Rivers Edge

A good place to look for interesting subjects in nature is to look at the edges of change. It could be the edge of a forest, river, ocean or even the edge of a storm. Any time you can find drastic differences in nature you find edges. In this image you are looking at a river bank that at times is under water. As the water travels it wears down the small rocks and deposits them at the tree roots. This same water caused erosion which helps to expose these tree roots. I decided the subject was black & white because of the many tones the rocks and roots had. An f-stop of 16 with a wide angle lens worked best for capturing as much detail as possible. I composed the image so there would be just a hint of the tree itself because the most interesting part of this tree was it's exposed roots. LynnFreeny.com

Interesting River Rock

I always have a camera with me. I love to find things when I am not out just to take pictures. In this case I was at a birthday party that just happened to be in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park( my favorite place for photography) . The party was alongside a gentle flowing stream with rocks that almost looked streamlined from the wear of the constant flow of the water. My wife saw it first. A rock within a rock as if one rock cradled the smaller one. My first thought was to fill the frame with the unusual site. As I thought more about the composition the more I realized in order to tell the story of these very worn rocks the river must be included. Positioning the rock to the left helps give a directional flow for the water in the image. LynnFreeny.com

Roaring Mountain Stream

When I go to the mountains I always try to visit where water flows. As a kid growing up in the Southern Appalachians summer always meant spending time playing in mountain streams that could chill you to the bone, a wonderful feeling during the dog days of August. To get the right angle for this image a had to jam a tripod against the guard rail of a bridge and hope a car didn't come along. I had to move off this narrow one lane bridge twice because of cars before I was able to capture this 15 second exposure. Notice in order to capture the movement of the water an exposure of 1/15 of a second or slower works well. The slower the shutter speed the smoother the moving water becomes. A very long exposure can cause the moving water to start looking like fog. Weird! lynnfreeny.com

West Virgina Overlook

No manner how many times I shoot infrared I am still amazed by the hidden world it reveals. My favorite time to record infrared images is in what I normally think of as bad light. Times when the sun is high in the sky causing bleached out colors and dark shadows is the time to break out infrared. lynnfreeny.com