This here’s a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
Two young lovers with nothin’ better to do
Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose

Wait… that’s a song, not my story. My story goes like this…

Come home from work and start the process of closing the pool. First time doing it without any help from the kids. Actually goes better than I anticipated. I changed the method of attaching the winter cover to utilize weighted gallon jugs in place of the wire cable. I think it is going to provide better protection from the wind. We’ll see…

End up working for two hours but I get everything done in one evening. Dinner is waiting when I come in the house which is great since I didn’t have to cook it. Gobble my food down quickly, jump in the shower and then head out with the camera because the sun is setting through some haze which is calling my name.

I drive over to my favorite state park to catch the last few minutes of light over the lake. Well, that was the plan anyway. Today was an abnormally hot and humid day for September in Upstate NY. We reached 90 degrees and very high humidity. I opted to run the air conditioner in the car on the 10 minute drive over to the lake. It was just enough to cool down my camera and lens so that when I walked down to the beach the lens had fogged over.  Everything I needed to clear the lens was back in the camera bag in the car.

The sad part is this isn’t the first time I have done this… hopefully next time I’ll remember this lesson. Here is the sunset through the condensation on the lens.

Lens Haze
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/8s, 28mm, f/18, ISO 100