Name: E Arnold
Country / State: USA
Comments: Stopped in to view the Pictures hoping for some Christmas ones.
Name: Mark Peterson
Country / State: Colorado
Comments: You've done a fantastic job in capturing the beauty and
diversity of this wonderful region. I particularly enjoyed seeing many of
the historic buildings that have so much character!
Name: Carol Johnson
Country / State: Illinois
Comments: You have some beautiful shots. Thank you for sharing them.
Name: Sheila
Country / State: Florida
Comments: I just stumbled upon your website and really enjoyed looking at
your pictures. The Great Smokey Mountains is God's Country. I usually
visit at least once a year, but it really isn't enough. Finding your
website lets me enjoy seeing the mountains when I can't be there. Thank
you.
Name: Jo Yung
Country / State: Canada
Comments: Your pictures are amazing, they take my breath away! Hopefully
you will be able to post more onto the site!!
Name: Dennis Hansen
Country / State: South Carolina
Comments: Your pictures are very beautiful, we visited the area recently
and fell in love with it we will be back, thank you for your beautiful
pictures
Name: Bill & Rhonda Jasper
Country / State: East Carondelet IL (St Louis MO suburb)
Comments: We were married in the Smokies 2 years ago October 19th. Didn't
get to visit for last years anniversary, but did this year and hope to
every year from now on. Did not find your site til after this last visit,
but will use your great references for future visits. Great work on your
site & photos!
Name: Tyler Woodward
Country / State: Ohio
Comments: I love most of your photos. I haven't been through them all.
They're very good!!! I love the Smokies. We go down there all the time,
because my parent own a chalet in Pigeon Forge. It makes my day to see
these photos. When I'm feeling bad I just get on your site and I feel
better.
Name: William & mary Taylor
Country / State: U.S.A State of Florida
Comments: Do you have a Picture of the State bird ,of the State of North
Carloina.
Name: Richard
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: Richard the pictures are wonderful. I guess you love the Smokeys
as well as I do.
Name: Heather Walsh
Country / State: Illinois
Comments: Thank you SO much for these beautiful photos. I am originally
from NE Tennessee. I grew up there, and moved to Illinois when my husband
and I were married. I will always consider the Smokies my home, but I get
especially homesick as the holidays approach. My family is still there, so
holidays are lonely. It is so great to see these pictures. I feel like I'm
back home again! Thank you!
Name: Tammy Shields
Country / State: Nevada
Comments: These are wonderful!!!!!!! The best I've seen in forever!!!
Name: Jo Gross
Country / State: Indiana
Comments: Richard Great pictures of the mountains, and I particularly enjoyed the ones of the Walker Sister's Cabin. I descend from Wyley King.
Name: Brenda Lentsch
Country / State: Bellevue, Nebraska
Comments: Richard, thank you for all the work you have put into this website. I know I have enjoyed every lovely photograph you have made available for us to see. Pure beauty of God's creation. What else can I say. So many, just leave you speechless. You certainly have a very special gift, and way with a camera. I have never been to the Smokey Mountains, just the Rockies, in Colorado, which are also beautiful! I have always wanted to go to Tennessee or Kentucky, just because it's so green and pretty. Now I know that's where I want to take my next vacation. Thanks again so much for your efforts.
Richard Replies: (Blush) Thanks!
Name: Jean P.Cooper
Country / State: Charleston, SC
Comments: beautiful photographs
Name: Scott
Country / State: Louisiana, USA
Comments: Some awesome photos...I've traveled the Smokeys for 25 years and they never cease to amaze me with their beauty....
Name: LJ
Country / State: oklahoma
Comments: this was a great way for me to find pictures for my home work!!!!
Name: DesertSkyWalker
Country / State: Tucson, AZ
Comments: Sweet! Thanks for sharing your photos. As was already stated by another Zonie, there isn't much fall foliage in Phoenix (or Tucson), so we must travel out of these areas to get our fall foliage fix! You have some very nice photos and scrs. The latest scr is very nice! Take care.
Richard Replies: My sister lived in Tucson for a number of years, all of her recollections seem to involve the word "hot!"
Name: Lindsey Reynolds
Country / State: South Carolina
Comments: I love you pics. I grew up in the va mountains and now live in sc at the beach it very nice here but nothing like the mountain. I'm home sick very often and these screen savers will be great to look at. Can't say enough about the wonderful photos. thank you very much
Richard Replies: You're welcome.
