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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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Holly was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33.  Holly’s Story is her blog about breast cancer survival.

Picture Me, Loving You

Picture Me, Loving You

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Dan and Holly bought a small farm in 2018 and building their “forever home” there now.  Follow along here!

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Dan may or may not have an obsession with cars.  Follow along with his dream car build up; a 1967 Camaro.

The Gum Nebula Rising Over the Smokies at 50mm

One of the things I love about night sky photography is it provides a seemingly endless outlet for my own curiosity.  Especially when using remote observatory data, its really easy to enjoy the night sky objects, without necessarily knowing where they are in space in...

Angelfish Nebula Setting in the Smokies

This week I'm continuing my exploration of the humongous winter sky (as viewed from the northern hemisphere) objects with an image of the Angelfish Nebula setting at Morton's Overlook.  The Angelfish Nebula (or SH2-264 is its scientific name) is situated as the "head"...

The Troll Bridge at Night

Over the next several weeks I want to spend some time sharing a few images that I captured last year, but never got around to posting - despite them being favorites!  This week's image is of the famous "troll" bridge in Elkmont.  The photogenic little bridge used to...

The Gum Nebula Rising Over Townsend

While the summer Milky Way (as seen from the Northern Hemisphere) seems to capture most people's attention, and is frankly far easier to photograph, there are some absolutely humongous and interesting structures in the winter skies.  This past winter (welcome to...

Blue Hole Falls at Night

I'm always up for a bit of adventure, but on this occasion I started feeling like maybe I'd bit off more than I could chew!  I mentioned a couple weeks ago about the park roads being closed - an issue I imagine will only become more prevalent with the impending budget...

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...
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