This image is from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but I’d be hard pressed to prove it. This is actually from the inside of one of the historic log homes on the Roaring Fork loop.
My friend is gazing out the window and I really liked the light hitting the floor. So, I asked him to hold still for about 30 seconds while this exposed. =)
This image has sat on my hard drive for almost 6 months. Not because I thought it was a bad image, but because I either didn’t notice it when I was editing my images from that morning, or didn’t think it was worth a second look.
Well, recently I gave the images from that morning a second look and found two that stood out, and this is one of those images.
This image was captured at Shelby Farms, Memphis, TN. during my morning commute to work. I think the title is appropriate for the gosling as well as the image that almost got away.
I hope you like it.
Another image featured in the 500px weekly theme. This time it was Maddox and his Nonny on their train ride through Chattanooga last year. Visit and tell me what you think.
It’s Cyber Monday so I’ve marked down all of my fine art prints by 20%! You can browse all available art on my recently updated website at http://www.shawnbierman.com/. Just click on the Buy Prints link at the top.
My images represent some of the the finer moments of Memphis and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I work to find the beauty where most people aren’t looking and you may find yourself doubting where some of these images were created.
This sale will only last through the day so don’t wait, and remember fine art photography makes a great Christmas gift.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
This photograph of three trees silhouetted against the foggy mountains of Cades Cove, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, was created at about the same time as my Cades Cove in The Morning photograph.
It’s beginning to become clear that I like to make photographs that include a lot of fog (e.g. Pier to Nowhere).
I think this is a haunting image. The trees look very ominous in their dark and gloomy roost with their decrepit arms and tendrils reaching out over the landscape. Whew, scaring myself.
Anyways, I added a bit of a purple hue to further accentuate the dark and dreary atmosphere. I hope you like it.
As always, prints are available. You can reach me through the Contact page.
I live near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rather it’s the closest National Park to me. I’ve been there about four or five times and just booked another visit for this fall.
It’s a beautiful place with not only a lot of scenic vistas, but a great amount of history and culture. You’ll even find a Cherokee Indian reservation there.
This image is one I took from the hotel window after taking a break from the mountains. It was overcast and I couldn’t get a high enough shutter speed from my 70-200 f/4 lens. Since I left my tripod in the car eleven floors below, I decided to use the hotel room floor lamp as a make-shift tripod. Worked out pretty good and the shutter speed was just fast enough to get a crisp image and add a touch of blur to the moving vehicle.
I had a great trip to the Great Smoky Mountains this past weekend. We did the popular locations that we usually see, Cades Cove, Clingman’s Dome, Roaring Fork, etc. It was beautiful.
This image is from our first morning in Cades Cove. The fog was heavy, the light was just peaking in, the wildlife were roaming around, and the camera shutters were firing.
We had an enormous amount of fog this morning, so I knew where I would be spending my morning before work. I went to my favorite park, Shelby Farms, and took the opportunity to make some long exposure images in the fog.
The fog blends together in a silky pool of nothingness when combined with a nice long exposure. I was only able to expose for about 8″ at the most with the neutral density filter I have, so I’m going to have to invest in another one to combine and increase the exposure time.
This is the pier over Patriot Lake which I’ve photographed numerous times before, but never have I been able to capture it this way. Thanks to all of the great b&w photographers on flickr, google+, and 500px for the inspiration.
I am a fine-art photographer from the mid-south area who specializes in landscape photography.
