Finally had some free time over the last few days to take some more photos of the beautiful scenery in the area, and figured some of y'all would enjoy them.

So very calming and serene. My daughter dabbles in photography and asked me to ask you what kind of camera? Digital or 35 mm? If 35mm, what film & shutter speed? If digital, how did you get the movement of the water captured? What kind of flash or speed for the 1st pic?

I, of course, have no idea what she's asking! I just use a point and shoot HP digital. I've never even figured out what all the buttons are for. I'm not dumb, just technically challenged!

Thanks for the kind words taylor and Lavender.

taylor, I apologize for not getting to your questions sooner.  I have quite a few different cameras I use, but I've gone mostly digital at this point.  All the photos on this thread were actually taken with my "pocket" camera, which is a Nikon P5000 point and shoot digital.  Even though it's a point and shoot, it offers a fair bit of manual control, and I've found the quality rivals and even sometimes surpasses my more expensive digital SLR.

Blurring of the water is accomplished by using a slow shutter speed.  This can be accomplished with most digital cameras by setting the ISO to the slowest setting (I used ISO 64 for these, which is really slow, many cameras may only go as slow as 100 or 200) and setting the camera in aperture priority mode, which allows me to stop down the lens to it's lowest setting.  Essentially, the more I stop the lens down (for example setting it to F/8.0 instead of F/4.0 or F2.8) the less light the camera gets, and therefore needs a longer shutter speed to get enough light to make a properly exposed photo.  I've found that a shutter speed of 1/15 or slower will usually get the blurred look with fast moving streams and waterfalls.

The last photo in the list was a 1.1 second exposure at F7.6.

Hope that answers some of her questions.  I'd be happy to answer any more.  (Can ya tell I like talking photography?)

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Thanks everyone, I'm glad y'all have enjoyed them.

Country, here is a link to a bigger version you can use for a desktop if you wish.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2162940926_5718e08b39_o.jpg

A few more shots from some recent weekend adventures...

Keep sending and we'll keep admiring.

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Scott, those are great!  What kind of trip setup did you use?

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Every day, I see scenes worthy of a picture . . . sometimes the view looks like a painting.

Coming back from Rabun County around 5:00 p.m. recently, I saw scene after scene of valleys with green rolling hills surrounded by mountains. With the late afternoon shadows, it WAS a series of paintings!

Then you come into Towns County and see the lake sparkling like diamonds in the setting sun.

Gorgeous.

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Thanks for all the great pics Scott!

i have to make some pics too as im back up there.

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