North Sea mornings
Three weeks of 5 a.m. alarms on the dunes near Bergen aan Zee, and the one morning the fog cooperated.
Coastal fog is unpredictable. Most mornings it either burned off before sunrise or never lifted at all. I kept going back to the same dune path with the same lens, which turned out to be the point: by the third week I knew exactly where the light would fall.
Gear
One body, a 35mm prime and a cheap carbon tripod. A lens hood matters more than anything else here — salt spray finds the front element in minutes.
Settings
ISO 100, f/8, between 1/30 and 1/125 depending on the fog. I bracket three frames and almost always keep the darkest one.