{"id":947,"date":"2014-05-10T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T14:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2014-05-10T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T14:47:17","slug":"why-are-they-called-the-smokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Why Are They Called The Smokies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, go figure.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 Emily, Evan (Katie&#8217;s beau), Carl (my best bud), and I took a trip to Great Smoky Mountain National Park in late April to shoot wildflowers, among other landscapes.\u00a0 The last spring trip to the Smokies did not yield much in the way of flower images.\u00a0 Mother Nature&#8217;s timing does not always match up with mine, which was the case the last time around.\u00a0 But all reports this year gave indications of a great year for flora, and that the time frame for our trip would line up very well with blooming season in the Townsend\/Gatlinburg areas.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m going to begin my series of posts with the end of the trip.\u00a0 Carl and I were driving home, exhausted from a week of sunrise to sunset hiking and shooting.\u00a0 Our photography trips are relaxing in the sense of being away from work and enjoying nature.\u00a0 But, we always keep a long, busy schedule scouting, chasing light, and shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty minutes into our return, as we were making our way up the Gatlinburg side of the 441 parkway headed south, we turned a corner only to find an amazing bank of fog smothering the mountainside.\u00a0 This was an inspiring scene, and it instantly reminded me why these ARE the Smokies!\u00a0 It is hard for me to describe how quickly things were changing.\u00a0 The fog was descending from above and moving in all manner of directions similar to a snow storm.\u00a0 The movement was very visible, and the scene literally changed from shutter click to shutter click (second by second).\u00a0 As beautiful and iconic as it was to the eye, it was extremely hard to capture what I was experiencing.\u00a0 There were also 5-10 minute periods of rain, so in and out of the car I went frequently and often.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy, and make it a point go spend time in the most visited national park in our beautiful c0untry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_948\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-948\" title=\"IMG_0755\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0755-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0755-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0755-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0755.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSMNP &#8211; Smoky overlook between Sugarlands and Newfound Gap<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 70-200L f\/.2.8, 70mm, 1\/4 sec. @ f\/13, ISO100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, go figure.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 Emily, Evan (Katie&#8217;s beau), Carl (my best bud), and I took a trip to Great Smoky Mountain National Park in late April to shoot wildflowers, among other landscapes.\u00a0 The last spring trip to the Smokies did not yield much in the way of flower images.\u00a0 Mother Nature&#8217;s timing does not always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}