For some reason, shooting cascades is really tough for me. Finding the right composition does not come easy. I shot many cascades in the Tremont area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that morning, several hours worth. And yet, I have only two to share. Once I would look at most of them on the computer screen, I didn’t like something about them. I guess I’ll just have to practice these more, and that means more trips to the mountains 🙂
Here is the other:
A single red leaf clings to a wet rock. The color in the water is reflected from the beautiful trees with golden leaves. A slightly long shutter speed was used to show motion in the water. Taken in the Tremont area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
So this past Tuesday I went to the Smokies. I only had one day to devote to fall color in east Tennessee so I left my house at 3am in order to be in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by sunrise. I arrived at this vantage point around 30 minutes before sunrise. This shot encompasses 3 of my favorite things to photograph – East Tennessee, Sunrise, and Autumn
This past Saturday I met up with a few local photographers again and headed out to the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge near Big Sandy or Paris, Tennessee
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It was a beautiful day and we saw a few bald eagles. They were out of the range of my 70-200 but still awesome to see!
The lead shot is one of the views we saw, looking out at the Kentucky Lake
Other shots from the day:
I thought this was so cool, the colors that showed up on the web were amazing!
Abstract of the Kentucky Lake
In the shot: Titus Bartos
I had never seen an armadillo before, there were TONS of them there!
Say “Cheeeeese”!
It’s definitely deer season at Radnor Lake. There are always lot’s of deer there but there seem to be an extra amount now. Here are a few more deer photos captured this week:
10 pointer!
This buck wasn’t going anywhere, he had is eye on a doe that was laying near the path.
Other shots from the week:
This one was part of an engagement session I did last Saturday at Radnor Lake
And that’s it for the week!
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I figured this was an appropriate lead shot this week as we enter November and get closer to Thanksgiving!
I’m posting late today because I got up early this morning to go to…… Radnor Lake! I met up with a few people from the Nashville Photography Meetup Group as well as a few people I met in the Radnor Lake Group on flickr. Lot’s of fun, and good to meet some more photographers. I’ll have those pictures up for next weeks post.
For this week I was only able to visit twice, Wednesday and Thursday. I didn’t get much Wednesday morning because shortly after I got on Otter Creek Road it started to rain on me. Here is what I got before the rains came:
The rest of my shots all came on Thursday. I took a half day off work because it was my sons birthday. I had a few hours to kill before he got home so I headed to the lake. Here is what I came away with on Thursday:
I know I take a lot of these type shots but I really like them!
The clouds starting rolling in right about the time I got to this overlook. They really made for a great lakescape.
One of the few times this lens ever comes off my camera!
I saw this guy sitting there so I would take a shot and then take a couple steps toward him, take another shot and then another couple steps. Just trying to see how close I could get. I think I could have gotten closer but some other hikers came up behind me and he ran off.
Not the best shot, but I had to put this up for the Brentwood Police Captain I was talking to. We were both watching the HUGE buck for a while. He was down in a ravine and never came closer to the path.
More turkeys
One of my favorites from the week….
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This week is all about the fall color at Radnor Lake. I’d say the color has peaked this week. There is mostly yellow, but also some bright reds and deep oranges. It’s a beautiful time to be walking the trails…
A couple more shots I wanted to share that don’t have to do with the fall color:
This is a single exposure (30 sec) with a Graduated neutral density filter. Not something I do often but wanted to try it “non-hdr”.
Also, a couple black and whites that don’t fit with the “Fall Color” theme:
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Last Saturday I met up with a few local photographers and headed down to Sewanee, Tennessee and the University of the South.
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We were in search of fall color but came across All Saints’ Chapel. It was an amazing building with beautiful stained glass windows and awesome architecture. The photos don’t even begin to represent just how incredible it was.
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Here are some others from the Campus of the University of the South:
Here is some fall color I got on the trip as well:
Not much to write about this week – I visited Radnor Lake on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I was very excited to spot this huge buck on Thursday at about mid-day. Here is another of the same buck crossing the hiking trail:
There’s another to check off the wish list! Now if only I could see a bald eagle I’d be just about done with that list!
Wednesday was an early morning trip:
Other miscellaneous shots from the week:
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What a tough week to pick a lead shot, I wanted to put all of these first! Tuesday and Wednesday morning were both stormy/rainy which made for some great HDR conditions. Here are some others from those two mornings:
It’s me 🙂
A couple of other non-hdr from Wednesday morning:
Who says turtles are slow!? This guy was moving quickly across the path
The sun was back out in full force on Thursday. I spent my entire lunch break there trying to capture a leaf in mid air falling from a tree. It took around 100 shots but I finally got this one:
Not exactly the composition I wanted but I am more than happy to settle for it! A very tough shot to get…
I went back Friday at lunch and just wanted to capture some fall color:
And that’s it for the week!
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