There’s really nothing special about today’s image, it’s just a decaying tree stump covered in moss. What caught my attention was how vibrant the mosses were against the dull color of the forest floor. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm Processing: Adobe Lightroom 3, Adobe Photoshop...

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Don’t you just love it when you literally stumble onto a great composition! Well that’s what happen with this image. I had just finished shooting what would become River Crossing and was making my way further down the trail when I came across this scene. The tree had fallen right through the middle of the only laurel bush in sight. It kind of reminded me of a scene from any number of bad movies where the speeding car always hits the...

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This is the smallest of the trail-side waterfalls that I encountered during a recent walk along the Virginia Creeper Trail. As I was setting up this shot the sun began to break through the clouds and cast shadows of the laurel branches across the water. After I began working on the image I realized that I should have captured at least one more with a shorter exposure. I could have used the shorter exposure as a layer mask to help correct the...

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This is one of the trail-side waterfalls that formed along the Virginia Creeper Trail after a week of melting snow and rain. Allow for a few days of dry conditions and falls like this will slow to little more than a trickle of water dripping from the rocks. The infusion of moisture and warmer than normal temperatures have really brought out the brilliant greens in the mosses that cover the rocks in these spots. It is an odd sight to see such...

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After a week of wet weather, local rivers are once again at full capacity. The rush of water has not only filled them to their banks but created some amazing rapids. Just a few weeks ago this spot had slowed to little more than quiet stream but it was a thundering torrent during my visit this past weekend. I also got in some abstract work with the 10-stop filter while at this spot that I’ll share later in the week. The river wasn’t...

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Last weekend we had a light snow fall on Friday that left little more than a dusting and really cold temperatures behind. Saturday night the snow fell again but this time left significantly more accumulation in higher elevations. During a quick trip out Sunday afternoon I found this tree that had fallen across the path that created a great break in the chaos of snow covered laurel leaves. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm Lens Settings:...

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