I had these photos on my disk for a week, and didn’t even check how they turned out.
I felt guilty about not posting anything yesterday (no time) and almost not posting today (no idea), so I finally decided to look at them. Well… Not exactly what I remembered. It was a nice Saturday afternoon walk on the sunny maybe slightly cold day. We were surrounded by yellow leaves, on the trees and on the ground. Yellow seemed to be prevailing, almost no red at all. Some post processing to bring the atmosphere of this afternoon back.

On today’s post, two things come together. Few days ago I discovered an interesting recipe for gingerbread. I decided to ignore the fact that it is not a holiday season yet (although you may get this impression when you enter local Lowes) and bake the bread after all. I needed just one ingredient, which I bought yesterday, baked the thing and, surprisingly, the second loaf survived for today’s photo session. Which turned out not so good, for what I blame my 30$ tripod. Maybe I should bake more and sell some to raise money for 120$ tripod?
So the other thing came in handy, and these are Lightroom Presets. Reading enough blogs, I found few places from which you can download Lightroom Presets, with Matt Kloskowski’s being my favorite.  Make  enough tries, and so-so photo may turn out to be rather interesting one.

This is one of the macro photos I took when I was looking for fall foliage around town.
The grass on the fields was covered in the dew on that cold morning.

My technical blog will need to wait some more. I dragged some work from work tonight to finish up, and also the technique itself seem to require more study that I initially thought. But it is coming. And I hope I am doing good with keeping the interest .

Meantime, I am preparing some photos for a contest organized by local Rec Center.  I went out few times to shoot fall around town with this contest in mind. This one was taken on the late cold morning in October, when the town and around was covered in autumn fog.

I am working on another post, technical one, and looks I won’t get it finished today. So just relaxed Sunday post from Smoky Mountains trip.

I think I am getting a bit mono thematic, but I really enjoy shooting water. Waterfalls, streams, even rain. In Smoky Mountains National Park, wherever you turn, there is something flowing somewhere. So I was just shooting and shooting. This is Little Pigeon River, flowing along the park road on the North Carolina side of the Newfound Gap road.

Mingus Mill is one of less crowded places in Smoky Mountain National Park at the beginning of October. Running water, fall colors- what else do yo need for your photo?

Well, I knew there has to be something to the name of the Smoky Mountains. And I didn’t have to be there long to figure it out. By the way, this panorama, shoot at Newfound Gap viewing point among few dozens of other tourists,  is a result of pure coincidence – shooting pictures all around in Manual Mode. Having all photos in Lightroom, it just turned out the two photos overlap and can be easily stitched…

On our train trip, train stops in Nantahala Outdoor Center. Some opportunity to watch people have fun with whitewater rafting and checking out how else you can utilize canoe.

The train models in the Smoky Mountains Trains museum in Bryson City was a great object for photo session.  Well, it was fun to watch by itself. Even if I didn’t have few hours to kill before train trip departed and even if I had no camera with me. But I did, and this photo is one of my favorites from that day.