Photo Essay — Great Smoky Mountain National Park

[Matt Tucker]

Here is a little photo essay of sorts from my trip to Townsend, TN and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park from June 2 – 9, 2006.  I would love comments on the photos below.  The photos were dumped as RAW format, and quickly changed to JPEG for use on the web.  I will further select the ones that I want to edit and manipulate them further — but these are as they were generated.  If you have comments for the ones below as to how to handle the NEF file, it would be greatly appreciated too.

You guys are lucky bastards, to live in such a beautiful place.

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Pic # 1
A family photo opportunity.  Just what exactly is an international biosphere?

Pic # 2
Somewhere on the Foothills Parkway

Pic # 3
Somewhere on the Foothills Parkway

Pic # 4
I struggled in trying to get a sunrise or sunset shot, but the skies were definitely cool to look at.

Pic # 5
An overlook of Cades Cove from Rich Mount Road

Pic # 6
A look at the average size fish that I caught in GSMP (this photo was taken by my 9 year old daughter)

Pic # 7
They just don’t build them like they used to.

Pic # 8
A look at an old homestead / barn in the Smokies.

Pic # 9
A photographer’s helper at the top of Grotto Falls, sporting FC headwear.

Pic # 10
An old mill raceway on the Roaring Fork Nature Trail.

Pic # 11
A whitetail doe inside of Cades Cove.

Pic # 12
A view of Cades Cove.

Pic # 13
A view of an old homestead at Cades Cove.

Pic # 14
A look inside Tuckaleechee Caverns

Pic # 15
It is hard to imagine that a bug could damage the trees ontop of Clingman’s Dome like this bug did.

Pic # 16
Another view from the pathway on the way to the top of Clingman’s Dome.

Pic # 17
Tim Doyle showing me how to get it done, on a feeder creek to Lake Caulderwood.

Pic # 18
The most beautiful spot on a stream in the smokies.

Pic # 19
My first trout from a lake, that is a true lake.

Pic # 20
Me standing in front of the same Dam where the Harrison Ford classic, “The Fugitive” was filmed.

[Steve K.]

Ozark….nice photos!

My favorite is #10. Nice color and composition! I can almost hear the water gurgling. #13 is neat too. I can see myself in a rocking chair on that front porch 🙂

So how was the fishing on Calderwood? Is that where you caught that nice brown trout?

Smokies fishing can be tough. Do be fooled though….some of those streams hold some decent fish. I always do better when I hike a good distance from the car and fish in the late evening. Also in the Fall, those big browns run up those little feeder streams from the lake!

Thanks for sharing!

Drifter

[Matt Tucker]

Calderwood was a tough day.

[bryan hulse]

Nice essay! It is sad that the Smokey Mountain haze is, for the most part, a lot of pollution now. It is still a beautiful area and once under the canopy most of it is forgotten.

You have a beautiful little photo assistant and fishing buddy there. “Take me fishing because my wedding will be sooner than you think.” That’s only one of many reasons to pass on fishing to our children.

Thanks for sharing.

[st.simon]

You were in my old stomping ground.

[Zach Matthews]

Nice stuff, Matt, I recognize many of those places.

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