Taken only a few minutes after Reflections of Sunset today’s image has a completely different mood and feel to it. The brilliant orange glow of sunset had completely faded away and darkness was quickly overtaking the remaining daylight. Maintenance crews have been busy over the last few months reworking the path leading to the intake tower. What is left of a fallen tree trunk acts as a border to the freshly rocked walkway. A little extra...

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Late last week really cold temperatures moved into our area bringing light snowfall with it. While the snow didn’t stick around long in town, I thought that there would be some lingering along the mountain paths and streams in higher elevations. So I packed up my gear Saturday morning and went out in search of winter scenery. There was not as much snow along the river as I had hoped but the cold air was freezing the mist on low hanging...

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As a Christmas/Birthday gift to myself, I finally broke down and purchased a B+W ND110 “10-Stop” filter. This weekend was the first opportunity that I’ve had to get out and practice with it a little. The weather was perfect – overcast and gray with a slight breeze. I wasn’t able to spend much time working with it but it was just enough time to fall completely in love with this little glass disc. My workshop was...

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This shot is of one of the many cascades that can be found along Straight Branch in Southwest Virginia. The overcast skies we had Sunday provided some great shooting opportunities well into the afternoon. It was so cloudy that I was able to shoot this around noon with only a CPL filter and lens hood. Gear: Canon 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm, CPL Settings: 20mm, ISO100, f/16, .3 seconds Processing: Adobe Lightroom 3, Adobe Photoshop CS5, OnOne...

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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...

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