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This farm is at the base of a mountain that the Appalachian Trail crosses at its summit.
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Clara and I drove 50 miles through a twisting gorge in the dark and through a very dense fog to reach this spot. The lake was flooding and this was taken just before sunrise. I know the water looks like snow, but it isn't. She liked this so much we will put a large print on our living room wall.
Another example of how Clara graces my life.
My 109th image published in PhotoVogue Italia
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Composite image of 15 meteors viewed in about 300 minutes of exposures after the moon set. Moonlight was used to illuminate the landscape beforehand. Photographed from Round Bald, 5,800' elev. from Appalachian Trail on North Carolina/Tennessee border, between Roan High Knob and Grassy Ridge Bald.
Ceasars Head, South Carolina, USA, after sunrise in autumn. This viewpoint (which is basically a roadside parking lot with a lame visitor center) is officially only open at 9AM, after waking up at 4AM in Asheville, North Carolina, I found the gates to the parking area closed, so I parked along the roadside and shot some photos, as I was leaving I got yelled at by very belligerent park rangers as if I committed a treasonous crime, in the end they let me go without paying a fine, or even the regular entrance fee, but please, WHY is a roadside viewpoint even CLOSED at any hour in the first place? Ridiculous......
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Much of the Appalachian Trail that winds through Pennsylvania is moderately dangerous littered with rocks of all sizes. It may take over an hour to go one mile.
One location I've always wanted to get for years is the overpass west of Winchester, Ohio off Route 32. Getting anything running this far east is quite an ordeal, but getting a westbound in good light is next to impossible. Hopefully with the new gravel business on the east end, shots like this can be easier to get.
There are few places as magical as Springtime in the mountains of Appalachia, such was the case this past Friday when Norfolk Southern saw fit to operate train 188 over "the Pokey" with a strange visitor on the point. UP 1995 is one of six Heritage paint SD70ACes, paying homage to the late, great Chicago & Northwestern Railway. I've caught all twenty of Norfolk Southern's heritage units in the wild, but heretofore I'd only caught one of UP's; the Southern Pacific. Thanks to the birdies for digging up the necessary Intel to go after the CNW heritage unit, as cell service is minimal at best once you get west of Bluefield on the former N&W Pocahontas Division mainline. This would be my second photo location, as I started in Iaeger where they acquired a rear-end pusher, of train 188 and at this point the massive twenty-thousand ton train has dropped speed substantially as it does battle with the famed Elkhorn Grade. The twin bores at Huger are personal favorites of mine and the colors of Spring did not disappoint in the evening after the area was pounded with rain for much of the afternoon.
An early morning scene from the Rock Castle Gorge trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County VA
Here is Hwy 107 heading southbound from Cashiers, North Carolina into Mountain Rest, South Carolina...In late October through November, deep, foggy, vaporous conditions such as this may suddenly appear at all times of the day and night across these ridgelines. When I stopped to make this quick phone shot, it was 3:00 - 4:00 in the afternoon. The fog descends over and across the roadways and down into the deep, steep gorges blanketing the streams, creeks and waterfalls, At times, it was so dense, I could barely see the centerlines in the roadway as I was driving back down into South Carolina.
Tucked deep in the hills of eastern Kentucky, the C&O era cantilever at Dawkins lights a clear for C501, one of countless loads of coal the Big Sandy has been host to.
The Civilian Conservation Corp created this lake in the 1930's. Part of the 63,000 acre state forest and called "the Little Smokies of Ohio." Very rural Appalachian area with beautiful scenery.
Gibson Bottoms, Mainspring Conservation Trust, Macon County NC
590nm IR-converted Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-A 1:2.8 24mm
Iridient Developer
Affinity Photo
It's Autumn in the Shenandoah Valley as Norfolk Southern's 12Z rumbles North into Arcadia, Virginia. In about 25 miles, 12Z will grab the siding in Buena Vista for a meet with Southbound 15T.
A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across ridges present at the Crescent Rock Overlook. This is in Shenandoah National Park along the Skyline Drive. My focus in composing this image was the sunset lights present in the skies with the colors varying from reds to purples. I therefore decided to angle my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera downward, bringing the horizon lower into the image. I still liked the nearby ridges and how they some foreground interest but kept them more in shadows to keep more focus on the lights and colors in the skies above.
Located on a northern slope of Ohio's Brush Creek State Forest off Coffee Hollow Road on Tener Mountain.. This area being logged by Sissel Logging out of West Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Cades Cove Tennessee