1st Anniversary Vacation To The Smoky Mountains | Part 3

1st Anniversary Vacation To The Smoky Mountains | Part 3

Welcome to the 3rd and possibly final installation of our anniversary trip to the mountains! There are a lot of extra photos of Elk and random fishing-in-the-river shots, but this post holds my favorites. For the last part of our trip, we stayed with Joshua's grandparents in their cozy camper by Deep Creek. They are backed up right against the perfect rushing creek that we went fishing in. It was my heaven! Except for the fact that when we went fishing in the river, I cast all of G-Pa's lures up into the lush foliage of the riverbanks since I'm used to fishing down here in wide-open Florida! LOL. And if it wasn't in the trees, it was stuck in the river rocks at the bottom. Looks like I'll be visiting more often to practice my casting skills! :D

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1st Anniversary Vacation To The Smoky Mountains | Part 2

1st Anniversary Vacation To The Smoky Mountains | Part 2

Our cabin we stayed in was tucked away on the side of a mountain that was rich with foliage and life. Everything was SO GREEN. We would wake up in the mornings to a delightful temperature of high 60's and even though we visited places where the temperature rose to the high eighties (and possibly even 90 degrees somewhere in there), it never felt humid or choking. Of course, it seemed to the locals that we brought a lot of rain with us from Florida. LOL. This is the very same cabin and town we spent our honeymoon in last year and it was a joy to come back to it again! It is officially our special place. Last time, it was our first time up there and there was so much to see and do in the Smoky Mountains. This time, we could enjoy the cabin and town a bit more since we had done so much last time. We woke up late, ate breakfast, moseyed around the cabin for a bit, then spent most of the afternoon and evening out and about. These are a few snapshots of around the cabin we love so much!

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Adventures In Film: Chapter 3

Adventures In Film: Chapter 3

Hello! Happy Fri-yay! Today's installment of my film adventures! This post isn't about another type of camera, but a comparison between film and digital. When in the mountains, I decided to take the same frames with two different cameras. I started with film, then followed up with digital. In the first shot of every set below, you'll see a film photo and then the second photo will be digital. How fun!

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Adventures In Film: Chapter 2

Adventures In Film: Chapter 2

Hi, friends! The adventures into the good old days have continued! On my trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, I carried around a broken old Canon EOS Rebel G with drugstore 35mm and selectively chose my shots. It was so much fun!! I had it developed through Walgreens (which I don't recommend because it looks like the prints are digitally processed/printed instead of organically processed like real film).

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