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Date Taken: 07/10/2017
Location: Big Bradley Falls (Green River Gamelands)

Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Lens: EFS 18-135
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 Seconds
Aperture: F/22
Filters: Syrp Variable ND
Exposure: Aperture Priority
How I Got This Shot: Big Bradley Falls is not an easy place to get to but we managed to get to the base of the falls one Monday afternoon and had the place to ourselves. It was late in the day which allowed for some really long exposure times. Taking advantage of that I setup the tri-pod and snapped as many pictures of this beauty that I could.

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Date Taken: 08/03/2017
Location: Otter Falls – Seven Devils, NC

Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Lens: EFS 18-135
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 8 Seconds
Aperture: f/16
Filters: None
Exposure: Aperture Priority
How I Got This Shot: It was late in the afternoon so there wasn’t a lot of light which is perfect for waterfalls. It wasn’t a busy day at the falls so I was able to get down to the creek, setup my tripod, and click off a nice long exposure.

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Date Taken: 07/22/2017
Location: Skinny Dip Falls, Milepost 417 on the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina

Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Lens: EFS 18-135
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: .6 Seconds
Aperture: F/22
Filters: Syrp Variable ND
Exposure: Aperture Priority
How I Got This Shot: I set up on the rock just before crossing the bridge and was able to get this picture. We were there early and had almost exclusive access to the falls despite it being a Saturday. Within two hours there were over 100 people at the falls.

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Location: Upper Waterfall on Little Lost Cove Creek, near Linville Falls
A short but steep hike from the Blue Ridge Parkway leads to Little Lost Cove Creek and this beautiful, rarely seen sixty foot waterfall.

Camera: Canon T3i
Lens: Kit Lens 18-55
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Filters: None
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: When shooting lower flow waterfalls like this one, I like to use a tripod and a slower shutter speed with remote shutter release to capture the smooth flow of water. This is a two shot panorama, each taken with the same exposure but one focused short on the boulder at left and the other focused deeper into the picture on tree leaves. Blending the two exposures allows me to create a photo that is sharp throughout even though I used a large aperture.

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Location: Boone Fork Creek. Milepost 300
Boone Fork Creek intersects the Tanawha Trail on the slopes of Grandfather Mountain in the High Country of northwest North Carolina. This shot was taken October 4th of last year.

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Location: Upper Falls Graveyard Fields
Divine Intervention

As I was hiking the mile and a half trail leading to the Upper Falls at Graveyard Fields in North Carolina this past weekend, I kept thinking to myself how nice it would be if I could get a shot of the falls with a nice blue sky showing above them. I wasn’t holding out much hope, since I hadn’t glimpsed blue in the sky all weekend. I finally arrived down below the base of the falls, set up my camera on the tripod, and patiently waited for a handful of people lingering in the shot to be on their way. After a few minutes, the hikers headed back down the trail, leaving me alone with the falls. Just as I settled in behind the lens, lo and behold, the clouds parted, giving way to a beautiful blue sky. I fired off as many shots at as many different exposures as I could before the clouds moved back in, never to leave again. I do believe someone upstairs was lending me a helping hand.

Camera: Nikon D-90
Lens: NIKKOR 10–24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
Focal Length: 10mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2
Aperture: F/19
Filters: circular polarizer and neutral density
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: I set the camera on a tripod with a portrait composition, just downstream from the falls a ways so I could include some of the foreground boulders in the shot as well as the sky. I was very lucky to catch some blue sky after I set up, as it only lasted for a moment and was never seen the rest of the day. I only exposed at a half second so I could catch some detail in the waterfall without it becoming just a blur of white.

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Location: Glassmine Falls Overlook, Milepost 361.

“Glassmine Falls – It’s described as an ephemeral waterfall but on June 10, 2013 is was real and beautiful with plenty of waterfall after a day of heavy rain and showers. At 800 feet, it is one of the highest waterfalls in the eastern United States.”

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Photo by: Anita Gatrell

Location: Cascade near Crabtree Falls VA. Milepost 27.

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