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According to the GSMNP website, Newfound Gap Road between Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina "is the only route that completely traverses the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Scenic overlooks along this drive offer spectacular views of the Smokies. The overlook at Newfound Gap, where this shot was made, is the highest point along this drive. It is also a place where you can stand on the dividing line between Tennessee and North Carolina.
On with my newfound love for astrophotography and our quests are expanding to daily roadtrips. It's not always easy. Not as easy as I thought at least! It needs commitment, focusing on the goal, anticipation of the elements and good planning to follow the stars and the Milky Way in particular, but it seems ever since I took my first photo of them stars, I'm always looking out for them! Anything less seems just... less! Ohhh well, it's a phase I know. This too shall pass. Till then I'm enjoying every single moment of the chase and the adventure that comes with it!
This one was taken on a daily roadtrip to Galatas, some 170Kms outside Athens. We've been there recently, yet we went again to shoot for the Milky Way this time. This meant we should be around driving from spot to spot all night long, for a period of almost 4 hours, in which the window of opportunity to get our shots would remain open! We weren't absolutely sure of the weather though, but we went for it anyway and it favored us with the clear skies we needed. In this photo one can see the tail of Via Lactea rather than the center, yet I liked the angle so I went all in for the shot! Now, that got me started and made me want to get similar shot with the center of the Galaxy in it! But that's coming next!
Looking out over Newfound Gap on a morning with heavy clouds overhead. The sun was just barely able to peak through. Should Newfound Gap be renamed to something like Foundsometimeago Gap? After all, people have known about this place for a while now. Just wondering. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennesee, USA, October 2022
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Newfound Gap Road/US 441
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Newfound Gap, zoom into North Carolina Smoky Mountains
The name of the area comes from the natural haze that often hangs over it. As in the neighboring Blue Ridge Mountains to the east, hydrocarbons produced by trees and other local vegetation — as well as higher humidity — produce a bluish cast to the sky, even over short distances
Brim, Guido van Helten
About the work
Guido van Helten’s iconic Brim mural was the first silo artwork to appear in Victoria, and soon infused the town’s community with newfound energy and optimism. After gaining widespread local and international attention, Brim’s silo art success shone a spotlight on the Wimmera Mallee region and inspired the establishment of the Silo Art Trail.
Completed in early 2016, with limited financial resources, van Helten’s mural depicts an anonymous, multi-generational quartet of female and male farmers. Rendered across these four 1939-built GrainCorp silos, van Helten’s subjects bear expressions that exemplify the strength and resilience of the local farming community.
By rendering the figures as both central and peripheral, present and absent, the work explores shifting notions of community identity at a time when rural populations face both immense economic pressure and the tangible consequences of climate change.
Using the documentary style of humanist street photography as studies, the translucent aerosol technique conjures a sense of ghostliness. The resulting characters are profoundly connected to their chosen place, infusing the landscape with a comforting, familiar presence.
Artist Bio
Guido van Helten was born in Canberra, ACT and grew up in inner-city Melbourne. After graduating from Southern Cross University, Melbourne with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (majoring in printmaking), van Helten began to develop his work, aligning with the contemporary large-scale muralism movement that was gathering momentum at the time.
Celebrating everyday characters in forgotten places, van Helten’s monochromatic, photorealistic style offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of others. His large-scale murals tell stories of culture, history and identity in an effort to capture the soul of people and place.
In 2016, Van Helten was nominated for the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW for his work in Brim.
This pretty view can be seen from the scenic turnout just east of the main overlook for Newfound Gap in the Smoky Mountain National Forest.
Newfound Gap Overlook is nearly a mile high and straddles the state line between North Carolina and Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Newfound River Waterfall at Bristol Falls Park
The late Autumn color of the fallen leaves adds so much.
This image was shot hand held without benefit of a tripod. No filters were used.
Date: 10/31/2025
Location: Bristol, NH, USA
Equipment: Canon 5D Mark ii with Tamron 24-70mm F2.8 VC
Software: Lightroom Classic
Copyright: Neil Morrill, All Rights Reserved
Settings: 29mm, F14, 1/4 sec, ISO 50
Hope you enjoy!
Newfound River Waterfall at Bristol Falls
A bit of scrambling was required to get this shot. The falls flow under the walkway on the trail giving this interesting view.
This image was shot hand held without benefit of a tripod. No filters were used.
Date: 10/31/2025
Location: Bristol, NH, USA
Equipment: Canon 5D Mark ii with Tamron 24-70mm F2.8 VC
Software: Lightroom Classic
Copyright: Neil Morrill, All Rights Reserved
Settings: 31mm, F14, 1/4 sec, ISO 50
Hope you enjoy!
Scene from the Newfound Gap overlook in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which straddles Tennessee and North Carolina. I believe that both states are in view in this photo, with Tennessee to the left and North Carolina to the right.
For how much I've visited the coast these past 3 years or how much material I came back with, there's one subject I never got of (in a way where it can be posted that is). The Pacific Northwest has tons of great lighthouses but leave it to me to take a path to a more difficult one. After Fort Columbia I continued down memory lane.
It's not that far of a drive to Cape Disappointment. Passed by a few... intellectually innocent, protestors who thought America was ruled by a king but other then that it was a pleasant drive. Now anyone who's been to this state park know that you gotta walk up a large incline to get to the lighthouse and a more risky path down to dead man's cove (still wondering if I got a usable shot from the latter).
