Tags: scenic
Cumberland Gap
My wife and I recently took a small road trip to the Cumberland Gap area of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia borders. We were hoping to take some nice pictures of the trees in their fall colors, but we ended up catching a fall color of a different kind.
Sunrise 1 over Cherokee Lake, Sunrise 2, Early Morning Fog, Cumberland Gap , and after seeing all this, we couldn't help but mutter " Oh_Deer "
Ya' just gotta love the mountains!
Roundbout
Door County Sunset
Where I'd rather been.
Another sunset shot.
Sailboat and Sunset
Cropped Sailboat
Another shot of the sailboat
A few scenics
Previous post feedback encouraged moving the horizon line away from the middle of the frame; Good advice, but it seems I have done this here a few times as well. Gotta watch that.
Please pick them apart at random as you see fit.
Mt. Sopris from a Distance
Four Headed Mountain
Woodland Road
Fountain With Bench
Narrows Covered Bridge
Here's a view from the suspension bridge across Sugar Creek. We were waiting to see where those ahead went before deciding and naturally they were going where we were so we changed plans and walked up the opposite side of the creek.
Not too far from the suspension bridge you can see Goose Rock. I don't know how it got it's name. When I first set this shot up I thought "Dang it! Some jerk thru a blue plastic bag in the creek!" (self-edited for front page) but then it moved. Here's that small section blown up! Blue but not a plastic bag. It flew off before we could get closer... our theme for the day.
After Goose Rock, you'd think we'd see some geese and we did! The one is not walking on water... the water is only a few inches deep there. We passed a small waterfall. We seen an old uprooted tree that was a harbinger of what was to come later on that night for us and others in the Midwest.
We finally made it to the Narrows Covered Bridge. It's located at the East boundary of the park next to a road and bridge that replaced it. Here's another View, that's the old historic Lusk Home on the hill behind it. Here's a view of the trusses inside and a view of the windows used to let light in I liked the red glow reflected off the side of the bridge.
We walked to the other side and heard a loud growling noise coming from under the new concrete bridge, naturally had to check it out, it was coming from a hole in the rocks under the grafitti painted on the bridge. We tried to trick it into coming out by both of us getting down then Barb leaving while I stayed but as I was watching the mystery was solved when another pigeon flew in the hole. Even after knowing it was a pigeon it still sounded like loud growling... must have been the acoustics of the funnel shaped hole. It started to lightning and thunder then and we headed back after putting on the ponchos. All in all, a great day!
Here are some signs we seen in the park.
No swimming I guess if you drown you still get prosecuted.
Extreme Danger This is on top of Goose Rock.
Goose Rock This is beside Goose Rock (Barb took it). She also took the thumbnail of me. Remember the camera adds 10 (maybe 20) pounds.
This is another sign we seen back in town... it should say Book Store. You have to admire the guy that went to all the trouble to climb on the roof of the building to paint that. Cuz it was hard work! Just kidding! This is my usual long-winded production but at least it's not Texas Roadohouse... I do go other places! If ya stuck this long, Thanks!
On the road...
This first set were all taken from the window of the moving car (unless noted)... Barb will not slow down or stop between casinos. I took them mainly to keep my mind off Barb's driving...
Richland Farm Barn.
Bridge over the Ohio.
Where clouds come from 1.
Where clouds come from 2.
Cross and Shadow....caught a stop light for this one!
House with tree from Wizard of Oz.
Old barn and reflection.
These last pics were taken in the hotel room or from the window of the room while I was waiting on Barb, either to get up, or get ready...
Blanket swirl.
Blanket drape.
Sun on the rug.
Sunrise over Ohio - horizontal.
Sunrise over Ohio - vertical.
Again, they aren't real big so they should load pretty quick, see ya later.
Reminder
Where to start???
Went to a cool annual lantern festival in East Van. Lots of hippies around. It's great!
Vancouver also has an annual fireworks competition that I love to attend. You have to sit on the beach for a while and wait for the show to start , and all you can do is look at boring things around you.
I've visted a couple of lakes in our nice and hot August. I saw some interesting people and wild life. While up in the interior, you absolutely must visit the award winning okanagan wineries. On the way to and from the lakes, there's always something interesting to shoot when you're not driving. :)
As well as all this travel, I've also bought my first home!!! Here's part of my new view. I'm moving in 2 weeks, and then hope to hunker down and spend more time on Photographica... ;)
Hope everyone's been well and like my latest pics!
Both sides of the bridge.
Beautiful Mexico
I won (3rd in) a Canada-wide photo contest!
Which one do you think won? Which one do you like best? How could they be improved?
O Canada
Before the washout.
Myrtle Beach at night
