Hemmed In

My time at Monte Sano might be shorter than I thought.  I always knew there would come a day when the valley was filled with roads and streetlights.  There are very few compositions left where I can frame them out of the picture.  But now a faster problem is growing:  Trees.

The only way to get an overlook in the South is to cut trees. As you can see in every picture I take, forests cover the mountains completely here.  So, unless you cut some down, no overlook. And they grow back.

The tree at the top right will stay — as it should.  It's a black walnut — the one I use for a silhouette so often.  But the one on the lower right is where the Sun rises in about December.  If I move left, there's another one hiding in the black shadow on the left and it will poke through the horizon.  In short, I'm getting hemmed in.  And, evidently, sunrise watchers aren't very high on the priority list at State Parks.  (Or any park for that matter.)

Yes, I still have that idea of mine for a Photography Park.  A place where photography would come first.  Campers, hikers, bikers, birders, picnic(ers), yoga practitioners, runners and all the others would be welcome.  But photography would come first.   

From the overlook (for now) at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.

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

100mm

F8@3 seconds

ISO 400

GND filter

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