Still life with a rose sub­merged in car­bon­ated water. Feb­ru­ary 2020.

I love wide shal­low stream beds. I also like dynamic and churn­ing creeks and rivers too, of course, but there is some­thing very mag­i­cal about see­ing those long runs of rock you get with the shal­lower water.

This is from my first visit to Bea­man Park in April 2019.

With record* low lev­els in Percy Priest, there were hun­dreds more yards of shore­line to explore in Decem­ber 2015. These were taken with that same won­der­ful bulk roll of T-Max 400, long expired. I’ve been pulling rolls off of this for three years now — I’m likely get­ting close to the end, and it’s been great to put this film to use some twenty-five years after it was orig­i­nally intended to be processed.

*Who is going to look it up to fact check?

Sycamore Falls is a great hike close to Sewa­nee. Takes less than an hour to make it to the falls (although there are plenty of smaller, shorter water fea­tures and bridges along the way so stop­ping often should be expected). Cheek­wood is a well-known estate that’s been con­verted into a museum and pub­lic (although you have to buy a ticket/pass to go) grounds. The pho­tos above came from being around the house itself; here is another set from else­where on the grounds. All from a 36 count end of the year roll of Neopan Acros 100.

From a late-December hike along the Fiery Giz­zard trail, taken with Neopan Acros 100 (shot at 200). Devel­oped in Ilfosol 3 1+14.

A some­what stren­u­ous trail, but well worth the effort. I didn’t bring along a tri­pod so this was bal­anced on a con­ve­nient rock. Plenty of those around for using as makeshift sup­ports! The water was so clear, and so cold, it was amaz­ing. Some­times I still expect all water to be the same as that in south Mis­sis­sippi — silty, yel­low and so thick you lose your hand three inches under. This was the total oppo­site and just beautiful.

There are more pho­tos to come off this last roll of the year, but I had to go on and post this one (which may be my favorite from the walk).

It’s time for this week’s Wall­pa­per post!

Last Sun­day, we went for a walk to High Falls in Dupont State For­est and greatly enjoyed the warm weather and mas­sive vol­ume of water from the pre­vi­ous rains. An awe­some day, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the week of weather we’ve had since here in WNC.

Here is one of the pho­tos that was posted ear­lier but cropped dif­fer­ently to (a) show more of the water­fall how it appeared that day and (b) fit com­puter wall­pa­per sizes more accurately.

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High Falls and Cov­ered Bridge, Dupont State For­est NC