This is another photo from my trip to the Sope Creek area of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. This shot is from Sibley Lake which is near the parking area. I was walking around the edge and noticed the clarity of the water. I almost could not tell where the shore ended and the lake began.
On the south shore of the Tennessee River and at the edge of Ross Landing is a pier that juts into the River. It is the dock for the Southern Belle Riverboat. I wanted to get some good shots of the pier, but found that the shots of the Market Street Bridge and Ross Landing were much better with the lighting.
When I was a little, I went on a family vacation to Disney World in Orlando. I remember that part of that vacation, we went to see Cape Canaveral. I don’t remember if we went to the beach while we were there. Several years ago, I was in that area and decided to stop by Cocoa Beach for a little while. It was cold and windy, but there were people all along the beach. I found this one brave sole setting up an umbrella.
There are very few bad views in Fall Creek Falls State Park in Tennessee and during the fall, they get even better. From the Fall Creek Falls overlook, you can see a large portion of the gorge that Fall Creek and Cane Creek run through. Across the gorge from the overlook is the Rocky Point Overlook. I took the short hike around the top of the falls to Rocky Point, but chose to stay at the top and not work my way to the edge. It was all I could do to keep the kids back from the edge. It’s a long way down from the top.
Probably my third favorite plane at the Udvar Hazy building was the Enola Gay. This is one of the planes that helped end World War 2 in the Pacific Theater. Unfortunately, this plane carried more destruction in its belly than most other war planes carry in their entire existence. Knowing what it did just makes being in its shadow that much more awe inspiring.
Lately, it has been gray and dreary or clear and bright, but not much between. Imagine my surprise when I ran across these beautiful clouds just as the sun was dropping below the horizon. This is one of my favorite photos to process. It is a deviation from most of the HDR work that I have been doing lately. However, you can never have too many tools in the toolbox.
This past Friday evening was Family Science Night at the Tellus Museum. It was tons of fun, but the best part is that I got to run around for a few minutes afterward taking some shots of the satellite dishes. Okay, that was not the most fun part, watching the kids build stuff and play on the heavy machinery was better. Back to the satellite dishes. As we pulled into the parking lot, I noticed that they were lit up nice and bright and I set about trying to get a good angle. When I shot this one, I was not expecting to get a small meteor, but if you look just above the museum, it is there. If I could figure out how to read the Fireball Camera information, I might be able to find it’s track through NASA.
What kid does not like dinosaurs? For that matter, what adult does not? I guess that is why there are so many museums around that have a dinosaur exhibit. The Tellus Museum in North Georgia is no exception. They have everything from a Saber tooth tiger to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. They even have a giant sea turtle. This is a shot of its massive head and one flipper. I can’t imagine that this would be much more dangerous that a modern sea turtle, but I would not want to take the chance.
I was walking around Manassas National Battlefield Park when I ran across a field of bluebells beside Bull Run. I have seen bluebells before, but not in the abundance that I saw flowing through the woods. I decided to do a little checking and found on wikipedia that bluebells at typically “associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violet–blue flowers in “bluebell woods“. I guess I found one of those “bluebell woods”
During my hike in the Sope Creek area of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, I ran across this small brook that emptied from the bottom of Sibley Lake. I loved how the water just seemed to flow over the rocks and how clear it was. There are very few creeks or rivers that are clear in North Georgia. For as much rain as we have had recently, this was completely opposite from Sope Creek, which was completely muddy.
