Tunnel Vision Blue Ridge Parkway Great Smoky Mountains Art

by Reid Callaway

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Tunnel Vision Blue Ridge Parkway Great Smoky Mountains Art

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Reid Callaway

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Photograph - Photography

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Tunnel Vision.......by Reid Callaway
Blue Ridge Parkway Great Smoky Mountains Art

This image was a First Place Award Winner in the Autumn Landscapes Competition on Fine Art America 2021.

NOTE...
This image I call "Tunnel Vision" has been chosen for another Front Page Cover image for Thompson Tractor from Birmingham, AL on their employees benefits publication for 2021. Thank you so much!

NOTE...
This image was used for the Front Cover image for the Blue Ridge Parkway Travel Guide for 2019. It was used along the Blue Ridge Parkway in these locations:
#1 - Inside the Blue Ridge Country magazine May-June 2019
#2 - As a stand-alone Front Cover photo for the Blue Ridge Parkway Travel Guide 2019 distributed at the following locations for a full year:
AAA Offices
VA State Welcome Centers
NC State Welcome Centers
Local visitor centers/tourism offices
Resorts
Hotels
Attractions

About the image....
The sun had just come up on the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway giving its wonderful light to the colors in this beautiful fall image. I parked my truck just ahead, around the curve, out of sight... to walked back and capture this image. There are several sister images here among my images if this view is not quite what you are looking for. Enjoy!

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. The parkway, which is America's longest linear park, runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, mostly along the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. Its southern terminus is on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina, from which it travels north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and offers access to the Skyline Drive. While the two roads join together end-to-end, they are separate and distinct entities, built as two different projects and managed by two different National Park Service units. The Blue Ridge Parkway was built to connect Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The parkway, while not a National Park, has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since 1946 except two (1949, 2013). Land on either side of the road is owned and maintained by the National Park Service and, in many places, parkway land is bordered by United States Forest Service property. The parkway is on North Carolina's version of the America the Beautiful quarter in 2015.

The Blue Ridge Parkway tunnels were constructed through the rock; one in Virginia and twenty-five in North Carolina. Sections of the parkway near the tunnels are often closed in winter. (Due to dripping groundwater from above, freezing temperatures, and the lack of sunlight, ice often accumulates inside these areas even when the surrounding areas are above freezing.) The highest point on the parkway (south of Waynesville, near Mount Pisgah in North Carolina) is 6053 feet or 1845 m above sea level (AMSL) on Richland Balsam Mountain at Milepost 431, and is often closed from November to April due to inclement weather such as snow, fog, and even freezing fog from low clouds. The parkway is carried across streams, railway ravines and cross roads by 168 bridges and six viaducts.

The parkway runs from the southern terminus of Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive in Virginia at Rockfish Gap to U.S. Route 441 at Oconaluftee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, North Carolina. There is no fee for using the parkway; however, commercial vehicles are prohibited without approval from the Park Service Headquarters, near Asheville, North Carolina. The roadway is not maintained in the winter, and sections which pass over especially high elevations and through tunnels are often impassable and therefore closed from late fall through early spring. Weather is extremely variable in the mountains, so conditions and closures often change rapidly. The speed limit is never higher than 45 mph (72 km/h) and lower in some sections.

Featured Image in these FAA Art Groups and many more:
* 500 Views Group 8/18/2020
* Art Forever With You 11/1/2019
* World Landscape Lovers 10/31/2019
* All About Light 10/22/2019
* Out Of The Ordinary 9/8/2019
* Your Very Best Photography 9/5/2019
* Starving Artist Photography 9/2/2019
* No Place Like Home 3/9/19
* USA Photographers 4/2/19
* Just perfect 2/8/19
* The 200 Club 4/2/19
* Premium FAA Artists
* The Niche 11/6/18
* Art Fantastic World 9/22/18
* The World We See 9/11/18
* Canon Full Frame cameras 9/10/18
* H D R Photography 9/10/18
* Nature Landmarks and Landscapes 12/7/16
* Glimpses Of Autumn 11/29/16
* Pleasing To The Eye 11/29/16

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