This weekend was marked by heavy cloud cover in our area which made for some great daytime shooting. What made it better, for me anyway, was the high winds that set in on Sunday afternoon. After spending the morning shooting streams in the mountains I decided to close out the day with some long exposure shooting by the lake. I’ve had a shot like this in mind since I bought my filter kit several months ago but the right circumstances of...

Over the weekend I went back to a local river just looking for smaller rapids to shoot. There are plenty of rapids along this river but during the summer and fall many of them can’t be seen easily because of the amount of foliage growing over the river. Now that the majority of the growth has fallen they are much simpler targets to shoot. This shot was taken from the roadside looking directly down onto the river just before it turns...

Sometimes the smallest details are the very thing that come to symbolize and remind you of a place. To me these concrete mile posts are synonymous with the Blue Ridge Parkway because no matter how much the scenery changes they remain constant. This isn’t the only place where you’ll find markers like this but they are one of the first things that come to my mind when I think of the Parkway. Gear: Canon 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm,...

Today’s shot is of another unnamed waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest of western North Carolina. This waterfall is located about 50 yards above the falls we saw in the post Wall of Water. The heavily diffused light of late afternoon created the perfect conditions to shoot long exposures. I tried a few different compositions of this shot, with and without the trees in the foreground, but decided that I actually liked how the trees...

There are some advantages to the sun going down so much earlier in the evening, it provides more opportunities to get in long exposures. This is an image of South Holston Lake with 421 Bridge looming overhead taken around 6:30pm. During the summer months this shot is not possible because the water level is so high there is no place to setup. Highway 421 is locally known as The Snake because of its continuous curves as it crosses Holston...