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Several days of continuous rain led to very high flow rates over Spruce Flats Falls in the Tremont area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN. Even though the water removed a lot of interesting foreground, the warms tones from the mud added another dimension to the image. I've never worked so hard for pictures as I did here, for several reasons. First, my camera started acting very strange the day before at Black Balsam Knob (almost no buttons working, the camera would take a picture when it was turned on, etc.). I think humidity got inside the body during a wet night in the tent. Thankfully, after taking off the lens and removing the battery/memory card, the camera dried out somewhat (still quirky) to a functioning state. To be careful, I held an umbrella over the camera during this particular shoot to keep off the light rain. Holding the umbrella in one hand and manipulating the camera/tripod with the other is hard work!
Spruce Flats Falls isn't marked on a lot of maps of the park for some reason. Maybe it's because the Great Smoky Mountain Institute often uses the falls for photography workshops? I'm not sure. But anyway, here's the directions to the falls: Park in the parking lot next to the Institute in the Tremont area. Follow the signs for Lumberjack Gap Trail up a small gravel road to some more buildings. On the left side the trail continues up, and a side trail marked 'Falls' diverges up and to the right. The trail climbs over a small ridge and down to the falls (about a mile in length, I would say). Hope this helps some of you find the falls, since the park doesn't make it easy.
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One of the Copley Mesas, locally called the Copley Flat Tops. This one isn't very flat on top, at least at this end. A little cloud in the sky. Processed in Lightroom, Tamron lens.
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone - somebody must change
You are the reason I’ve been waiting so long - somebody holds the key
Well, I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time
And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home
Come down on your own and leave your body alone - somebody must change
You are the reason I’ve been waiting all these years - somebody holds the key
Well, I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time
And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home...
Steve Winwood
These Eastern grey squirrels can flat out run straight up and down tall southern pine trees. They are one of the few mammals that can descend a tree head first. They accomplish this feat by turning their back feet around allowing them a better grip.
Other view of the famous flatiron building.
Lens: Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 (click to see all my photos with this lens)
1/100s f/7.1 14mm ISO 100
The salt flats off the Amboy road were covered with water for about a month. It wasn't deep, but was just enough to provide a wonderful mirror-effect.
If it was flat, it wasn't square. If it was square, it wasn't flat. By the time it was both flat AND square, it was too small. Scrap it, start again.
The Flat Iron Building on Torsgatan in Stockholm was the winner of the Concrete Retail Industry's Architecture Award 2010.
Architect: Inga Varg.
Taken for: Flickr Lounge ~ Monopoly Tokens
This rusty old flat iron most certainly did not iron these tablecloths!
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Some kind of statue, shot inside Flower Dome, one of the conservatories in Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
For the Fameshed Bday Event
The Lacey shoes... flat, for your casual days.
Fit: MyFeet, Slink Flat, Belleza Venus, Maitreya Lara, TMP (free and deluxe feet).
Uno scatto realizzato per ulss13mirano.ven.it
Mirano, Venezia
HDR 7 Scatti
Fotocamera: Canon EOS 650D
Esposizione: 0.8
Aperture: f/11.0
Lente: 10 mm
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM
GPS Position: GPX Master
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I captured a quick panorama of Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, and the resulting size is over 20,000 pixels.
Fall River, Massachusetts.
Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, US. It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse.
The light was built in 1881, and added to the National Register of Historic Places as Borden Flats Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001528.
By the mid-19th century, the city of Fall River had become a bustling textile-mill town, with regularly scheduled steamboat service to Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City. The city is located at the mouth of the Taunton River where it meets Mount Hope Bay, which is an arm of Narragansett Bay.
Prior to the lighthouse, an unlit day beacon was constructed to mark the spot of a dangerous reef near the center of the relatively shallow Mount Hope Bay. In June 1880, $25,000 was appropriated for the construction of a new lighthouse on Borden Flats, which consisted of a 50-foot-tall (15 m) cast-iron tower that included a keeper's quarters. The light went into service on October 1, 1881, with a fourth-order Fresnel lens producing a fixed red light 47-foot (14 m) above mean high water. Rainwater was collected in gutters and stored in a cistern in the structure's basement level, providing the keeper's water supply.
The lighthouse, which sits in water open to the south, was battered in the hurricane of 1938. The storm left the structure with a pronounced tilt, which it still has. A new wider caisson was later added around the original one for additional protection.
In 1957, the lighthouse was electrified. It was automated in 1963. In 1977, its Fresnel lens was removed and replaced with a modern Vega VRB-25 lens. The fog bell remained in use until 1983 when it was replaced by an electronic foghorn. Under auspices of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, the lighthouse was auctioned privately through the General Services Administration. It is currently one of two offshore caisson lighthouses in the United States available to spend the night in. (Wikipedia.)