Detailed composition of the base of the 60 ft. (18.3 meters) tall Crabtree Falls, off the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Earlier this month, I tent camped at the Crabtree Falls campground the night before making the strenuous 3 mile (4.8 kilometer) loop hike down to the falls and back the following day. For the best viewing experience, click to view a high resolution version.
Cheers,
C. S.
Found this well preserved 19th century log cabin on the backroads in the northwestern Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
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C. S.
Many agree fall foliage is also ideal for monochrome. The ability to adjust the luminosity across the color range can offer up interesting foliage tonality. When I first got out my car on this Ashe County, NC backroad, all the cows were in the shed. As a curious bunch, it took very little coaxing to get them to pose for this landscape composition.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I’m most grateful for this WordPress and Monochromia blog community!
Cheers,
C. S.
Florence brought devastation to the Carolinas, and it will take a very long time for the land and the people to recover. In the mountains of Southwest Virginia, we were lucky in terms of flooding and power outages. This image was taken in Nelson County on the day that Hurricane Florence came through.
Florence though, was nothing like Camille, at least not in Nelson County.
On August 19, 1969, in the middle of the night while everyone slept, Camille stalled over Nelson County, Virginia, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, dropping an astonishing 27 to 31 inches of rain in just a five-hour period. The sudden inundation of water caused an entire side of a mountain at Davis Creek to cave in, destroying 23 of 25 homes.
Camille took 153 lives in Nelson County. Property damage in Virginia topped a half-billion dollars, and it was a decade before the commonwealth got back to normal.
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