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Have you checked out Instagram yet?  If you have not, it is a must have.  I downloaded it to the iPhone today.  So far, I have only found one  downside, only 15 in app filters.  However, they appear to be very open with their API and other camera apps are picking up in that area; one notable is 100camerasin1.  Instagram is easy to use, fast and it connects with facebook, flickr and twitter.  Check me out on instagram I am @darylclark.

Blueridge Sunrise

The jury is still out on whether I like the east coast or the west coast better.  I really love the size and vastness of everything on the west coast / west of the Mississippi, but I love the gentleness of the eastern mountains.  This was another shot from the top of Blood Mountain.  You can really see why it’s called the Blueridge Mountains.

I have been posting photos on several Flickr groups and have gotten some good feed back.  If you have not checked out my flickr stream, it’s on the right.  I was reading some posts over at Tim Stanley Photography and it made me think.  I love landscape photography, but conditions are not always what I want, which makes it difficult to focus on photography sometimes.  However, Tim was talking about focusing on the smaller things instead of the mountain views.  I did not think much about that until later when I was taking sunset photos.  I began to think of some of the small things around, which may be good photos.  I will post some experiments in “finding the small things” soon.  Lesson learned: look at the small things as well as the big picture.

This is the southwestern view from the top of Springer Mountain.  I loves how the fog was still hanging in the valleys below waiting for the sunrise.

This was probably one of the most fun sunrise photos I have taken in a long time.  Awake at 0230, on the road at 0300, at the trail-head at 0500.  Began hiking just after 0500 and at the top of Blood Mountain at just after 0600.  Blood Mountain is the highest peak on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia.  We started the hike at approximately 3000 feet and made it to just shy of 4500 feet.  2 miles, 1500 feet and a beautiful sunrise.