Creekside Sweet Gum - Great saving Smoky Mountains Pictures - Fine Art Print - William Britten

Creekside Sweet Gum is one of my most popular Smoky Mountains images. I was captivated by the autumn leaves highlighted against a backdrop of the flowing creek. I recall that it was a drizzly morning, with a bit of a wind. I found the composition but had to stand patiently for 15 minutes or so, waiting for the leaves to stop waving in the breeze!

One of my favorite times of the year is late fall, which in the Smoky Mountains is typically the early part of November. The rush to see saving the peak of the leaf season is over, and the woods have a look of quiet resignation to the onset of winter, but there are still a few clusters of peak leaves that serve to highlight the muted colors of the landscape. As far as the emotional mood, it's one of joyful completion ... the promises of spring, the long green growing time of summer, the celebration of autumn ... have all come down to this sense of reaching the end and the reward of winter's rest. In our agrarian past, this would be the time after harvest, with the food safely stored for winter.

This image is often paired with Midnight Hole, to make a very attractive set of vertical prints.

All of my Smoky Mountains Fine Art Prints are hand-printed in my Gatlinburg studio on archival paper with inks rated to be fade-resistant for 75 years.

Prints are shipped in a tube, ready for matting and framing, except for the 8x12 size, which is matted.

If you are on vacation near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, please consider a stop at the William Britten Gallery, located in the Morning Mist Shopping village along the historic Arts and Crafts Trail at 601 Glades Rd. in Gatlinburg, TN.
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