I made a photo-trip to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park this weekend. It’s hot there, much like it’s been here, and people were trying to get away this weekend — campgrounds all had full signs up.
However, these wonderful clouds over the mountains were in no small part a result of that very heat and so for that I’m grateful.
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“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” —George Bernard Shaw Isn’t the goal to enjoy creating compelling images? When I first picked up a camera many years ago, I was highly focused on gear and technical aspects. I…
Putting together my selection of favorite photos for 2012 set in motion thoughts of where I’ll like my photography take me in 2013 — action and equal reaction.
A piece of advice I’ve heard so often as a key to success is finding a niche and sticking with it until you become “an expert” in it. Yet in photography, in this blog and even in my life I’ve always run counter to that advice. I fear I tend to generalize without reaching great depth in any one area.
The Smoky Mountains is an awesome place to visit. I made my first and only trip to spend a week there in October of 2003. Loved it. I sure do need to make another visit.
Monte, yes, it is a wonderful place to visit and a very popular one. It gets quite crowded during summer vacations.
I would love to get there one day, this picture is how I imagine it.
It’s well worth the time and travel, Don. It has an ageless feel and beauty to it and I’ve always felt a trip there “recharges my inner batteries.” ;-)
Fine layers and aerial perspective you present here. I love these nuances – good (for me) that you did not increase the contrast in postprocessing. It would probably have changed the mood of this afternoon image very much.
Markus, thank you. Certainly “over-doing” the contract would be an injustice to the mood of this scene. The Smokey Mountains are known for a natural haze which gives a softness when viewing their panorama.
A wonderful image. This is one of many places on my list of places to see!
Steve, thanks, and I believe you would probably really enjoy them.