Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

The Smoky Mountains live up to their name

Last week (mid-March), Marcy and I enjoyed the opportunity to host an aspiring photographer on a photoshoot. We didn’t have to think long about a destination, and despite this being the national-park-road-congesting spring break season, we headed to Cades Cove. As it turned out, the traffic was not too bad, at least at first. We […]

FORGOTTEN IN EKLMONT

Traveling north of 60 … Congratulations to Marcy whose artwork shown below was selected by the Knoxville Cultural Alliance for inclusion in the “Arts in the Airport” Exhibition. Of the 484 entries, forty-one were selected to be displayed for sale in the Knoxville McGee Tyson Airport for the next six months. Marcy’s entry entitled “Forgotten […]

THIS IS NOT THE BARN YOU SEEK

There is a particular barn in Grand Teton National Park that is widely photographed and I figured that I wanted to have my own crack at it. The photographic Web site Flickr calls the Thomas Alma (T.A.) Moulton Barn the most photographed barn in the world – but who knew that there are two Moulton […]

winter morning in the grand tetons

There was a bit of dread in my mid-south self about rolling out of bed on this mid-January day into the 10-degree cold.  We were going to try for some sunrise shots of the Tetons and a guide would meet us at our bed and breakfast at 7:15.  Expecting the worst, I went armed with […]

THE NOT SO NOBLE ELK

Our Facebook feeds were lit up a couple weeks ago with reports from fellow photographers about their elk sightings.   In our area, the best places to see elk are Oconaluftee and Cataloochee,  both of which are on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.   Marcy and I had never been to […]

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