Cold temperatures have frozen the surface of this mountain stream in Southwest Virginia. A break in the weather allowed me the opportunity to capture this image of a stream whose surface has been frozen by the recent cold temperatures. This particular stream is located in the Nordyke community in Washington County, Virginia. This image is compilation of 3 bracketed exposures taken at ISO100 and f/16 using an ND4 filter. I combined the exposures...

This is just one of a series of photos I shot after a 16-mile bike ride along The Virginia Creeper Trail north-east of Damascus, Virginia. The stream is “Straight Branch” and flows through Jefferson National Forest and eventually feeds into South Holston Lake along the Virginia-Tennessee border. The Virginia Creeper Trail itself runs from Abingdon, Virginia to Whitetop Station, Virginia. This is a beautifully, scenic ride that...

The “Stars and Bars” , the Confederate battle flag, marks the grave of a Confederate Soldier in an Abingdon, Virginia cemetery. Note: This is in no way a comment on anything (racial, political, personal attitude or otherwise). I was simply walking this cemetery when I found this monument with the flag and found it an odd thing to see in this day and...

A firework bursting on the Fourth of July is captured here in a 3-shot progression.