Ashley Fetner Fine Art Photography

Cherry Grove Beach is located along the Grand Stand of Coastal South Carolina between Charleston, South Carolina and Wilmington North Carolina. It is between the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west.   This is the Cherry Grove Inlet as it was in the early 1970’s prior to the construction boom on the north end of the beach.
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“Mesa Arch Trail”

 In Canyonlands National Park you can look thousands of feet down to the Green & Colorado Rivers or thousands of feet up at the red rock pinnacles, cliffs and spires that nature has provided for Utah’s largest national park. This image was taken as we hiked along the slickrock desert trail in the Island in the Sky region toward Mesa Arch.
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“Canyon Meadow”

Riverside Walk is a two mile round trip trail that begins at the Temple of Sinawava and follows the Virgin River along the bottom of the narrow Zion Canyon. The Virgin River has carved a gorge in the upper part of the canyon 16 miles long, 2,000 feet deep and sometimes only 20 to 30 feet wide. At the end of the trial you can continue on to hike the Zion Narrows. Which means you will be hiking the Virgin River in swift cold water along with constant dangers such as flash flooding and hypothermia. You must have the right equipment and good planning before continuing into the canyon.  Along the trail I was surprised to find this small meadow thriving between narrow canyon walls-
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Sunset Beach and Bird Island are the Southernmost Islands of North Carolina’s Brunswick Barrier Islands.  Access is by a one lane pontoon bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway.  Sunset Beach has more of a “beachcomber” feeling than the larger beaches on the Grand Strand.  As you walk toward the west end of the beach it joins with Bird Island, a 1,300 acre uninhabited state preserve, that provides important habitat and nesting areas for threatened or endangered birds as well as the Loggerhead Sea Turtle. Along the beach near the dunes you will find a bench and a mailbox—“The Kindred Spirit Mailbox” Here you can sit and read “personal notes” written in journals or on slips of paper or perhaps share your own thoughts with those to come-

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 This amazing bridge in Fayette County West Virginia, part of the New River Gorge National River, was opened October 22nd 1977 and has become the symbol of West Virginia.  It is 3,030 feet long, 876 feet high, 70 feet wide which makes it the highest steel arch bridge east of the Mississippi River and the second largest in the world. The third Saturday in October is Official Bridge Day, the states largest one day festival.  The bridge is closed to traffic and visitors can walk onto the bridge and experience the breathtaking views of the New River Gorge.  You can watch parachutists jump from the center of the bridge, rappellers doing 700 feet rappels from the bridge and you can also have the opportunity to do 600 feet ziplines off the bridge. (I don’t think so!) You can explore the New River Gorge area by bike, hiking the trails or taking the Fayette Station Road Auto Tour.  A spur of the National Coal Heritage Trail, this narrow hundred year - old road of hairpin curves, is a 7 ½ mile loop  that winds down to the bottom of the New River Gorge crosses a small bridge and winds  up the other side.   At the bottom, you can walk onto the Fayette Station Bridge that crosses the New River, and view the New River Gorge Bridge.

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The Humpback Covered Bridge, built in 1857, is the oldest covered bridge in Virginia. The wooden arched bridge located on its original location, spans 100 feet over Dunlap Creek, a tributary of the Jackson River. The bridge was built 4 feet higher at the center giving it the “humpback” appearance. The area is now a 5 acre State Wayside Park and is listed in the National Register of Historical Places. It is located near Covington Virginia on route 60.
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 “Silver Sunrise”

Cherry Grove Beach is located along the Grand Stand of Coastal South Carolina between Charleston, South Carolina and Wilmington North Carolina. It is between the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west. 
The view from our cottage after an early morning storm-
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 “St. Paul’s Methodist Church”

Little Rock South Carolina is the oldest town in Dillon County and was settled prior to the American Revolution. St. Paul’s Methodist Church was originally known as “Liberty Chapel” and originated when a preaching station was organized, by Francis Asbury, on the Little Pee Dee River in 1786. In 1871 a new building was built in Little Rock and the named changed to St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Behind the church, surrounded by a brick wall, is a beautiful cemetery with headstones dating back to the 1800’s.
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 “Meander Canyon Overlook”

 Dead Horse Point State Park, near Moab, is perhaps Utah’s most spectacular state park. The 5,200 acres of land sits on the edge of the plateau just north of the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park. Sitting 6,000 feet above sea level it has the most breathtaking 270 degree views of red orange canyons, ridges, buttes, pinnacles and cliffs. In the far distance of this image you can see the La Sal Mountains, Utah’s second largest mountain range.
We walked about a ¼ mile over a rocky shelf then Ashley had to climb down to a smaller ledge to photograph this view.
 I held my breath-
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 “Midway Geyser Basin”

Midway Geyser Basin is a collection of springs and geysers along the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park. The geyser basin is located in a low flat area that was left uncovered by surrounding lava flows. Midway Geyser Basin is an extension of the Lower Geyser Basin but due to the isolated location between the main features of the Lower and Upper Geyser Basins, it became known as Midway. In 1889 Rudyard Kipling visited Yellowstone and referred to Midway Basin as “Hell’s Half Acre”. This steaming geyser field is home to two of the worlds largest hot springs, the Grand Prismatic Spring and Excelsior Geyser. Large colonies of algae, cyanobacteria, thermophiler and other heat loving micro-organisms tint the thermal areas with brilliant colors.
Yellowstone is just unbelievable——
Kay