Day two of the workshop put us out into the field on a bright sunny morning in Lea Valley and a chance to work on landscape images.  There are a couple of things you count on in the Smoky Mountains, seeing White-tailed Deer and morning fog, which gives the Smokies its name.

We also had an opportunity to do some macro work in the field. Numerous spider webs covered in dew drops provided up-close subject material.

Next we headed for some of the 19th-century structures built by early settlers in this region that are maintained by the Park Service as a glimpse of early mountain life.  The wood in these buildings have a great graphic quality (despite the graffiti of hundreds of previous visitors).

The cabins and outbuildings offer numerous subject material to photograph.  Many in the workshop practiced HDR (high dynamic range) photography with these subjects.  I photographed the oxen-yoke hanging in a barn using the available light.