They are called the Great Smoky Mountains because on cool moist evenings fog develops in the low lands that looks like smoke in the morning. It is a beautiful thing to behold. The fog can change from minute to minute creating quite a show.

Morning Fog in the Smokey Mountains

Morning Fog in the Smokey Mountains 1 by Richard Lewis 2014

Morning Fog at Dawn in the Smokey Mountains

Morning Fog at Dawn in the Smokey Mountains by Richard Lewis 2014

If you are in the low land valleys, you get to be part of the fog developing. In the photograph below the mountains are barely visible through the forming “smoke”.

Smokey Mountain Evening

Smokey Mountain Evening by Richard Lewis 2014

Even on clear days haze in the valleys gives the impression of smoke.

Details of a Morning

Details of a Morning by Richard Lewis 2014

Blue Hour in the Smokey Mountains

Blue Hour in the Smokey Mountains by Richard Lewis 2014

Of all the things in the Smokies that I fell in love with, this was by far the most beautiful.

How I did It – Be in the moment. When you are in such overwhelming beauty it is great to let yourself go into the moments you are experiencing. When that happens, the way to make photographs is to know your equipment, and the rules of exposure, well enough to put the technical part of photography on auto pilot and just create. It is important to be able to get lost in the beauty and not in the technical details of exposing an image.

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