Subtlety of Steam on Soft Evening

We were on our way to the Fox Meadows Creamery for ice cream and coffee. I made a slight detour via Strasburg, thinking we might just catch the 5pm train returning.

As we approached Paradise Lane, we saw the train coming aross the cornfields. I pulled in and reached for my Nikon Z6.

Since the weather had been very warm and humid, we were running the air-conditioning in the car. When I stepped outside my lens immediately frosted over. So before I could make an exposure, I had to wipe the front element clean. Then I exposed this sequence of photos.

I’m pleased; these turned out well for hastily composed photos on a soft summer evening.

Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Nikkor Z-series zoom set to 200mm, f4.5 1/640 second, ISO 200. Image adjusted during post-processing for exposure, contrast and saturation using Adobe Lightroom.
Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Nikkor Z-series zoom set to 95mm, f4.5 1/800 second, ISO 200. Image adjusted during post-processing for exposure, contrast and saturation using Adobe Lightroom.
Focus set on the tabacco leaves in the foreground. Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Nikkor Z-series zoom set to 140mm, f14 1/60 second, ISO 200. Image adjusted during post-processing for exposure, contrast and saturation using Adobe Lightroom.