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I've stopped to capture this setting every time I've been to the park since June of 2009, always with good results, but I never was fully satisfied with the outcome. I wanted something dramatic. After shooting in the rain a few times in the park, I wished for rain on Reagan's Mill every time I went. This particular morning, it was raining when we entered The Motor Nature Trail, but as we continued through the winding road, the rain stopped. I accepted that I'd have to wait for another trip to capture what I wanted. That was right up to the point we were 100 yards away from the mill, going down a hill and it poured down rain in buckets. I looked up to the sky and said, "Really, you're going to present me with this perfect setting?" I parked, got my umbrella out and set up my tripod as I had done dozens of times in the past. I shot a series of photographs there without really looking at the results in the camera. This is Reagan's Mill, one of the most beautiful settings in the n...

Our goal in our photography is to capture, not only a visually appealing image, but also the detail of the scene. Although we can not deliver the smell, touch, taste and feel of each subject, we hope you will be able to look at the subject and let your imagination fill in the senses that can't be captured in a photograph, but can in photography. We specialize in waterfalls, cascades, and landscapes. Our work has been explained as a play on light and dark. We are self taught photographers who have been shooting images only since December of 2009. Pete has the added challenge of being red-green colorblind. Nevertheless; some humbling compliments of our work include 'Stunning,' 'Amazing,' 'Truly a Beautiful Work of Art,' and of an image...