This was another fantastic event in Townsend, Tennessee with 125 nature & landscape photographers gathering for a few days of shooting, instruction, and community.
This was my third year attending, and my second year as a volunteer “Camp Counselor” and it was the best one yet. My friend Jeff Martyka arranged some great pre-event adventures for us, and then the Summit itself was also a ton of fun.
Jeff on a rock in a river in the middle of the night in the forest. Good times A bit of cloud inversion around sunrise Bathroom door in a restaurant/laundromat (yes) where we had breakfast and Jeff was accused of being a vegetarian Fiery sunset from Blue Ridge Parkway Cataloochee Valley Cades Cove Dew drops on spider silk The always-entertaining Winklemans as we walk back to the car after seeing a trio of bears Jeff hard at work That’s legendary photographer Joe McNally taking a picture of… ….me