I'm a California-based hobbyist landscape photographer who'll be in Atlanta the first week of April. Starting Easter weekend, I'll be free to spend 4 days or so shooting in the area. I'm excited about the possibilities because I'm a native Californian who's never seriously photographed in the southeast before. While easterners may have "Western landscape envy", I sometimes find myself feeling the opposite, with your great deciduous forests, fall colors, flowering trees, swamps and coastal marshes, humid red-disk sunsets and sunrises, etc.
So what would be the best landscape opportunities within, say, a 5 hour radius of Atlanta starting Easter weekend? Is it too early for the leaf-out and flowering trees in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? If so, are there lower-elevation locations in the southern Appalachians that would suit? What is the Okefenokee like at that time of year, or Cumberland Island or any of the other coastal areas?
Note - I'm looking for public land where I can roam without worrying about trespassing or other such problems. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
My choice would be Cumberland Island. There are two ferry trips daily from St Marys Georgia beginning this month. The Dungeness Ruins & nearby marsh & dunes are very photogenic. The wild horses are an added attraction. The weather this time of year is relatively dry.
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1 repliesSo what would be the best landscape opportunities within, say, a 5 hour radius of Atlanta starting Easter weekend? Is it too early for the leaf-out and flowering trees in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? If so, are there lower-elevation locations in the southern Appalachians that would suit? What is the Okefenokee like at that time of year, or Cumberland Island or any of the other coastal areas?
Note - I'm looking for public land where I can roam without worrying about trespassing or other such problems. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Scott