"Stillness in Motion" is one of my newest Smoky Mountains images. I was captivated by the autumn leaves highlighted against a backdrop of the high water in the creek. This image was taken in the Greenbrier area of the Smoky Mountains.
One of my favorite times of the year is late fall, which in the Smoky Mountains is typically the early part of November. The rush to see the peak of the leaf season is over, and the woods have a look of quiet resignation to the onset of winter, but there are still a few clusters of peak leaves that serve to highlight the muted colors of the landscape. As far as the emotional mood, it's one of joyful completion ... the promises of spring, the long green growing time of summer, the celebration of autumn ... have all come down to this sense of reaching the end and the reward of winter's rest. In our agrarian past, this would be the time after harvest, with the food safely stored for winter.
This image is often paired with Wild Autumn or Heart of Autumn, because of similar leaf colors.
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Product code: Stillness order in Motion - Great Smoky Mountains Pictures - Fine Art Print - William Britten