I realized today that it was probably kosa, the very fine yellow sand that blows in from China in the spring, turning day into a thick hazy cloud. It was really strong all day today for the drive back, and now that I think about it, the evening “mist” the other day must have been the start of the dust.