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Fontana Lake before the storm

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September 17th, 2014 - 11:45 PM

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Fontana Lake before the storm

What can I say I like nature photography.More following that genre even father animals and landscapes. My portfolio is full of them. Now this shoot was different than anything I had previously done. The shoot was done from a moving train.

I took about 1200 images that day. This is one of my favorites. The smoky mountains are in the background the lake up close and a cloud reflection over the water. The conditions were just right to shoot it with an unfiltered 50mm lens, which at 11am is a rarity. I took the trip with my good friends Captain and Mrs Captain, Annette, Chandra, Austin, and Caleb. I believe everyone was shooting pictures on this trip. We would shoot a few and then go to one another and say "hey check this out". As far as photo shoots go, they are all a good time, but this one was different and special. It is not often we go as a group all shooting and sharing what we captured. When we do it makes for a memorable trip.

SO we are on this train, which is traveling about 20 miles an hour and we came up to the lake. Wow what a breathtaking sight. The challenge was, we were crossing the lake on a train trestle (train bridge), with about what seemed like a billion obstructions in the way. The only thing you really could do was shoot in burst mode to try to capture a few good images between the beams and supports of the bridge. This one was timed perfect.

I still sit and look n amazement of the blue skies, the reflection off Fontana Lake of the clouds, the formation of the clouds over the smoky mountains, and reflect on how enjoyable this special trip was. I look forward to doing it again in the fall. The view i am sure will be nothing short of spectacular.

About the train ride itself. The Nantahala Gorge Excursion carries you 44 miles from Bryson City, NC to the Nantahala Gorge and back again. It travel the Little Tennessee and Nantahala Rivers across Fontana Lake and into Nantahala Gorge. The Cherokee Indian word Nantahala means "land of the midday sun"—an appropriate name for a forest in which deep mountain gorges and valleys are illuminated only when the noon sun is directly overhead. For the photographers out there "the golden hour" is most of the day. "The golden hour" is generally 1 hour around sunrise or sunset where there's enough light to shoot without using a long exposure or needing filters to block the glare from the sun. Noon is the worst time to shoot landscape photography because the glare from the sun on the landscape is at its highest.

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