Room With a View

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 book 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.