Reaching new heights – Clingman’s Dome
Over 11 million people can’t be wrong! That’s how many people visited the Great Smokey National Park in 2016. Only the Blue Ridge Parkway (close by the Smokies) and the Golden Gate National Recreational Area receive a higher number of visitors. The Smokies cover a…
Photo Opportunities in Smokies # 3
This is the last post in the Tremont series. At the end of the Tremont road that goes past the Great Smoky Mountains Institute there is a trail that leads up to Lynn Camp. It is an old logging road and is an easy walk….
Photo Opportunities in the Smokies #2
Last week I posted the first of a series of blogposts (I hope) on the various parts of the Smokies. This week I continued exploring the same stretch of the Little River in the Tremont area. The road to this stretch is found about of…
Photographing the Smoky Mountains – Tremont
This is the first of, I hope, many posts about this subject. I am going to make a concerted effort to photograph my backyard – the Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway. I am going to use this blog to document what I do….
Blue Ridge Parkway in Autumn
Sometimes we don’t spend enough time in our own backyard. I keep wanting to spend more time in Smokies during the Fall and I keep failing at my goal. I did get out for a day last year with a buddy and we traveled a…
The Superabundance of the Smokies
It is amazing how often, as a photographer, you ignore your backyard. I live 90 minutes from the heart of the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee and yet I go so seldom. Most of my photographs are from exotic (to me at least) parts of the…
Fall in the Smokies
It is amazing how quickly the leaves can turn. I went up to the Smokies just over a week ago when I got back from Indonesia. But the leaves were really disappointing. Then on Thursday I was in a meeting with a colleague and I…