Category Archives: Landscapes

Colors of the Smoky Mountains

It is no won­der the Great Smoky Moun­tains National Park is the most vis­ited park in the United States. In 2010 there were over 9 mil­lion vis­i­tors to the park, nearly dou­bling the num­ber of vis­i­tors to the Grand Canyon National Park. There is a won­der­ful beauty to these old mountains!

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Skaneateles NY

This church is located in Skaneate­les, NY, in the Fin­ger­lake region. Skaneate­les is a charm­ing lit­tle town with a great bak­ery hid­den away on one of the back streets!

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Early Morning in Cades Cove

It was early one fall morn­ing when we headed into the Smoky Moun­tains for sun­rise pic­tures. I know this is sev­eral hours after sun­rise, but I liked the way the sun­burst formed through the tree. The gen­tle­man walk­ing by just added to the scene. He hap­pened to walk by when no cars were pass­ing in […]

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Purposeful Blur

Slow­ing the shut­ter speed slightly will allow time for you to pur­posely move the cam­era to cre­ate a dif­fer­ent look to your images.  Some may not like this look, but oth­ers do.  It is not as easy as you may think to get the ‘right’ blur look.  I took many images of this Aspen forest […]

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Sunrise in the Rocky Mountains

We trav­eled to Col­orado and vis­ited the Rocky Moun­tains.  It is a beau­ti­ful place, espe­cially on days with clear blue skies!  To get a sun­rise image you have to start out really early in the morn­ing unless you camp at your spot over night.  The star burst cre­ated by the sun occurred when I set […]

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