Name: G. Taylor
Country / State: Kansas U.S.A.
Comments: Thank You, I truly enjoyed the tour. Wish I was there in person.
Name: Merta C. Davis Pavkov
Country / State: Ohio/Arizona
Comments: Originally from Ohio, & the maple trees give beautiful autumn color, but the Great Smokies, I believe are the most spectacular. Being a 40 yr. resident of Phoenix, AZ there is very little color, & living in the desert makes one yearn for the change of seasons. Thank you for a most beautiful presentation of the Great Smoky Mts. in the fall.
Richard Replies: You are most welcome.
Name: Mr. & Mrs. Johnson V. Chouest
Country / State: Louisiana
Comments: AWESOME
Name: Kathleen Kruger
Country / State: Michigan
Comments: I just love your site and have already spent an hour here...planning on spending more. I just love the Smoky Mountains and this helps feed my addiction. Ha! Thanks for putting up such a wonderful website. Kathleen
Name: Coni Koehler
Country / State: Alcoa, TN
Comments: I want to thank you very much for the photos they are so beautiful. It was a dream of mine to do photography now I live it though your eyes. Also thank you for being an inspiration to my husband Randall who is also building his own site. God be with you in the Smokies and where ever you are!
Richard Replies: It is definitely a spiritual place!
Name: Phyllis Hall
Country / State: Was Kentucky, Now Florida
Comments: Your pictures are beautiful and bring back many memories of my childhood.I can only say your pictures are worth a million words.
Name: Ocean Gurl
Country / State: Bahamas
Comments: I love the beautiful pictures. These pictures sure be in a calender,on postcards, or maybe on stamps.
Name: Theresa Lee
Country / State: Tennesse
Comments: This is a great web site!!! I'll be visiting here often.
Name: Michelle Goebel
Country / State: Minnesota
Comments: Tennessee will always be "home". Thanks for the great web site!
Name: Sharon Miles
Country / State: Indiana
Comments: I love the pictures and have installed them as my screen saver. I have been vacationing in the Smokies - Gatlinburg since I was a child and have included my son, parents, and nieces in my visits for the past 10-12 years. My husband and I now bring our grandchildren with us on our visits. It is the most beautiful place to visit as far as we are concerned. Thanks for the great site. I will visit it often.
Name: Mary Lou Burns
Country / State: North Carolina, USA
Comments: beautiful pictures and a great story about Painter your cat.
Richard Replies. Thanks, others can read about Painter here!
Name: David Vetter
Country / State: Kansas
Comments: I am planning to visit the Great Smoky Mountains for the very first time next year. My wife and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and wanted to do something special. Your amazing web site has helped to convince me that visiting the Great Smoky Mountains will certainly be something special. Thank you very much and God bless you.
Richard Replies: Thanks for the kind words, David. If I could recommend one book to you, it would be "Hiking Trails of the Smokies," a comprehensive guide to trails in the park. It divulges all of the sights, best views, trail lengths, elevations and degrees of difficulty. It 's fun to peruse, my wife and I read and reread it all of the time, planning our next "expedition." (We prefer short morning hikes, followed by a nice lunch, and we drive and sight-see in the late afternoon!) you can buy the book from the non-profit GSMA by clicking here.
Name: mary & derrell rpdrigue
Country / State: la
Name: Gerald Castro
Country / State: Pensacola FL.
Name: donna
Country / State: mcadenville,nc
Comments: wonderful job of taking some of the most beautiful pictures i have ever seen / keep up the great work . this site i will visit many times through out my week.
Country / State: N.C.
Comments: I am a reserve Soldier that was called into active duty last Jan. and have been stationed very far away from home since. The beautiful pics of so many places that I have seen back home in the smokies, and several that I hope to see one day, offer me an escape from the daily stresses of work and the military. I find the pictures offer a much needed reminder of the splendor of home, and a way to stay intouch with my "roots". Thank you for such a great body of work!
Richard Replies: No, thank YOU and all of the brave men and women that serve in our armed forces. All that we have here in America we owe to you and your diligence. I know it is difficult to be deployed for month after month, away from loved ones and friends, and we can never properly express our gratitude to you. When I created Smokyphotos, I wanted to expand interest in the Smokies that would assist in funding the Park. However, the vast majority of those that write tell me that they visit to "go back home" to the mountains. It has been a source of enormous joy and gratification to me to know that in some small way, I am able to do something to help those that are away from home keep the mountains in their hearts. God bless you, I hope that you get to go home soon!
