Fairytale Autumn

One of my favorite haunts is the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in Gatlinburg. Here I was on a wonderfully foggy, wet and drizzly October morning at the peak of the autumn season.

Several photographers passed me as I continued to survey my surroundings. They said, “Hey you got to shoot this red tree over here.” It was about at this time that my eye saw something in the opposite direction. Through the mist and the wet and the fog I saw this wonderful twisted small tree in the center of the forest. The whiteness of the fog was making the autumn red colors pinkish.

This play of light and colors gave way to one of my favorite autumn landscapes.

“Fairy Tale Autumn” appeared in the coffee table book titled, Anthology of Appalachian Photographers, and is a favorite among my private collectors.