Always looking for inspiration.. What is your current favorite local (within 1/2 hour) photo shoot location? I'll start...
Cookeville Prehistoric Museum (Cedar Ave, Cookeville). This place is awesome, a work in progress. The local paleontologist is still setting up a 40ft T-Rex! It's a working *dig* site. They are currently working bones from Montana. You can get within inches of real-time discoveries. We were given an hour long, hands on tour of the artifacts! Officially opens October 3rd.
If you have kids (or even if you don't).. Jerry (paleontologist) let us put our heads inside the T-Rex! Once in a lifetime photo-op for us.
If people are interested, I could try to set up a private tour?
Hi Tara, and thanks for starting this topic! My favorite places to shoot is my back porch (birds) and in the field next to my house. I also have a favorite sunrise place about a half mile from my house that I sometimes drive to.
However, areas that I try to go to every year include Burgess Falls, take the trail, Rock Island State Park, and Standing Stone State Park. These waterfall and water areas are especially nice in the fall of the year!
Sorry, I just read within a half-mile, and I live in Overton County! Another place I love to visit in the spring of the year is Johnson's Nursery. They always have beautiful plants. It's fun to go there in the winter months and go back into the one enclosed green house they have as well. It's well-lit and easy to shoot in.
We live in Crossville, so out back of our house...we have a 15-30' stream..depending if it has recently rained...& other water streams. During the summer my sunflowers and other flowers are in bloom, we also have an old shed that is neat looking...I'm planning on making a garden right next to that this year. Otherwise...Cumberland state park is only 10min from us. Fall Creek Falls I think is a 1/2 hr drive for us. Or just driving around some of these back roads you can find some pretty interesting things to shoot.