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Frozen Dry Falls

According to the calendar, there's less than a month of winter left! Realizing that, I traveled to Dry Falls in Highlands, NC, on a whim this past weekend to lo...
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According to the calendar, there's less than a month of winter left! Realizing that, I traveled to Dry Falls in Highlands, NC, on a whim this past weekend to look for more winter pictures, since the weather (erroneously) predicted more snow. Though the snow didn't come, old snowfall and mounds of ice persisted underneath and around the falls.
I left my place in Atlanta at 3:45 AM, arriving at Dry Falls about an hour before sunrise. Thankfully, North Carolina and Georgia departments of transportation had done a great job at salting the roads, which made travel relatively easy.
The first shot is a classic perspective on Dry Falls, shot from the main walkway. Since the barren landscape lacked interesting color, I then used the telephoto lens to segment out what I thought was most interesting - the veil of ice and water, with the frozen walkway behind.
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