As we started down the Mississippi, we were surprised to see long stretches of sandy beach. This is evidently not what you would usually see. The river is extremely low, and we had vacillated back and forth about whether to…
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Lower Mississippi River (Oct 6 to Oct 31)
As we started down the Mississippi, we were surprised to see long stretches of sandy beach. This is evidently not what you would usually see. The river is extremely low, and we had vacillated back and forth about whether to…
Color Harmony
Falls colors are nothing if not color harmony – artistically and psychologically. Cool mornings, crunching leaves under one’s step, light more yellow now and lower in the sky mark advancing life cycles. It’s the color, whether the stronger palette of New England’s hills or the more muted one in the Smokies, that we take as […]
October 27, 2012
Hi again,
The Travels
of YOUNG AMERICA are looking a lot like the Travels of Linda and Fred. Lately, YA appears to be doing a fair amount
of staying in port. As we’ve said, we
fit cruising into our life, wherever that may t…
NY, MA, ME, Louisville, KY, NY, Evansville, IN
Hi again,
The Travels
of YOUNG AMERICA are looking a lot like the Travels of Linda and Fred. Lately, YA appears to be doing a fair amount
of staying in port. As we’ve said, we
fit cruising into our life, wherever that may …
Entropy
One weekend task was to produce and submit an image that embodied our Zen word. We drew our Zen assignments. Dee’s was Color harmony. Mine was Life Force. OK. Whatever. Let’s go to work. And then I ran into some almost totally decayed vacation homes from the pre-park era. Decay, color, gnarly stuff, great structure. […]
Afternoon Delight
And now back to regular programming: enjoying the scenery that’s just about everywhere. Want a special place? Go up to the end of Tremont Road in the park near Townsend. Walk up a nice flat trail (former logging railroad bed) past this waterfall. Keep going because the fun begins up stream. Here the stream is […]
Stretching
Workshop phase two: think about style. Think about what our style is. We all have one. An awareness of one’s style can assist the evolution of creative vision. So we looked at famous photographers with distinctive styles and were sent forth. The really great aspect of this workshop was the group of pros that assisted […]
Composing in the Woods
Photography workshops are everywhere. So many, perhaps too many, photographers do them. One benefit is that these mentors take folks to the good spots. In the Smokies that is a lesser concern. Almost everywhere is a good spot. So we needed strong educational value to get an appropriate bang for our buck. The basic approach […]
Home From the Hills
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 […]
