Thursday

I woke up fairly late today, that was a mistake. James had already been up for hours and he began making hot dogs when I woke up.  Hot dogs turned out to be strangely good breakfast food. After demolishing a plate of doggies we got in my car and headed towards Tallulah Gorge. The drive took an hour and a half but the curvy roads make it a blast. By the way, all roads would be better if there were full of cambered corners. Anyway, Tallulah Gorge was awesome, or as James described it: gorgeous.  We hiked around Tallulah Gorge for four hours and took some incredible photos. Tallulah Gorge might as well be the stair capital of the world because I don’t think I’ve ever been up and down as many stairs as I did today, not counting Buddy Warren’s middle school track day. While on the South Rim Trail James and I got really lucky and captured some great pictures of some vultures and what I think were hawks. James got a great picture of one in front of the waterfall and I was able to capture a longer exposure photo of a vulture during a dive. I really liked how the longer exposure resulted in a cool sense of motion. We then hiked along the rim trail for a few miles (another bajillion stairs) and figuratively stumbled upon a damn where we were able to get some long exposure pictures of the water flowing off of the damn. Because the light was fading I was able to leave my camera open for two seconds, which resulted in a really cool photo. Since Tallulah Gorge was our only destination for today we began our journey back to the lake house where we are staying. I’m really looking forward to later in our project when we can look through and edit our photos for the book.