Landscape Photography & Resilience

Picture this; you've travelled thousands of miles to see the world famous Bryce Canyon, and it kinda looks like this.

Fog or a blinding white wall?

Because it does rain in the desert sometimes. Not just rain but fog too. Not wispy light fog, but a blinding wall of condensation that doesn't move. You might as well be taking photos of a featureless wall.

Like a scene from a horror movie.

And it's freezing. 6°C, and there's that icy rain pouring around you. There's no sign of the fog lifting. The bad news is, you've only got half a day here before driving to the Grand Canyon.

So what do you do? Stomp your feet and blame the weather? Use your hands to fan the fog away?

Or stand there, in the freezing rain for 6 hours and hope that the fog clears up for just 10 seconds to grab a single shot.

I chose to stand there, and the fog never lifted the whole time. There was no happy ending for this story.

Hang in there, don’t let it get to you. The beauty of landscape photography is that it’s always different every time. Make yourself a promise to come back one day, and try again. Who knows when you’ll be rewarded?