Dundry In The Fog

High above South Bristol is Dundry, the main hill that takes you up is windy and unrelentingly sleep. It’s been a while, but the last time I rode up it on my bike, I genuinely thought I was going to be sick. In the winter time it seems to have it’s own climate, when it rains it seems to stay wet and misty up there forever, and when it’s foggy it rolls in slowly and lingers long after it’s cleared just down the hill in Bristol.

I’ve been here quite a few times before in the fog so I didn’t want to just retread previous routes this time, as it’s easy to follow a familiar path, and end up taking the same photos as that I’ve taken before.

It’s easy to go straight for the obvious in the fog - and I’m not saying I haven’t done this again - but this time I did at least try to find something a little more interesting. There is a solitary tree in the field right at the start of the path, and it took every ounce of willpower to resist getting another photo of it, lined up in the centre of the frame surrounded by negative space.

Now I have still taken that photo, but this time it was a different more interesting looking tree, which I consider as progress.

I tend to overthink these things, so with that in mind I needed to remind myself that I’m taking photos for fun, this is just a hobby and it’s not meant to be serious, and if some of these photos are a bit basic, then who cares at the end of the day?