R. Keith Clontz
Winter Moonlight
Where might you find me making photographs at 12 AM?
Linville Gorge is one likely place
This is a moonlight view of the newly forming ice flow along the cliff face on Short Off Mountain at Linville Gorge. I hope it is a good sign that there will be a larger ice flow to come since it was very short lived last winter and this was one of the things I wanted to photograph most.
Thank you to my good friend Kenny Fleming for letting me know that the ice flow was forming. When I contacted Kenny tonight he was camping on the other side of the gorge, enduring the below freezing temperature and 30 mph winds. The wind gusts were pretty strong where I was too but I was able to make several images by holding the tripod firmly to the rocky cliff surface during the exposure, (with the camera strap slapping me in the face and my fingers almost too numb to press the shutter button) Oh well :-)
Winter Moonlight
Where might you find me making photographs at 12 AM?
Linville Gorge is one likely place
This is a moonlight view of the newly forming ice flow along the cliff face on Short Off Mountain at Linville Gorge. I hope it is a good sign that there will be a larger ice flow to come since it was very short lived last winter and this was one of the things I wanted to photograph most.
Thank you to my good friend Kenny Fleming for letting me know that the ice flow was forming. When I contacted Kenny tonight he was camping on the other side of the gorge, enduring the below freezing temperature and 30 mph winds. The wind gusts were pretty strong where I was too but I was able to make several images by holding the tripod firmly to the rocky cliff surface during the exposure, (with the camera strap slapping me in the face and my fingers almost too numb to press the shutter button) Oh well :-)