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 ENTRY NO. 17 / Nancy McGregor

“Blue Ridge”
SIZE: 30 in. x 40 in.
MEDIUM: Photography/Canvas Print
PRICE: $1,847

ARTWORK STATEMENT: The Autumn leaves drew me to the Great Smoky Mountains. I'd arrived too early though and they hadn't started to change. The days were chilly though so it wouldn't be long. Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, I stopped often to take in the view. The Blue Ridge Parkway meanders through 470 miles of enchanted forest between the Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The native Cherokee people traditionally called the Great Smoky Mountains "Shaconage" and it translates to “place of the blue smoke." They were right. As dawn crested the peaks, sunshine threw rays over and under the blue smoke that blanketed the valleys and crept up the edges of the mountains. That's this picture. It is of a place made of magic and smoke and serenity.