Featured Work

  • Love in the Cove by Lisa Putman

    Young couple in love enjoying a sunset in Cades Cove. Other works in the Cades Cove Collection: About Cades Cove: Cades Cove (formally known as Tuckaleechee Cove) is found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA. Cades Cove / was a working farm valley until the 1930’s when the National Park was formed. The Park Service has attempted to recreate the 19th century feel of this farming valley and preserve it for future generations. Before the first white settler arrived on the scene, Cades Cove had been a part of the Cherokee Indians’ domain. Abrams Creek and Abrams Falls are features named for a prominent Cherokee chief named “Old Abram” who at one time lived in a village at Chilhowee on the Little Tennessee River. According to tradition, Old Abram’s wife was named Kate, and Cades (Kate’s) Cove was named after her. Please enjoy these other images:

  • View From Laurel Falls Trail--Great Smoky Mountains by JKStanford

    This view from Laurel Falls trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park may be familiar to many of those who have hiked the 2.6 miles (total) to and from the falls. As I recall, it offered the best glimpse of the landscape through the foliage along the trail. I was using my digital camera for the first time on this trip, and I surprised myself with how well this image turned out. It was one of those “being in the right place at the right time” type of shots. I took a few photographs of the falls, and many photographs throughout the park, but none compared to this colorful scene.

  • Bridge at the Confluence GSMNP by ThomasRBiggs

    Greenbrier section of the park. This is the road back to the Ramsey Cascade trail head. / Shot a couple years ago.

  • trees of white by Christopher Ewing

    winter of 2005/2006, river in the great smoky mountains, was a great snow that year, this is a color shot, not black and white :)

  • Mountain Splendor by Gary L. Suddath

    Remains of autumn’s splendor with a babbling mountain stream in the background. This has been digitally rendered to resemble a watercolor

Recent Work

  • Painting the sky with colors by Wanda Faircloth

    A colorful sunrise that was shot near Townsend Tennessee

  • And the clouds parted......... by Wanda Faircloth

    Sunrise shot looking out at the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

  • A hint of danger by John Wright

    Poison Ivy climbing up a pine behind Sugarlands visitor center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

  • With Tattered Wings by Graeme Pettit Photography

    Better days almost at an end, this butterfly has almost worn out its wings. The species is unknown to me, but the photo was taken in the North Carolina Piedmont area, just off the Smoky Mountains

  • Follow me, I will lead you home. by Tamela Wall

    I found this mother duck teaching her 7 little duckies how to swim. She was going so slow and they were trying their best to keep up. I just loved watching them. Hope you enjoy!

  • Mill Wheel by Gary L. Suddath

    In order to use the corn or grains for baking they had to be ground into flour. This could be done by mortar and pestle but is very time consuming using this method. Man as far back as the 1st B.C. has used hydropower to help speed up this process. The use of this power came to be known as gristmills. / A water wheel consists of a large wooden or metal wheel, with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving surface. Most commonly, the wheel is mounted vertically. Water turns the wheel then gears and ultimately the grinding stones. They are many verities of this method. / The wheel here at the John Cable Mill in Cades Cove is known as an overshot type. This gets its name from water running over the top of the wheel. This mill wasn’t the 1st in Cades Cove but by 1870 the population was large enough to support another.

  • Black Bear at Cades Cove by John Wright

    I was surprised to see any bears at all, given how late we got going that morning, arriving at Cades Cove (Great Smoky Mountains National Park) just before noon, but we saw a few, at 3 different locations around the loop. This one was the closest and clearest. I did crop a bit from my 200mm, I wasn’t really that close! The bear was quite unconcerned, but I remained aware of our relative locations at all times. One of the really nice things about Cades Cove was I saw Park Rangers at every single sighting, keeping people at a reasonable distance and telling them when to move.

  • Laurel Creek Cascade (another view) by John Wright

    Another view of Laurel Creek Cascade, on the way to Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

  • Journey To The Sea by Gary L. Suddath

    From the top of the mountain I come / In my journey to the sea / My going is never noticed by some / Glad you took the time for me They are many obstacles on my way / In my journey to the sea / The passing of some may take all day / But it does not matter to me Because I have brought you well being / In my journey to the sea / In the time it took for my seeing / Your soul has rested within thee Picture was taken along The Roaring Fork in back of Ephraim Bales cabin, GSMNP….image and poem © 2008 Gary L. Suddath

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Art devoted to the Great Smoky Mountains in the US.

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