From last week’s light show let’s move to something a bit more subtle, but in my mind no less compelling: the beauty of autumn color and the wonder of moving water. By the time Porter’s Creek and Middle Prong of Little Pigeon join their waters in the center of Greenbrier Cove, they have already gathered an area whose watershed stretches from Grapeyard Ridge to Pinnacle Lead and whose moisture will one day grace the Gulf of Mexico by way of the French Broad, Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. I’m a wide-angle guy and standing at the confluence before me, I see so much more than the gathering of two small bodies of Smoky Mountain streams.

A focal length of 32mm, wide-angleland for certain, gave me the angle-of-view I wanted, to include both banks of both branches of Middle Prong around the small island and the confluence with Porter’s Creek in the foreground below me. An aperture of f/16 provided depth-of-field and with an ISO of 200 gave me a shutter speed of 1.6 seconds and an overall medium exposure.

I have used the location you see for several Images for the Asking over the years and I never fail to be touched by the Beauty and magic every one of them has shared with me.