Standing Tall Against All

This is another photograph taken during my latest offshore assignment in Tennessee, this is taken in J. Percy Priest Lake during fall season. The... more

by Franklyn Cabahug

Title

Standing Tall Against All

Artist

Franklyn Cabahug

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Photograph

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This is another photograph taken during my latest offshore assignment in Tennessee, this is taken in J. Percy Priest Lake during fall season. The main subject here is the young cypress tree growing in the lake, its leaves are already in dark orange color but not all of them and still intact and not about to fall into the lake. It is surrounded by lake grass with three huge stones or boulders almost fully submerge in the foreground on the right side of the frame towards the main subject on the left. On the back is the other side of the lake and the sky has a bit of color due to the setting sun.

This is a long exposure photograph taken almost sunset on a windy afternoon which makes the grass and part of the tree blur or moving. It should be a sunset scene but I made a big choice to sacrifice the sunset to capture this photo because the lake shore that has nice view is on the other side of the setting sun otherwise I wasn't able to have this photo taken.

J. Percy Priest Lake is a reservoir in north central part of Tennessee. It is formed by J. Percy Priest Dam, located between miles six and seven of the Stones River. The dam (easily visible from Interstate 40) is located about 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville and impounds a lake 42 miles (68 km) long. The lake and dam are named for Congressman Percy Priest.

The lake covers portions of Davidson, Rutherford and Wilson counties and consists of 14,200 acres (57 kms) of water at summer pool elevation 490 feet (149 m) above mean sea level. The water is surrounded by 18,854 acres (76 kms) of public lands; 10,000 acres (40 kms) are devoted to wildlife management. The site of the former town of Old Jefferson was inundated by the reservoir; the community was demolished in the early 1960s for the building of the dam.

The Percy Priest dam project was first authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1946 under the name Stewarts Ferry Reservoir. An act of Congress approved July 2, 1958, changed the name to honor Congressman Priest. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project was completed in 1967.

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December 2nd, 2012