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Cedar Creek, Natural Bridge State Park, Virginia
"But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
~ Amos 5:24
One of the first scenes you see when you pass through the old entryway for Natural Bridge State Park and head down the stairs is this peaceful little alcove quietly displaying the deceptively gentle force that formed the Natural Bridge in Virginia. Cedar Creek certainly doesn't look like much here, but over millions of years it helped form a 215-foot-high (66 m) natural arch that Thomas Jefferson, before he became our 3rd President, proclaimed to be "the most Sublime of nature's works".
One would think the Natural Bridge itself would be more famous; in 1774 Jefferson actually purchased it from King George III (yes, that King George whom he rebelled against 2 years later; and he only paid 20 Shillings for it!) Before that, a large stone engraved with "G.W." and bearing a surveyor's cross there at Natural Bridge proves that our 1st President, George Washington himself surveyed the bridge when he came through in 1750. Nor were they the only U.S. Presidents who visited the structure; both James Monroe (5th President) and Martin Van Buren (8th President) stayed at Jefferson's log cabin retreat there.
The bridge is even mentioned by Herman Melville in describing Moby-Dick. Yet in spite of all that history, Natural Bridge was only made a State Park, not even a National Park, as late as 2016.
The park features a lot to do besides the creek and bridge, but I still find this spot here to be the most memorable due to its tranquil setting. The power of water, even when flowing gently.
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While hiking along a road there in Yosemite, I could hear this flowing water off in the distance. Headed off into the woods and came upon this glorious scene.
Captured with the CPL filter only here in the low light of the woods.
Ecclesiastes 1:7: “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.”
This 'stair-step' stream is a tributary to Soco Falls, which is located just west of Maggie Valley, NC. The shot was taken during last fall's foliage trip
While in the Smokie Mountains we stopped multiple times to photograph the scenery. I was happy to take photos of my lovely daughter too. This photo is called “Jamie By The Stream.” Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe and be kind.
Laura and I hiked speckled mountain this past saturday. It's a beautiful mountain, and almost completely unpopulated. On the path up, we saw this river below and stopped to sit.
Just a quite stream where a person can just stand and enjoy the quietude at least a few hundred meters away from the nearest road and several miles away from the nearest town.
By the time October rolls around the local small fishing streams have slowed up to virtual driftlessness!
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A High Sierra stream cascades past forest and meadows and over boulders after summer rainstorms.
This little “almost-intimate” landscape comes from closer to the midpoint of our August backcountry photography trip. The first few days features some challenging weather, including torrential rains on the first day. That rain flooded a lot of the area and raised this creek by several feet. On that first afternoon as we lay in our tents sheltering from the storm we started to hear a roar beneath the sound of rain and hail — it was the sound of this “little” creek growing to a dangerous torrent.
The tumultuous water was brown with suspended material washed down from the higher mountains, and for days the nearby lake’s water was coffee-colored. But before long the creek began to recede and its water cleared. By the time I made this photograph early one morning the water was low enough that I could safely ford the stream. I was about to do just that on my way to some timberline country when I paused and made this photograph of the creek, still in morning shadows.
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This is one of my favourite landscapes taken to-date. It was captured while spending time with family in the Brecon Beacons. The family is often visiting grandparents who live in Brecon Town. Usually I rise early before sunrise to be back with family before breakfast, but this was captured on one of the rare occasion I found some time to escape late afternoon. The mist was thick across Pen y Fan but I wanted to try and hike the ridge path over by Llyn y fan Fawr lake.
I drove over to the lake and started the climb through the farmyard and over the river Tawe and onto the moor / open access lands of the Brecon Beacon National Park. This is common land and can be freely enjoyed by anyone. I never made it to the lake; it was getting late by the time I arrived, the mist was coming in, and there was just too much to photograph.
This was one of the captures from the day, a beautiful Welsh stream, meandering off the higher open access / common moor and down into the Welsh farms below. This wonderful tree twists across the river, bent double by the winds coming off the Welsh mountains. The mist just completes this wonderful scene.
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Before sunrise at Harlyn bay in Cornwall. An early walk out with Lowena Jane and Camera meant we were able to capture the mist before it burnt off and also capture the sunrise sky glow in the stream running down the beach . Also avoiding the many Jellyfish littered about the beach after being washed up over night .