(Credit: Mark Mervai Photography)

“It became a passion when I saw Budapest on a foggy day in front of me. The beauty of the city together with the fog overwhelmed me,” photographer Mark Mervai told weather.com. Based in Budapest, Hungary, Mervai has been “fog-hunting” and capturing eerily beautiful photographs of fog since 2010.

“There are just a couple of mornings on which the fog and every other condition is so perfect and beautiful, so it [took] a long time to get this series together,” Mervai said.

His series has a sense of quiet drama, showing cities and their architecture peeking through a soft blanket of fog.

To do what Mervai does—and to do it well—one must make weather conditions a priority. “I’m looking [at] the Hungarian weather pages,” he said. “When they predict some fog for the next morning, I wake up very early and have a look out of my window and, of course, a look at some live cams around the Danube.”

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Once Mervai knows the forecast for the day, he heads out in the early morning hours or a bit after sunrise to visually freeze the fog coming over the city. His favorite so far? A photograph with the liberty bridge "getting lost in the fog at sunrise."

"I was late and afraid that I [wouldn't] take [a] good picture, but when I arrived on the top of the [Gellert Mountain], the fog was flying a bit away from the Danube and [falling] down, so the sun [came] out and the perfect moment was here," Mervai said. “It was like nature was waiting for me like a model to pose for my camera, showing its best site. It was an unbelievable and emotional moment.”

Every season in Budapest has its own beauty and individuality, Mervai said, but the beauty is not everlasting. Mervai hopes that his photographs can inspire people to focus on nature’s role in our everyday lives.

“I hope people saw the beauty which is given by nature and which we are destroying day by day with our way of life,” Mervai said. “Nature is true, sensitive and beautiful at the same time. We should care more about it.”

To see more of Mervai's fog photographs, visit his.