Sometimes you can find the most interesting and unexpected surprises by just stopping along the roadside. That’s exactly how I came across this spectacular cascade. I had followed a set of directions I found online to another waterfall and had passed this cascade on the way. On the way back I pulled off into a makeshift...

Since the last day of my outing fell on a Monday there was very little tourist traffic so I decided to take advantage of this and make a marathon run of as many waterfalls as I could. I started the morning by taking a drive to Soco Falls located on the Cherokee Indian Nation at the southern most end of the Blue Ridge Parkway...

Many states have “Rails to Trails” programs that take unused stretches of rail road and convert them to trails for hiking and biking. Locally, the Virginia Creeper Trail is the best known and most successful example of this program. There are several bridges along the Creeper but few use the original structure left...

Sunday morning I packed up my gear and headed out to shoot another set of local waterfalls. These two falls were the last on a list that I compiled several weeks ago but had not had an opportunity to shoot yet. Both falls are along the same stretch of river and are within a quarter mile of each other but they are in a section...

Sunday afternoon I packed my gear and headed out to shoot for a while. The weather forecast called for a slight chance of thunderstorms but the radar was clear for miles so all seemed good. Before I made it halfway to the location I had in mind the rain was pouring down! Out of nowhere a huge rain storm had bloomed and was...

Saturday afternoon I packed up the Subaru and headed to the mountains for what I hoped would a quiet overnight camping trip filled with shooting. The weather reports called for a slight chance of a shower so I wasn’t too worried but about 4 miles from my campsite that changed in a big way! The mother of all mountain...

After grabbing the brackets for yesterday’s image, we decided to move up to the Weir Dams to see how thick the fog was there. The scene that I found could not have been better! The dams were operating, there was a thick blanket of fog over the upper river and the sunset was reflecting in the billowing clouds beyond the...

Wrapping up this week’s series on White Top Mountain is the second of a set of sunset photos; the first was yesterday’s post “Fountain of Fire“. Both of these were taken from locations in front of the bench we saw in “Waypoint KFC” to try and give the viewer an idea of what visitors see from...