Once I got to the peak, I began wondering what to do. I haven't had a lot of luck recently with sunbursts, but the sky was pretty cloudy which means even if you line it up it won't be as effective (came to that conclusion when I was in sisters about a week or two earlier). So needless to say, that didn't work. So I needed to find another angle to shoot this lighthouse. Landscape? I mean you can definitely see Astoria from the observation deck, but you could only include the lighthouse in a shot like that by getting higher, maybe with a drone (but I didn't have one). Then I had the most bizarre idea ever, using weeds as a foreground. Oddly enough, it worked really well, it made it look beautiful and further added to the idea that this lighthouse hasn't been used in ages. Even better, there weren't a lot of people up here so I didn't have to edit anyone out from the shot. The sky was cooperative and the wear on the lighthouse was perfect. I thought about taking out the guard rail which would be easy everywhere except the door on the left. Now, I did stretch the top of the lighthouse up a little bit to make it more imposing but this wasn't mean to be a creepy shot so I didn't do anything beyond that like drain vibrancy. This is one of my better Washington shots.
View my previous photo to see the other chick watching this one leave the nest. Something was up with my views on Flickr yesterday. Both great horned owl chicks were branching yesterday evening and flapping away! So much fun to watch!
A clear sunny morning looking through the trees at Newfound Gap during autumn. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA, October 2022
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Sunset at Newfound Gap in the Great Smokey Mountains.
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Newfound Gap (el. 5048 ft./1539 m.) is a mountain pass located near the center of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States of America. Situated along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, the state line crosses the gap.
This is a similar shot to a previous picture I posted, taken from the same spot, except here I intentionally tried to capture the motion of the cars as they traveled up and down the road. Maybe such a shot with cars is appropriate, since I leave in a few hours to make the long drive from Atlanta to Chicago...then fly from Chicago to Dallas, back to Chicago, and only to drive back to Atlanta - all in the next two weeks!
This is a spot in Great Smoky Mountains National Park that I'll be sure to return to at the same time next year. The sheer magnitude of colors in the trees in this short stretch of US441 near the Chimney Tops picnic area is astounding; I've never seen anything quite like it! The newly paved road wasn't as attractive from road-level, so I climbed up the sloping side to get a better view of the road traversing its way through the scene. Even though it was cloudy and I was using a polarizer, I still had to stop the lens down to f22 to get enough exposure to capture several cars. Once the settings are right, it's just a game of waiting for the longest string of cars to come your way - usually precipitated by some slow (obnoxiously so, I'm sure, to the cars behind) truck or van to come rolling down the mountain. They closed the road shortly after this shot was taken, as a snow storm began dumping double-digit inches of snow on the mountain tops.
Newfound Gap Road Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Sevier county, Tennessee Mountains
Accessed via US-441 (Newfound Gap Road) in Gatlinburg
Date taken: April 26, 2016
While I rush around from destination to destination, planning and hoping for favorable light and atmospheric conditions at various destinations across the southeast and mid-atlantic, the roads and trails themselves pass largely unnoticed and underappreciated in my photography. When I sit at home during the off moments building excitement for my next adventure, however, it's more often than not these very trails and roads that are top of mind for me (not the destinations). So, this one is for the journey!
Newfound Gap Road is a thirty plus mile highway straight through Great Smoky Mountains National Park, connecting Gatlinburg, Tennessee with Cherokee, North Carolina. Gaining some three-thousand plus feet in elevation from either approach up to Newfound Gap (intersection of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail), the road transports visitors into and through obvious environmental changes--both visual and temperate. The original over-mountain highway passed through Indian Gap (assumed lowest point) until Andrew Guyot mapped the elevation of the many peaks in the Smokies, determining a "newly found" gap that was actually the lowest over-mountain pass, hence Newfound Gap. As America's most popular National Park, it stands that many folks have likely journeyed up and down this very highway as well.
© 2016 Mark VanDyke. All Rights Reserved. This image may not be used for anything without my explicit permission.
Jessie's new passion is ballet and tap dancing. I'm proud to see her really get into something. And of course I'm happy because this lends itself to all sorts of photograph opportunities.
Her class is going to be putting on a performance at the local theather in a few months. We might have her participate. We have to custom order a special dress for that. Not sure how much that will cost, but if she's really into, I say what the heck. I'd be thrilled to see her perform on stage. :)
This short stretch along Newfound Gap Road in Great Smoky Mountains NP is without a doubt the best fall color I've seen anywhere. The deep blacks of the freshly-paved road really add some depth to the shot, in my opinion. This area near the Chimney Tops Picnic Area usually peaks much after other similar elevations (~3000 ft) - usually during the last week of October or first week of November. Last year I drove by here and noticed the color, but wasn't able to spend much time to get the shot I wanted. This year, I specifically planned a visit back here, and it paid off for me when I found the same golden canopy hanging over the road. The richness of color in the GSMNP is only unbelievable to the people who haven't visited during peak leaf season! I really hoped to get back to this spot after the snowstorm, but I couldn't really get back to Gatlinburg because of closed roads (my plan was to hike the several miles up the road to get here - should have stayed in Gatlinburg that night!).
Anyway, good news on the broken lens. Even though I declined the repair, it was returned from Canon with the warped/dented front edge of the barrel and filter threads replaced with one that is merely chipped. Some of the glass from the broken filter that made it's way into the lens when the plastic front element pushed upwards has been removed. The lens holds a filter again (with some manipulation), and appears to still take sharp pictures (there was no damage to the lens elements, as far as I could tell). This is good news for me, but bad news for Canon repair - how on earth did they want to charge me $535 to 'fix' the lens, when the product appears to be functional, just needing a new piece of the barrel and a good cleaning? Very confusing, and doesn't speak well for their repair department!