If you have ever hiked toDoyles River Falls in Shenandaoh National Park, you have probably noticed that it has two levels. The first level drops into a pool which then has several rivulets that cascade down from there. Normally there is so much water that it is difficult and dangerous to cross the river and climb to get a view of the pool. This year with all of the snow melt and the ground saturated with water, it would be particularly difficult. When I photographed this view the area was in a bit of drought, so it was pretty easy to make my way over for this view of the upper...

Back to landscape panoramas today. This is a pretty amazing sunrise on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. I’m prety sure that this was at Tunnel Overlook, what really caught my eye here was the silhouettes of the trees against the yellows of the sunrise, the heavy clouds added a lot dram to the composition. Don’t forget that we’ll be at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend with Craftmens...

This is the companion to yesterday’s Photograph of the Day. One of the great things about sunrise is that you rarely ever know what’s in store for you on any particular day. This is especially true when you travel 8 hours to get to a location an hour before dawn. Weather and cloud cover predictions are as accurate as always — about a 50% chance of accuracy (to borrow a phrase from the meteorologist’s bag of predictions). If there is no impending or active storm system in an area, I have always found it best to take a chance and make the...

Today’s panorama is the last in this series of portrait orientation panoramas. This is photograph is from an overlook on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. There are not enough visual cues in this one to remind me of which overlook this is. I can narrow it down to an easterly facing overlook in the central section. So the possibilities are Tunnel, Hemlock Springs, or...

This is one of my favorite black and whites from Shenandoah National Park. We had gone to the park for the express purpose of hiking White Oak Trail. When we arrived on skyline drive we were greeted with conditions that are fairly rare in this area. There was very dense fog, high gusty winds and freezing temperatures. Under these conditions, a thick layer of frost accumulates on one side of all of the foliage making some pretty remarkable scenes. At this time, I had a full beard, which, under normal conditions, kept my face a bit warmer than bare skin. However, I achieved the same effect as all of the...