There are so many things I’d never experienced before living on the West Coast.  In Florida, I don’t think I ever experienced “marine layer“, these air masses create the most beautiful foggy formations above the coastal waters.  Of course, everyone loves bright, clear skies, but there is a mysterious beauty to life seen through a fogged lens.  In his Steam Portraits series, photographer David Ryle creates these sensitive captures of portraits seen through or looking through a curtain of steam.

 

We all have our days when it feels like we’re moving through the fog.  Bogged down, without a clear vision of the road ahead.  What’s so lovely about these portraits is that although the subjects are seen gazing through the vapor, in most cases much of the haze is already depleted.  There is something incredibly hopeful in that– to know that although we may be temporarily socked in, slowly, surely, the fog will lift and all will be revealed.

To see more of David Ryle‘s work, please visit his website.

 

All images via the artist’s website.  Artist found via I Need a Guide.