Smoky Mountains living up to their name

[John Allen]

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

But where are the colours John? meanwhile I enjoy this

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Excellent John. The layers from this landscape are superb fading to the distance , but what sets it of is the tree, but I guess you know all this.

 

[John Allen]

Thanks, Ivar and Julian. The tree definitely made this picture in my opinion. These are really old mountains. The full name is the Great Smoky Mountains. The geologists say they are nearly 500,000,000 years old and were once as high as the Alps. Time has had her way with them until the highest peak in the Smoky Mts is now only around 2000 meters.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Superb comp. I also like the toning - very subtle. Nice one, John!

 

[Brian Moore]

Misty mountains always give a nice distance effect. Lovely shot, John.

 

[John Allen]

Thanks, Rob. The mist and the sky were a blue haze while the trees were a solid carpet of dark green. It was a bit tricky to convert to b&w. I wish I could have shot it with b&w film.

 

[John Allen]

Misty mountains always give a nice distance effect. Lovely shot, John.

Thanks, Brian. As the name implies, those mountains are almost always misty. I even wrote a poem about it called Misty Mountain Sanity.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Thanks, Brian. As the name implies, those mountains are almost always misty. I even wrote a poem about it called Misty Mountain Sanity.

There is a place here for your other hobbies revealed, so a poem would be welcome. By me anyway, as I at times do so too.

 

[John Allen]

There is a place here for your other hobbies revealed, so a poem would be welcome. By me anyway, as I at times do so too.

Maybe sometime in the future. I want to work on my (film) photography before getting sidetracked with other posts.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Maybe sometime in the future. I want to work on my (film) photography before getting sidetracked with other posts.

Yes as a man, one has to take one step at the time. 24 hours a day, right?

 

[Keith Hollister]

I spend most of the summer in SW Virginia in our Airstream travel trailer and step outside my spot and overlook the mountains every day. The other name of this range is the Blue Ridge Mountains (as in the Blue Ridge Parkway that winds its way through them), so as you might expect they are normally both misty (smokey) and blue.

Photographing in IR will cut right through the haze, yielding a very different perspective, BTW.

Where was this taken, John?

 

[John Allen]

I spend most of the summer in SW Virginia in our Airstream travel trailer and step outside my spot and overlook the mountains every day. The other name of this range is the Blue Ridge Mountains (as in the Blue Ridge Parkway that winds its way through them), so as you might expect they are normally both misty (smokey) and blue.

Photographing in IR will cut right through the haze, yielding a very different perspective, BTW.

Where was this taken, John?

This was taken from the deck of a chalet a bit north of Gatlinburg. I believe that far distant range on the right side of the picture is part of the Le Conte massif viewed from the north. In the early evening, we would look out on that vista while sitting in the hot tub with a bottle of wine and some soft music playing on the stereo.

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nicely done, John and I too like the toning as well as the fine texture. Nice.