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0945 smokey mountain sunrise	1082 parkway	8896	9550
9883	0915	0970 mountain home	0991
1015 mountain scene clouds	1168	1403 sunrise over cloud lake	1404
1420 sunrise over cloud lake	2013 looking glass mountain	2470	9537
9869	9884	0244	0799 scenic highway toward brasstown bald
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1423	1901	2010 looking glass mountain	9559
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I will lift up my eyes to the mountains...
From where does my help come?
My comes from the Lord, who made the heavens and the earth.

Some of these photographs belong in a "sea of clouds" category. The first time I saw this, I was backpacking with my father in the Hocking Hills in Ohio. When we got up in the morning, there was a layer of clouds or fog below us, and the sky was clear and bright in the sunrise. The effect was of a shining sea of clouds at our feet. I was a teenager then, so I guess it was about 40 years ago.

In 1996, I drove into Chattanooga Tennessee at night, under a full moon, and saw the same phenomenon as I drove over the hilltop at the edge of the city. On this occasion, the effect was mysterious, both dark and glowing at the same time. The stars and the moon shone bright in the crisp black sky, as did the city lights below. But the city lights were swallowed up in a translucent sea of light. This sea of light was fed by rivers, and dotted with black island hills standing up through the sea of light.

During my photography expedition this autumn I was better able to plan where I would be before sunrise and sunset. That resulted in some good shots in this category. There are also some "sea of clouds" shots in the Pano/Wide Landscape section.