The Mill at Cades Cove Metal Print

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When camping at Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I spent part of one day touring some of the old buildings in this isolated valley on the Tennessee side of the Park. The first Europeans settled in the Cove between 1818 and 1821, with the population growing to close to three hundred by 1830. (Source: National Park Service) This working gristmill has been nicely restored. A one-second exposure captured the rotation of the mill's wheel being powered by water.

Don Mercer is an author and freelance fine art photographer. Research for one book took him to the middle of Cambodia in 1999, as he was the first from among his wartime unit to return to that country. During the War in Southeast Asia - known to most as the Vietnam War, he flew over two hundred combat missions as an Air Force pilot in the Cessna O-2A. His combat assignment was as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. The majority of his combat missions were flown in Cambodia at night. While in Southeast Asia in 1970-71, his interest in photography intensified with the purchase of his first two of numerous Nikon cameras. Black and white, as well as color, 35mm, and Super 8 movie films were used at the time. The transition to digital...