Maine Coastline near Freeport, Part 3
Clouds moving over a park and boat launch along the Maine coast. Exposure time: 211 seconds. Shot with a 15-stop ND filter.
Clouds, Trees, and Rocks (B&W#1), outside Freeport, Maine (12″x22.5″)
Maine Coastline near Freeport, Part 2
Clouds moving over a park along the Maine coast. Exposure time: 189 seconds. Shot with a 15-stop ND filter.
Clouds, Trees, and Water (B&W#1), outside Freeport, Maine (15″x22.5″)
Maine Coastline near Freeport, Part 1
Clouds moving over rocks and reeds/grasses along the Maine coast. Exposure time: 211 seconds. Shot with a 15-stop ND filter.
Clouds, Rock, and Water (B&W#2), outside Freeport, Maine (15″x22.5″)
Clouds Moving over Blue Ridge Mtns from Pisgah Inn
Morning fog and clouds move over the ridge tops along the Blue Ridge Mountains. Exposure time: 61 seconds.
Moving Clouds over Ridges from Pisgah Inn, Pisgah Forest, NC (10″x22″)
Panorama of Stillwater Reservoir, CO
Low water in the Stillwater Reservoir on the edge of the Flat Top Wilderness Area in Colorado. Note the driftwood stranded on the reservoir wall/bank/berm.
Stillwater Reservoir (Color Panorama #4), Routt National Forest, CO (20″x71″)
Rain Clouds over Stillwater Reservoir, CO
Dark storm clouds gather along the ridges above the Stillwater Reservoir on the edge of the Flat Top Wilderness Area in Colorado. A spectacular area to hike around.
Rain Clouds over Stillwater Reservoir (B&W #2), Routt National Forest, CO (14″x22″)
Falls at Graveyard Fields, BRP, NC
Last autumn, I made a few ‘single-frame’ photographs of the falls around the Graveyard Fields area along the Blue Ridge Parkway, but was generally not happy with these images. I recently came across several panoramic images I had been too busy to work on – much better images in my opinion.
Second Falls at Graveyard Fields (Panorama #1), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (19″x50″)
Fields and Clouds at Bosque del Apache, Part 2
Grasses glow in a field under the setting sun and winter clouds at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.
Fields and Winter Clouds (#2, Color), Bosque del Apache NWR, NM (12″x21″)
Fields and Clouds at Bosque del Apache
Fields and winter clouds at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.
Fields and Winter Clouds, Bosque del Apache NWR, NM (12″x21″)
Mountains and Clouds at Bosque del Apache
I love to drive down to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central/southern New Mexico and watch the cranes land around sunset. However, I’m not a wildlife photographer, so I like to arrive early to stroll around before sunset and look at the clouds, surrounding mountains, and open fields.
Bosque Mountains and Winter Clouds, Bosque del Apache NWR, NM (15″x22.5″)
Long Exposure: Clouds from Craggy Pinnacle
Long-exposure photograph of clouds passing over the ridge line northeast of Craggy Pinnacle Summit along the Blue Ridge Parkway, NC.
Clouds from Craggy Pinnacle Summit (B&W, 121s exposure), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (15″x22″)
Panoramas of Ridges from Craggy Pinnacle
Panoramas of shadows on the ridges along the Blue Ridge Parkway, shot from Craggy Pinnacle Summit, NC.
Ridges and Shadows from Craggy Pinnacle Summit (B&W), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (20″x67″)
Cloud over Ridges and Shadows from Craggy Pinnacle Summit (B&W), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (20″x54″)
Panorama of Clouds from Craggy Pinnacle
Panorama of light and shadow on the mountains and clouds over the Blue Ridge Parkway, shot from Craggy Pinnacle Summit, NC.
Clouds and Mountains from Craggy Pinnacle Summit (B&W), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (21″x65″)
View of Clouds from Craggy Pinnacle Summit
View looking northeast from Craggy Pinnacle Summit along the Blue Ridge Parkway, NC. I’m a sucker for clouds spilling over a ridge.
Clouds from Craggy Pinnacle Summit (B&W), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (13″x23″)
Blue Ridge Parkway Overlook (B&W), Oct 2021
Black and white version of a 136s exposure of the view over the fence near the Graybeard Mountain View Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway, NC.
Graybeard Mtn View Overlook, Fence, and Clouds (B&W, 136s exp.), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (13″x21)
Blue Ridge Parkway Overlook, Oct 2021
View over the fence near the Graybeard Mountain View Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway, NC. One exposure is 136 seconds, the other 301 seconds- shot with a 15-stop ND filter.
Graybeard Mtn View Overlook, Fence, and Clouds (136s exposure), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (13″x21)
Graybeard Mtn View Overlook, Fence, and Clouds (301s exposure), Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (13″x21)
Grayson Highlands Panorama, Part 3
Panorama of the ponies under a tree on the ridge trail to Mount Rogers in Grayson Highlands.
Grayson Highlands Ridge and Ponies Panorama (#4, Color), Grayson Highlands State Park, VA (16″x50″)
Grayson Highlands Panorama, Part 2
Panorama of the views along the trail to Mount Rogers in Grayson Highlands, this time looking back to the south down the ridge towards the trailhead.
Grayson Highlands Ridge Top Panorama (#7, Color), Grayson Highlands State Park, VA (16″x66″)
Grayson Highlands Panorama, Part 1
I haven’t been as focused on panoramic photography recently- instead I’ve been making more single-frame photographs focused on time (long exposure). However, sometimes it is just too hard to capture the magnificent views of a rolling landscape with a single-frame photograph. Here is one of the panoramas I took from the ridge leading up to Mount Rogers from Rhododendron Trail in Grayson Highlands back in the July, 2021.
Grayson Highlands Ridge Top Panorama (#8, Color), Grayson Highlands State Park, VA (16″x52″)
Catawba Falls from below
Catawba Falls from pools below the cascades.
Catawba Falls from below, near Old Fort, NC (15″x18″)
Catawba Falls Panorama
Vertical panorama of Catawba Falls from the side of the cascades.
Catawba Falls from side (panorama), near Old Fort, NC (15.5″x22″)
Catawba Falls
Views of Catawba Falls from the side of the cascades in the middle of the falls.
Catawba Falls from side, near Old Fort, NC (15″x23″)
Bridges over Tennessee River, Part 2
More long-exposure photographs of clouds and bridges over the Tennessee River using a 15-stop ND filter. Here, I liked how the leading lines of the clouds and the bridges direct the eye to the right third of the image, but the boardwalk in the foreground leads the eye back to the bridge on the left.
Tennessee River, Bridges, and Clouds (Part 2), Knoxville, TN (14″x21″)
Bridges and Clouds over Tennessee River
Visited Knoxville, TN for the first time a few weeks ago- it was cloudy and moderately chilly. I took a walk along the Tennessee River and used a 15-stop filter to make a few photographs of the passing clouds over the river. So much time and history has passed by this spot.
Tennessee River, Bridges, and Clouds, Knoxville, TN (14″x21″)
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