Last weekend I had the opportunity to be drive through Hanging Tree Recreation Area in Scott County, Virginia. This area is home to Stoney Creek which has several waterfalls and cascades. I had hoped to be able to shoot the largest of the falls, a 60 foot curtain with a bridge crossing above it, but the only access road had all been closed by the Park Service so I opted to try my luck with the smaller falls. This is one of the many cascades...

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While on one of my several hikes over the last few weekends I came across this large shelf lichen growing on the side of a tree. I see these all of the time but this one was very large (as shelf lichen goes) and growing right at eye level. Usually this type of fungus is growing closer to the ground where it’s dark and moist so it couldn’t help but catch my attention. I ran this image through OnOne PhotoTools 2.6 to add a Color and...

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There was so much to see in my short weekend on the Blue Ridge Parkway that I had to go back the next Saturday morning to hit a few spots that I missed. Luckily, the locations I missed are a short two hour drive from my house but it still meant leaving around 3:30am to get the shots I wanted. I had two targets in mind for this morning and one of them was Linville Falls. The Linville Falls area actually consists of several huge waterfalls but...

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Just a quick post today as it’s turning out to be a pretty busy week at work. This was shot at the extreme southwestern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina on the last morning of my fall trip through the region. The wind had been blowing quite hard the entire weekend but this was the first day that had seen cloud cover of any kind. I couldn’t help pulling off at a roadside parking area to take a few frames of the clouds...

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Today’s image was taken along the trail leading through the Crabtree Falls area along the Blue Ridge Parkway. I found this small set of rapids upstream from the main falls and decided to spend a few minutes capturing them. There really wasn’t much room to setup so my choices of compositions were pretty limited but I managed to get a few good takeaways. Of those shots this was my favorite. Have a great weekend! Gear: Canon 60D, Canon...

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