I thought it would be neat to share some of the many views I was fortunate enough to experience on my Appalachian Trail hike. So I’ve been going through the photos and thought I’d put together a couple of themes. The first theme is “Trails” because that is what I saw the most of…trails. Trails
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The Appalachian Trail – In Pictures (Trails)
Posted: December 20, 2011 in Digital Photography, Environment, HikingTags: Appalachian Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Hiking, Photograph, photography, Trail
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Weekly Photo Challenge (Self Portrait)
Posted: December 18, 2011 in Digital Photography, HikingTags: Appalachian Trail, DailyPost, digital photography, hiking the appalachian trail, photography, point and shoot camera, postaweek2011
The Daily Post is hosting a weekly photo challenge. I think this is a fabulous idea and have been enjoying the other posts from bloggers around the world – especially their unique interpretations on these challenges. This is my first week and the challenge is to take a self-portrait. Here’s my entry: View from below I took [...]
Works
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Digital Photography, HomeTags: B&W Photos, Black-and-white, Camera, digital photography, Photograph, photography, Techniques and Styles
So I’ve been doing some reading about digital photography and have been playing around with my little camera. There are some cool effects you can do in software designed for photographs. I’m finding myself partial to black & white photography. For some reason, “old” pictures speak to me moreso than full-blown colour. Here are a [...]
New Machine
Posted: December 9, 2011 in Digital PhotographyTags: Ansel Adams, Art, Artists, Olympus, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Photograph
I live with artists. Two of ‘em. If you have ever lived with or known an artist you would probably agree with me that they can see art where “normal” people like myself, can’t. Take this Picasso piece, for instance: This looks like a kindergarten class had fun with crayons, at least to me. Frankly, [...]
Orb – Roan Mountains, North Carolina
Posted: September 6, 2011 in Digital Photography, Hiking, Paranormal, unexplainable, WildlifeTags: Appalachian Trail, digital photo, Hiking, Outdoors, Photograph, photography, Roan Mountain
Continuing my hike along the Appalachian Trail, I walked through the Unaka Mountains. This tract of mountains, including Unaka Mountain, Roan Mountain, Round Bald, Jane Bald, and several knobs, are some of the most beautiful the AT passes. The feeling one gets whilst hiking along is that of traversing on sacred ground. Not as an intruder [...]
Orb – Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Posted: September 4, 2011 in Digital Photography, Hiking, Paranormal, unexplainableTags: Appalachian Trail, digital photo, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Hiking, photography
From April through August, I hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Massachussetts (you can view my Trail Journal here: www.trailjournals.com/sage). The goal was to reach Katahdin in Maine but I fell roughly 600 miles short due to a knee injury. While hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, I had a [...]
