Last mill shot, I promise. I just haven't ever been here before and it really is a unique location. It would be great for portraits or fashion work. This shot would make a great painting too. It is really quite small as mills go and as I said yesterday very hard to get good light. All in all a good place to photograph. Don't miss a chance to visit Berry College just north of Rome, GA. If you like to photograph deer, I probably saw around 250 while I was there.
The moral of this post is "never waste a good trip to the cardiologist". I use a doctor in Rome, GA home to Berry College. I decided to use the rest of the day to ride around and shoot. This is the old mill on the mountain campus. I had never been to the mill in all the times I had been there. It is way over photographed and painted in my area, but I tried to find a more interesting angle. It was a perfect day for the mill, as it tends to be very overcontrasted without overcast skies. I spent the rest of the day traveling around the Rome area and will post more over the next few days.
Another shot from my Amicalola River shoot last Sunday morning. This was taken under the bridge, one of many piles of snags up and down the river. I guess we've had some good rain sometime recently. Very interesting since the river is hardly more than a couple feet deep in most places. I really liked the graphic quality of this shot along with the light. Hope you enjoy!!
Another beautiful shot of the river. I was just thinking back on my trip to the Amicalola and remembered that I didn't see a single piece of trash while I was there. That in itself was a great thing to see, I guess people really take care not to litter at a place like this. Thanks to all who took out all their trash. I usually have to pick up a piece or two from my shots, but not here.
Good Morning. Well I got up yesterday at 4:30 AM, packed all my gear, got in the car and headed out. I wanted to go to a place a friend told me about, The End of the World. It is a section of rapids below GA Highway 53 on the Amicalola River. By far one of the easiest places I have ever been, just a short walk on a wooden boardwalk and an even shorter walk once the boardwalk ends.
Another image from Church Row in Louvale, GA. This is the altar in the church built pre civil war in Louvale. It has been repaired from a lot of roof leakage and is now watertight and repainted. They are not quite done with the interior, but at least it's dry now. This area will be part of the Providence Canyon workshop in April. Hope you enjoy!!
What a peaceful scene. This image was taken in Louvale, GA at "Church Row" just north of Providence Canyon Park. This will be part of our workshop in April 2009, try to join us for the fun. Details can be found at http://mikenalleyphotography.com go to workshops and classes page. We hope to have a great time.
Who would have thought it would be open! I just kept trying doors until I found one open. This church was originally located about 200 yards from where it is now, but would have been in the bottom of the canyon. Many years ago the local people raised it up and put it on logs to roll it away from the edge. What a job, sounds a lot like building the pyramids. Lots of character, texture and a really great cemetary. I hope to visit the canyon again this Friday for some more shooting. Hope you enjoy.
The details are set for our Providence Canyon spring workshop. The dates are April 4-5, 2009. We will spend the first day around and in the canyon shooting the rim and the floor. There are also some abandoned automobiles and a church which are very cool. The park opens at 7AM and closes at 9PM, the light may be gone before 9PM, but we will stay out until dark.
Another abandoned car at Providence Canyon. We went to photograph the canyon and we wind up shooting old cars for about an hour. You never know what you will find when you go to shoot. These cars are amazing and very accessible. There were about 7 or 8 of all kinds over about 2 acres.
Another Providence Canyon shot. These cars are from an old abandoned homeplace. It was not possible to move them and they decided to just leave them there. They are really pretty cool to shoot and make for another view on life around the canyon before the state took control. Providence Canyon is one of the most out of the way parks in Georgia, there were very few people there, we actually didn't see anyone in the canyon itself. Everyone should visit this park, it is absolutely amazing. Hope you enjoy!!
Here is the first quicky image from the Providence Canyon Shoot Monday. This is the first image I shot, it is an HDR from the rim about 9AM. The light actually takes a while to get down in the canyon, a great place to shoot if you like to sleep in. Our trouble was traffic in Columbus on our way down. This is an amazing place to photograph. The possibilities are endless, from the canyon rim, the canyon floor, the old abandoned cars, the wildlife and the church.
Louvale, GA., church row. Melvin is getting ready to start painting his 3rd church here on church row. There are a total of 4 churches in this small almost abandoned town in middle Georgia just south of Columbus. We stopped here on our way back from Providence Canyon yesterday. I really had to work hard to get him to let me photograph him, he wasn't much on having his photo made. He was a great guy and has been working on all the churches in the town. What a job he had to do, he was scraping with a putty knife and hand scraper.
Here is another shot of the full moon in December 08. The moon was as close as it gets to Earth on this night. The image was taken at Hwy. 92 in Acworth, GA. The lake was low and the moon was right. The temp was about 23 degrees and that is cold, but it was all worth it. It was an amazing moon and clear sky. This was exposed for about 10 seconds at f16 at ISO 400. Hope you enjoy!!
Nothing is more fun than shooting at night. This image was taken on Allatoona Lake in Acworth, GA. The Corps of Engineers drain the lake every winter for flood control, hence the low level of the lake. I shot this at around 7PM about an hour after sunset, the light you see in the sky is from the shopping area around the highway and the foreground is lit by streetlights. The exposure was for around 20 seconds to make the water appear very smooth. The warm foreground and the cool background complimented each other very well and made for a very unique shot. Hope you enjoy!!
This image was shot on top of one of the balds near Lake Santeetlah at about 5,000 feet. We had to get this high in order to see any fall color. All the vegetation up here was scrbby and stunted from the wind and altitude. The entire top of the mountain was like this, but what a cool place to be on an October day. Hope you enjoy!!
"Happy New Year" to everyone. This image takes me back to early fall when I made a trip to North Carolina in mid October. It was one of the better fall trips in spite of the 3AM departure time. We timed it just right as we arrived on Lake Santeetlah at sunrise, with the fog rising from a temp of about 34 degrees. Boy was it cold, but well worth it.
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