Category Archives: Landscape

Photo of the Week – Patrick Considine

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Early May Spring Green in Ashe

Pat Considine - Atop Bluff Mountain at Perkins Rock

Pat Considine - Atop Bluff Mountain at Perkins Rock

“The image is from Perkins Rock overlook on Bluff Mountain, looking down into Buffalo Valley. The early spring green turns gray as it climbs to the top of Three Top Mountain. The sky cooperated with wonderful clouds that shadow the ground and created great color in the sky”, is Pat’s description of this early May capture of mountain ridges in Ashe County. The camera is a Nikon D80 fitted with an 18-135mm f/3.5-5/6 lens at 31mm. The aperture selected was f/22 and the shutter speed 1/250 sec, both indicating a very bright day. Oddly enough the ISO was a high 1100. For making a large print with maximum sharpness and low noise, an aperture in the f/8 to f/11 range with a low ISO of 200 would have been preferable. This is a fine portrait of the mountains we call home.

Photo of the Week – Peyton Hale

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Perfect Design and Execution by Nature

Peyton Hale - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Peyton Hale - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

You may contract with a landscape architect and spend thousands of dollars with the best landscaping firm to execute the design and not even come close to what nature provides if just left alone. This excellent capture by Raleigh member Peyton Hale is proof of that fact. This scene was found on the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River in the Tremont region of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee side. The plentiful rain and mild spring this year led to a profusion of flowering dogwoods, spring green foliage and plentiful flows in the streams and rivers.
Peyton’s camera is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II full frame DSLR fitted here with the EF17-40mm f/4L USM lens zoomed to 25mm. He chose a slow shutter speed of .6 second to capture the gentle motion of the water’s flow and f/13 for sharp near and far focus. He added a Singh Ray LB Warming Polarizer to bring out the rich spring colors.

Peyton is scheduled to present the program at July’s meeting.