Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers outstanding vistas over the surrounding mountains, especially at sunset. On this particular May evening, I took photos well into the blue hour after almost all the other photographers had left. I focused on capturing the receding mountain ridges, which became abstract shapes in the diminished light.
I wanted to echo, in a more abstract way, traditional Chinese landscape paintings, which often used layers of landscape, such as receding mountain ridges, to help achieve the illusion of three-dimensional depth. These paintings have influenced my landscape photography. When I have visited Clingmans Dome at sunset, I have tried to see the landscape through the lens of traditional Chinese landscape painting.
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