Rain Runner

As my long-time followers might have noticed, there are only a few place on the Bankhead Trail that lend themselves to making a good scenic picture.  (Well, at least for someone with my limited compositional skills anyway.)  That's the reason you see the same places over and over again:  The white-oak curve at the bottom, the leaning-tree curve just past the Mountain Mist Trail and this straightaway by Oscar (the rock).  All the other places don't work as compositions, or the road is busted up, or there's a sign marring the view or whatever.

All this is just to explain my thinking (in case anyone might wonder).  I don't carry a long, fast lens to catch runners and bicyclists whizzing around on the trail.  I carry one slow, does-most-everything lens to shoot sunrises, landscapes, flowers and (still) wildlife.  But hey, if somebody runs through my scenic — even in the rain — I have a setting on my camera where I can catch that.  I might even publish one after being skunked on the sunrise for 3 days in a row. 

Along the Bankhead Trail in Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Alabama.

Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

34mm

F4@1/125th

ISO 6,400

Polarizer

White Balance on Flash

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