Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: valley

This is below Hawks Nest (Ansted), in West Virginia, from the boat landing at Hawks Nest State Park. July or August of 1998. The river's calm mostly because it's backed up behind the Hawks Nest dam. Photographed with my Nikon N90s and scanned from the negative.

Taken at West Virginia's Babcock State Park with my Nikon N90s in late September of 1999. Compare this photo Joan took last summer from a nearby location. We're looking down the Manns Creek Gorge toward the New River. After a severe downhill run, Manns Creek joins the New at what used to be Sewell, where I'm told there are ruins of coking ovens. I've complained from time to time about the high-speed film I've been scanning from my photo collection, but that's a little misleading. My pattern, historically, was to pick a specific film each year and shoot almost exclusively using that product until the next year. This means that I've made photographs with all sorts of films--so the scanning problems I've had of late were largely because I've been choosing to scan years with difficult films. This photo, in contrast, came out very nicely.

Just across the blue ridge, where the high meadows lay And the galax spreads through the new mown hay, There’s a rusty iron bridge, cross a shady ravine Where the hard road ends and turns to clay. With a suitcase in his hand there the lonesome boy stands, Gazing at the river sliding by beneath his feet, But the dark water springs from the black rocks and flows Out of sight where the twisted laurel grows. – Tommy Thompson , 1976 ============== The Chessie line crosses the New River just above the Hawks Nest dam (and just below Hawks Nest proper); Ansted, West Virginia, September 25, 1998.