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My 5 favorite photos from 2024

Sometimes we need to be reminded the of the lessons we teach others. Welcome friends! As I say every year, it is my favorite post of the year! Generally I start these off with a bit of a family update, but if you'll humor me a conversation about photography first, I promise I'll get to the family update (though I have no idea if anyone actually reads these, or just come to look at the pictures - either is fine, really). Every year when I sit down to pick my 5 favorite images, it is really such a time of celebration for me. It is a reminder of all the neat things I've seen and...

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Look Rock Fire Tower Under the Stars

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Swinging Under the Stars in the Snow

I don't know about you, but I'm counting down the days till the official start of spring - as ever, I'm ready for winter to be over! That said, we have had a few nice snows this year (and by nice, I mean pretty, but didn't stay long), one of which was back at the...

Frozen Spruce Flats Falls – at Night!

It's not every day you get to see a frozen waterfall! In fact for me, it had been years! Back in January we had a string of below freezing days that followed a light snowfall. The Smokies were closed for days due to poor road conditions, leaving me to dream about...

Driving Towards the Seagull Nebula

This week we're continuing an exploration of the Foothills Parkway, but with a slightly deeper view than the previous two images. I've wanted to shoot this section of the road for a while - I just really like the long straight lines and the look of this section. To...

Look Rock Fire Tower Under the Stars

Happy belated Valentine's Day and an early President's Day to all of you here in the States! I've just returned from another trip to the Middle East, and I must say, I'm grateful for the long weekend. I definitely needed a break after all the travel and then trying...

Orion and the Foothills Parkway Overpass

This may sound kind of funny, but I have spent an unusually large amount of time on the Foothills Parkway. If you've been following along with this blog for any amount of time, you'll have seen a good number of images from the Parkway, and probably recognize the name...

Orion Rising Above the Tipton Cabin

One of the challenges of shooting in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at night is that many of the iconic structures of the park are located in very small openings within the forest, which tends to greatly limit your view of the night sky in conjunction with...

Enchanted Lane Under the Stars

I am guessing most of you have caught on to this already, but I am slowly trying to work through shooting all the iconic spots in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at night, just as a way to put my own spin on these classic scenes. This week's image is one I am...

The Lawson House Under the Winter Milky Way

This week Picture of the Week transitions back to the night, with a series of images I'm truly very excited to share with you. Essentially since the leaves have fallen off the trees, I've been working away at night scenes that display either the fall Milky Way or the...

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