In the first installment of this series, I presented a bevy of photos from our trip inside the park. It was extraordinarily memorable. But in the four days we were in Gatlinburg prior to venturing inside the national park, we had a vivid taste of what we would behold once we got there. Even in town, anytime you looked up ... there were mountains.
On the first evening in Gatlinburg, and even on a couple other days, I strolled the grounds of our resort and captured the pictures you see in this post. None of these was taken inside the national park; they were all from some point on the resort grounds. And even better, some of them were from the balcony of our room, and we had a ground-level room. Of course, our "ground level" room was in a building on a pretty steep hill to begin with. So that helped. But our building had four floors above us, so I a couple times I climbed up there to enhanced the perspective.
The photos you see below with golden or amber hues in the sky or even on the mountains were taken late in the afternoon or early evening. You might call it sundown. The others, including the one leading off the post, were taken in the mid-to late afternoon. At the bottom of the lead-off photo, you can see the rooftops of a couple villas on the grounds of our resort. We were not in a villa; we were in a condo building.
That pretty much sets up this "last look" Gatlinburg series post. I don't think any of the photos below requires further captioning. I hope you enjoy the view(s) as as well as the pictures. I will note that in the fourth image below -- the one with the very orange sunset background and tree on the right side of the composition -- I didn't tinker with the saturation level at all after the image went through HDR processing (this process is explained two paragraphs below).
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Photo geek stuff: All of the images in this post were taken with my Canon 6D and Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD lens. For most of the images, the lens was equipped with a B+W polarizing filter. I took three exposures of each composition with the 6D, which I later melded the three into one image per composition using Photomatix high-dynamic range (HDR) software.
End of the series
Previously in this series:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Ripley's Aquarium
Downtown Gatlinburg
Mynatt Park
Moonshine (legal) and whiskey
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