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Seneca Rocks in West Virginia is an iconic cliff formation where fins of resistant sandstone layer jut several hundred feet vertically out of the hills below North Fork Mountain. Several billion pictures, by everyone from casual tourists to professionals, have been taken from its front, west...

I was back down in the New River Gorge area last week. I was being juried as an accepted artist for Tamarack, a showcase for the best of West Virginia arts and crafts. I was accepted (woohoo!) which means I can submit images to the several exhibitions they have during the year as well as place...

The Blackwater River starts in and traverses Canaan Valley (the highest elevation large valley east of the Rockies). Much of the Valley is wetland and dominated by the Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge and two state parks. After about a 12 mile winding path across the valley, the Blackwater cuts a...

This kind of falls in the category of "I didn't deserve this, but I'll take it!" My girlfriend and I went down to Beckley, WV to drop off pictures for an exhibition we had both been selected for, and were just spending the rest of the day poking round the new River Gorge (our newest National...

While exploring a peat bog in the mountains of West Virginia, I came upon this fellow well out on the sphagnum moss, away from both woods and running water. He was defensive, of course, as I snapped some quick hand help pictures, but didn't flee even as I set up to see if I could do a focus...

I went out with a friend yesterday to the wetlands of the Blackwater River, in Canaan Valley WV., expecting to take foggy sunrise pictures. But the fog didn't happen, so we stuck around and took some fairly mundane shots, just to say we did. Then suddenly a light shower came off the mountain to...

I was busy processing flower pictures and almost missed this sunset, as the clouds from a rainy day started to clear out. This was, literally, taken from my front yard. (Click to expand to screen width.) Comments and suggestions welcome! Dave

Not sure if this goes here, Landscape or even City/Buildings. But it would at least seem to make sense here! The other night I had the opportunity to be in the area of our newest national park, New River Gorge NP, on a night that was clear enough for star trails without interference from...

The roads to access the Dolly Sods Wilderness and surrounding areas are closed during the winter, but just opened on April 15. The weekend was cold and very windy, with spitting snow and sleet off and on. Under these conditions clouds build up on the upslope of the Allegheny Plateau to the west...

Despite a warm March, our cold and snowy winter has delayed the blooming of spring ephemerals by about a week. While I wait, I have been experimenting with a new camera and techniques on other things. Here is a selection. I have been focus stacking for a long time, manually. My new Canon R5 is...

The rising of the (nearly) full moon through Gunsight Notch in Seneca Rocks Thursday night coincided with the last light of the sunset creeping up the rocks, leaving a window of only about two minutes where both were happening. I have been really lucky in having a clear shot at this phenomenon...

The mountain highlands of West Virginia have had a cold and snowy winter, with clouds and freezing fog enveloping the high ridges, resulting in thick and persistent rime ice. Last weekend I spent a day in the area of Bald Knob, one of the peaks overlooking Canaan Valley. The weather was mostly...

The mountain highlands of West Virginia have had a cold and snowy winter, with clouds and freezing fog enveloping the high ridges, resulting in thick and persistent rime ice. Last weekend I spent a day in the area of Bald Knob, one of the peaks overlooking Canaan Valley. The weather was mostly...

Lindy Point is an iconic overlook of the Blackwater Canyon in Blackwater Falls State Park in West Virginia. It is very popular anytime, but especially in fall, when photographers interlock tripod legs on the limited deck and rock space to catch the foliage and sunset looking down the canyon...

On the way down to Seneca Rocks for the moonrise I stopped at a not-well-know overlook off an icy country road for a distant view of Seneca Rocks. I was very lucky to find the sun angling down and striking just the tops of the bare trees on the ridgeline in front of me, and the strong tonal...

As posted last month, after a lot of planning I was able to capture the moon rising into Gunsight Notch in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia. As it happens, the next opportunity to catch that alignment was the next month, on December 27. (No it doesn't happen every month, but is more likely during the...

For your Christmas Eve, here is a portfolio of snowy images from Canaan Valley Resort State Park, WV. I decided to do these all in black and white (as there was virtually no color anyway!), and focus on a high-key treatment to try to evoke the wintry stillness. This is a scenic section of the...

These are not from today's snowstorm, which has underperformed in my area (but still delivering upwards of two feet to Pennsylvania and other points northeast of me). We had a smaller storm earlier this week, which was composed of wet sticky snow that froze to every surface as it fell, creating...

The water was falling very slowly the other day at Upper Flat Rock Run Falls as my part of West Virginia had its first sustained cold snap after a snowfall. This cirque-type waterfall is about a two mile hike from my backyard and I go there often as it has a different look in every season and...

I previously mentioned a project involving the moon and Seneca Rocks in West Virginia, and posted a picture that was not quite what we were shooting for, but which was nice anyway. Certain elements of that project remain unfulfilled, but last Friday I was able to capture a key element: the...