This is the last bit of light from the sun before it set behind heavy clouds and mountains. I loved the light shining across the grassy balds of the Roan Highlands. This was taken from on top of Round Bald, the first bald you get to after starting north on the Appalachian Trail from Carvers Gap.
I just got back in town from a weekend on Roan Mountain in east Tennessee. My son and I camped and hiked on a few miles of the Appalachian Trail. This is Friday’s sunset, looking east from Round Bald towards Jane Bald and Grassy Ridge. I absolutely love this part of Tennessee. The views are amazing and no picture I can take will do it justice. On the left is Tennessee, on the right is North Carolina. I’ll have more to post from these locations in the next few days…
The title says it all 🙂
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So how much longer can I continue to post photos from California? New people to this blog may think I’m a west coast photographer, so I may need to get out and shoot some good old fashioned Tennessee landscapes again soon.
This is photo is a shot of the famed Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. As we watched the sun shine onto large storm clouds in the east, a small rainbow appeared in the distance. This was taken the same evening as my other Yosemite sunset photo HERE
Looking up at the California Redwoods in Muir Woods, just outside of San Francisco
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I think this was the best view in that park (at least the areas that we drove through). All day long there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, finally they started to build and gave some added interest to the scene here. On the right is Bridalveil Falls (I think).
This is two horizontal photos stitched together, taken with the 100mm 2.8L lens. With the wide angle lens, everything seemed just too far away.
So this was my last chance to capture a sunset on the coast, and, as you can see, it didn’t work out. A saying my kids learned is “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit”, it’s a rhyme they picked up at the daycare. I know, I know, most of you are saying “Rhyme? That doesn’t rhyme” – well in Tennessee it does (You git what you git and don’t throw a fit)
So once again I scouted this location and decided to return at sunset. When I returned to the original spot I choose, the fog was so thick I couldn’t even see the lighthouse, much less the sun. So I moved closer, shot the fog and the waves for a little while and headed on to the motel.
I’m pretty happy with the shot, but I would have loved some sunset color… Oh well, maybe next time 🙂
Stay tuned, I’ll be posting more photos from various points along my 7 day road trip in California
Still heading up California State Route 1, we drove through Big Sur. It was a beautiful place, but very cloudy so we continued to Carmel. We spent the evening and the next day in Carmel/Monteray when the sun came out! Excited to see the sun for the first time in a couple days, I decided to head back to Pfiefer Beach in Big Sur and hope for an awesome sunset. Didn’t happen. As soon as we got there, the clouds rolled back in. I was still able to get a shot of this awesome beach that I liked, just not quite what I hoped for…
So day 5 took us back to the coast, south of San Francisco. We drove quite a bit on California State Route 1 when we came across Julia Pfiefer Burns State Park. It’s a beautiful spot with a waterfall that pours out onto the beach. Click Here to see a wider shot of the entire “lagoon”
This is looking up at a couple giant sequoia trees in Mariposa Grove, part of the Yosemite National Park. These huge trees are tough to photograph. For a better sense of scale, check this one out.
Details: This is a 7 exposure HDR, learn how I process my HDR images at www.sohdr.com
Southern Appalachian Spruce Fir – Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North CarolinaJune 13, 2017 - 8:27 pm
Blue Ridge Parkway Mile Post 19 – 20 Minute CliffJune 3, 2017 - 9:32 am
General Jackson – Charlottesville, VirginiaMay 30, 2017 - 8:40 pm
Frisco Pier – Cape Hatteras, North CarolinaMay 30, 2017 - 8:35 pm
Bodie Island Lighthouse and Milky Way – Nags Head, North CarolinaMay 30, 2017 - 8:30 pm
