Category: Outings

• May 20-25, 2019
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina
• Participants are responsible for travel, park fees, lodging and food.

Join club member and master photographer Marsha Ezell in May 2019 at a long-distance, informal outing in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This is a loosely organized outing, says Marsha, who previously has traveled to the park and loves its photo opportunities. “The park is good for non-walkers and super heroes, there are on-the-road areas and hard hikes that take photographers to fabulous waterfalls,” she says. “The great draw of the Smokies is water. There are cascades, waterfalls and still water, everywhere.”

• For information about the trip or hotels, contact Marsha.
• If you are interested in RV-ing as a group, contact club member Chad Fenner.  
• Find more information from Marsha: PDF-Marsha-Ezell-Outing-GSMNP-2019

There are photogenic cabins, churches, mills and a school, crafts and artists, the Eastern Cherokee Reservation and the morning fog that gives the park its name. The park is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 950 miles east of Fort Worth.

To learn about the park, go to:

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Explore Great Smoky Mountains National Park 
• Visit Gatlinburg

Photos, Grotto Falls and trillium grandiflorum, U.S. National Park Service

Note: Meeting time changed to 7:30 a.m. If you plan to stay for lunch, you must sign up by Tuesday, Nov 27. The plan is to eat at the highly touted Pecan Lodge Barbecue. Email Dick Dodds ddodds0402@gmail.com with your name and phone to confirm lunch attendance.

• 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1; see note above regarding lunch
• Carpool from the parking lot at UNTHSC, 3500 Camp Bowie.

 Capture the imaginative graffiti designs of Dallas’ fabrication yard and the street art of the historic Deep Ellum area at the Dec. 1 club outing.

Outings chair Dick Dodds will lead the group to the fabrication yard area near Sylvan Avenue and I-30 to find bold, sanctioned graffiti. Participants also will be able to photograph the two iconic bridges over the Trinity River. The group will then move on to the more sophisticated street art of historic Deep Ellum in east Dallas.

The group will leave the UNTHSC parking lot at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, for the 45-minute drive to Dallas. After the outing, we’ll enjoy lunch at participants’ expense in Deep Ellum. If you have questions, contact Dick.

Fabrication yards image by club board member Julie Delio.

Join us for an outing to nearby Jermyn, Texas, to photograph the century-old First Methodist Church. The building includes chairs, pews, some other furnishings and has colored glass panels in some windows. Club vice president Ken Spencer will lead the group, as we find interesting items and scenery to photograph.

After our visit, we will have lunch at participants’ expense at the Green Frog restaurant in Jacksboro.

To join this outing, plan to meet us and leave by 7 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, in the UNTHSC parking lot to carpool to Jermyn, which is a 90 minute drive.

Questions? contact Ken Spencer.

Photos by Barclay Gibson, Texas Escapes.