Photographer Radu Negru captures the view of London cloaked in thick fog. (Radu Negru)

London is famous for its thick fog that can cover the entire city in a gray haze and offer very little visibility. It is precisely on these foggy days that Romanian photographer Radu Negru loves photographing the city he lives in.

“I’ve always associated London with fog from watching classic BBC period dramas,” Radu Negru told weather.com. “[But it was only] when I was commuting early in the morning that I discovered the kind of London I was used to seeing on the TV screen: dark, moody, mysterious, atmospheric and full of silhouettes.”

To Negru, this is when the city is at its best, because he thinks the haze gives the city an ethereal quality, changing familiar scenes to give them an element of intrigue and fantasy.

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As iconic as this thick London fog may be, it isn’t actually that common of a phenomenon, occurring only in early spring or fall. It is also usually only an early morning occurrence. Negru said he plans for his foggy photo shoots in advance, checking the weather for days ahead of time just to make sure he is ready for when the phenomenon occurs.

“Unfortunately, there are only a few days when this kind of thick fog sets in early morning, [so] wake up late and you miss it,” he explained.

To see more of Radu Negru's photography, follow him on Instagram.

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