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We are back on the boat after a weekend at a workshop in the Smokies. The weather was marvelous. The workshop was most beneficial. The scenery was a variable feast for the eyes. Autumn comes most gently to the Smoky Mountains this year. Seen from a distance the hills and mountains are a gentle kaleidoscope […]

Some of the best wild life images done are from zoos. And why not? Just need to find a good pose and control the background. Admission beats the cost of a trip to Africa or that of multiple dive charters when seeking to go nose to nose with a sea turtle. Birdie here is a […]

Clyde Butcher’s world is one of swamps, rivers, saw grass prairies, summer storms and black & white photography. As we had to be in Florida this week, we decided to visit his kingdom for a Sunday photo shoot in the swamps by his gallery. Fascinating places the swamps of Big Cypress, The Everglades and the […]

                              More fun than sitting on a whoopee cushion – launched from the boat voluntarily and otherwise. Voluntarily: The standing wave at the entrance rapids to the Olympic course really pops raft sterns up in the air. Some guides use this […]

Want that Olympic moment? Buy a kayak rig. Maybe consider adding a face mask to the helmet. Don’t forget the nose clip for the inevitable rolls under water. Practice and then go up to the upper Ocoee River to the Olympice whitewater course from the ’96 Olympics. On Saturday morning they open a valve at […]

Barry’s Story: Barry is a picker, the type featured on the History Channel program. Has been for years. Collects all sorts of interesting stuff. He knows the TV pickers and now is their landlord for their retail store in Nashville, Antique Archealogy. Now that’s an interesting name and probably an effective one when seeking to take old […]

Most images have stories. This image has two and will have another one in October. The falls are a mile hike up and along ridges off from an educational center in the National Park. We saved this gem for the last morning because of the length of the walk in. The results speak for themselves. […]

A number of year’s ago visitors to our summer home had the chance to see a piliated woodpecker in our yard. They were all excited because the only woodpecker they had seen was Woody and they thought they were seeing Woody. So ever since piliated woodpeackers have been Woodys. The park here really belongs to […]

Tucked away in the far Northwest corner of the Great Smoky Mountians National Park is this marvellous corner of the world, Cades Cove. The Park Service has been manicuring it and refining it since the forties. In doing so they must have consulted with the art department from National Geogrpahic Publications. If they didn’t then […]

Back up to the mountains today ostensibly to scout locations for a fall color run into the Smokies mid/late October. Reservations already made. Still need to get a sunset shot. Most nights the framing clouds would dissipate late afternoon. The first attempt was rained out at the site. Second attempt (shown here) had great promise. […]