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The Tennessee Theater opened in 1928. Its Spanish-Moorish interior is richly decorated in an opulent fashion, with French, Italian, and Asian influences. It was restored in 2003-2005, and is in use nearly every week. The acoustics are fantastic, and in addition to the Knoxville Symphony, numerous shows and musical groups perform there every year. It's a pretty cool venue.
Lately, I've started to slowly go through some of the photos I took along the way to California in December of 2015 starting with the small batch shot between the DC to New Orleans leg of the journey. The first part of the trip was a little chaotic and Scotch and I had to make one last detour to the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals for a filing on the way out of town. It was the start of rush hour by the time I got back in and began the real journey. Rain and extremely slow moving traffic (what a surprise) had me wondering if I should just drive to my mom's hour about 2 hours away and try again in the morning. With no real plan other than going to Hollywood at some point, time wasn't as important though I really didn't want to spend hours trying to exit the city and waste money on a hotel so close to home.
When the traffic began to clear, I decided to continue on and into the night, finally stopping around 4am for a quick rest in Bristol, Virginia. I kept trying to push further but by that point, I was just concerned with finding a reasonably safe, dog friendly hotel and figured I'd get an early start the following morning. From there, we tried exploring a bit though I it was hard to find interesting areas off the beaten path that wouldn't take me too far out of the way. A month of shooting tucked away waterfalls in Maryland and Pennsylvania had me obsessed with them and I kept hoping a random road off the highway would lead somewhere interesting. For the most part, that was incorrect and with a completely blank sky, I didn't find much to shoot though I did explore for a few hours in the more rural parts of Tennessee since we got off the highway and headed towards the mountains off in the distance. It was certainly beautiful, just nothing exciting to photograph and as it got later and later, we continued on towards Knoxville which is where I had stayed in the past when I was helping my dad move some of his stuff from DC to New Orleans.
A quick google search from the phone had me intrigued by a place called Mead's Quarry and I also wanted to give Scotch the opportunity to go for a real walk on a trail or at least somewhere quiet and peaceful. The Ijam Nature center was a little confusing to find and but we finally found the quarry in the very late afternoon and it was quite a sight. I took scotch down the embankment to the water's edge and spent about 15 minutes trying to squeeze as much into 18mm as I could, including a few accidental panoramas I could stitch. This was a 2 shot horizontal panorama (and I'll eventually post a larger panorama as well) that shows the incredible patterns and reflections from the still waters. I guess this place is fairly popular for swimming and recreational activities in the summer but in the dead of winter, no one disturbed the water and only a few hikers/tourists were around.
I'll spare you the full wikipedia history, but Tennessee marble is actually a pink crystalline limestone used for buildings and monuments (including a few places in DC near the courthouse we began our trip from) though interest in the material declined heavily after WWII when much cheaper options became available and popular. I'm glad I revisited the group of shots from here and discovered a few of the better frames matched for panoramas (this was WELL before I ever considered actively trying them) and also happy that my current editing style provided much more favorable results than when I first reviewed these shots over a year ago. We didn't stay here long and stopped at a hotel in Meridian, Mississippi for the night before arriving in New Orleans by dinner time the following day.
LOCATION
Mead's Quarry
Ijams Nature Center
Knoxville, Tennessee
December 15th, 2015
SETTINGS
2 frame horizontal panorama
18mm
ISO 100
f/14
0.3 seconds
CPL
In June of 1993 I made a trip out to Colorado to scout out a place to live for my upcoming job transfer. I decided to drive from my home in Apple Valley, CA to Colorado Springs railfanning along the way. One place I stopped was the Craig Branch and then Tennessee Pass. A few days before I took this photo I had photographed the EMD SD70M Demo units on a loaded coal train in Craig and followed it to Denver. I never expected to see them on Tennessee Pass a few days later. Yet here they are ar Pando climbing the grade. This is the first of 4 shots.
On a splendid late spring afternoon an empty rail train symboled W018-12 makes its way north near MP 275.9 on CSXT's KD Sub (ex Louisville and Nashville mainline) crossing the Tennessee River on the 1051 ft. long camel back truss bridge built in 1934 and modified and rebuilt in 1966.
A nice looking slug set is in charge with mother unit CSXT 6409 (EMD GP40-2 blt. Jan. 1978 as CO 4271 in Chessie System paint) and slug CSXT 2226 (rebuilt from an EMD GP30 originally blt. Oct. 1962 as BO 6909). Alas since the date of this photo the slug has been sold to LTEX with a future unknown.
At the time I was on business to Atlanta and took the opportunity to railfan in a part of the world I'd never visited before. It was much different than Alaska but certainly had its own special appeal...
Knoxville, Tennessee
Sunday June 14, 2008
A popular cascade known as the "Pancake Stack" at trailside right on the ascent to the waterfall....Trail 189 to Margarette Falls, Greenville, Tennessee, Cherokee National Forest
According to Audubon's field guide: This bird is found in Tennessee only briefly, during spring and fall migration; but there is no point in giving it a more descriptive name, because the bird itself is nondescript. The male makes up for his plain appearance with a strident staccato song, surprisingly loud for the size of the bird. Nesting in northern forests, the Tennessee Warbler goes through population cycles: it often becomes very numerous during population explosions of the spruce budworm, a favored food. I personally have encountered this species only once on our property. This one was looking for insects on the blooming century plant.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in May 2022
After Rio Grande days, a visit was made in SP days to Tennessee Pass in 1996. Another coal drag lugs itself into the tunnel at the summit with more modern AC4400s, compared to Tunnel Motor days.
Chattanooga,Tennessee-- A tribute located in downtown Chattanooga for the TVA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority
This one is for Denise, she asked for more warblers while waiting for the birds to show up.
Tennessee warbler just above our little water feature. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
Leiothlypis peregrina.
The Tennessee Warbler is a common nectar "thief" on its wintering grounds in tropical forests. Most nectar-eating birds, bats, and insects probe a flower from the front to get the nectar, spreading pollen on their faces in the process. But Tennessee warblers pierce the flower tube at the base, lapping up the nectar without helping pollinate the flower.