by Lui Umano | Apr 25, 2015 | April 2015
Just before the forest turned to green and changed the nature of the reflections in the water of Smokies streams, I played in Greenbrier just above the rapids in the lower section of Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River. The sky was clouds-and-blue, and last...
by Lui Umano | Apr 18, 2015 | April 2015
There is no more iconic location in Great Smoky Mountains National Park than Cades Cove; and the high point on the Cades Cove Loop Road is perhaps the most iconic of all. Maybe that’s why I don’t photograph it very often; but sometimes I just can’t...
by Lui Umano | Apr 11, 2015 | April 2015
Whenever I find myself alongside the flowing stream of Little River in Great Smoky Mountains National Park I feel that I am in the great circle of waters that enfolds the planet, for this anything-but-little river begins existence on the flank of Clingman’s Dome...
by Lui Umano | Apr 4, 2015 | April 2015
Late one afternoon this past week I drove slowly up Little River Road looking for the gold and blue reflections for which this stream is so widely known, especially in spring: blue from the sky and gold from last year’s leaf litter which covers the opposite,...
by Lui Umano | Mar 27, 2015 | March 2015
Luftee Overlook in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is quintessential Smokies high country. Like a sentinel it watches over Beech Flats Prong and the headwaters of the Oconaluftee River; and even though it is considered one of the finest sunrise locations in the...
