Monday

Today was our second big travel day. After the 4-hour drive to and from Savannah the 2-hour drive to Helen was a welcome relief. We had initially traveled to Savannah to attend a photo workshop taught by Katherine Kolyb. The trip was amazingly helpful and a huge success as it helped us capture a number of impressive photographs of both the forest and the beach. James’s blog goes into greater depth on the trip. But alas, today we traveled up a Jeep trail to the top of Tray Mountain above Helen, Georgia to capture some fantastic pictures of the stars. Along the way we stopped at a antique store where I captured some portrait shots of the owner in front of his 1965 International pickup while James took some pictures of the inside of the shop. We also stopped in a field to take pictures of a tractor and some farm equipment. Farm equipment is cool. I got a great shot of the tractor with grass in the foreground and a mountain in the background. Once at the top of the mountain we set up camp and spent a couple of hours in firelight doing astrophotography. I captured some amazing pictures of the stars since there is absolutely no light pollution here. As I type this James’s camera is taking pictures of the sky and we will hopefully be able to combine them into one star trails image.