Name: mike
Country / State: florida
Comments: Thank you so much for your pictures! I grew up in eastern Tennessee, and i get so homesick down here in florida. I love looking through your pictures when I am (supposed to be) working!
Richard Replies: You're welcome. BTW I dropped your last name, just in case the "boss" is a SmokyPhotos visitor!
Name: Ann
Country / State: Florida
Comments: Richard, I spent all of my teen years in the mountains around Brevard, NC, and have many of the same photos as you show on your site. I really enjoy looking at your pics. Especially the waterfalls, which I really love. I have a picture of Looking Glass and Taxaway hanging in my office wall which I took over twenty years ago. Thank you for the screen saver so I can see some of the colorful leaves which I miss this time of year.Keep up the good work. Ann
Name: Erca
Country / State: United States
Comments: i love the pictures! Keep up the good Work
Name: chuck jones
Country / State: georgia
Name: Linda J Plavchak
Country / State: Florida
Comments: Planning a trip up to this Cataloochee Valley area, the end of Oct. 2003 and your pictures just make me want the trip to hurry up and get here!
Name: Joe Bennett
Country / State: Alabama
Comments: Richard: My wife, Pat, and I have just discovered that it will be impossible for us to make our semi-annual trip to SMNP this Fall. Except on those occasions where providentially hindered, we haven't missed going in the Spring and Fall for 35 years. Wanted you to know that after attending your presentation at the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage, we have visited your Website many times and feel like we personally visit our favorite place in the world and a special friend who truly understands our love for the smokies. My visit today kinda makesup for the trip we're missing. Thanks for your splendid photos. Hopefully, someday I will be able to add to your photos a few my own taken over the years since May 1968. Joe Bennett
Richard Replies: Hi Joe, I remember you and Pat very well! I was impressed by your "expeditions" into the Park, and enjoyed talking shop with you. I hope that all will be well by Spring and that we'll see you at the Pilgrimage again!
Name: Sandy
Country / State: Fla.
Comments: LOVE YOUR BEAUTIFUL SITE.
Name: Gwen
Country / State: Alabama
Comments: Richard, This site is breathtaking. My family loves to visit the smokies. Favorite part is Cades Cove. We really love the peacefulness of it. And it is so beautiful. Thanks.
Name: Vicky Pohoresky
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: I am from the beach which is great, but my heart is for the mountains. Have been many times from WV to GA and it is my favorite place. Your pictures are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen--love your site. I go to one of your links ---the one that says the my favorite spot on earth and listen to the music while I go through the photos. Very peaceful. Thanks
Name: judy cox
Country / State: florida
Comments: I'm not from tn. but I miss the beauty of the mountains. I fell in love with the Smokies in 1996 and I hear them calling me to come back. It's like a fever. I feel home when I'm there . Thank you for sharing them with me.
Name: Jessie Hollinghead
Country / State: Mobile, Alabama
Comments: Your pictures are wonderful! Thanks for sharing them with us. We just got back from 8 days in the Smokies. It's so hard to leave - can't wait to get back there.
Name: Jeanie Lane
Country / State: Virginia
Comments: I love this website!!!! I just love the mtns. in North Carolina and Tenn. Thank You for having this. We go to Maggie Valley at least once a yr. and sometimes more. I hope one day to have me a home there.
Name: LEslie Coats
Country / State: usa
Name: Judtih
Country / State: Florida
Comments: This pictures are beautifull I love them.
Name: Rachel Cutshaw
Country / State: Maryville, Tennessee
Comments: I'm taking my pre-school Sunday School class to the Little Greenbriar Schoolhouse in the morning and your information was very reassuring that I had made a good choice for a hike. I like your site, it is very professional.
Name: julie chittenden
Country / State: texas
Name: Linda Reece
Country / State: Tennessee
Comments: Hi Richard,I have really enjoyed your site, it is great. You have a real feel for photography. I have looked at everyone of your shots an they are all great, hard to choose. Thank you so much for hours of enjoyment. Jackson,Tenn.
Name: Diane Scallions
Country / State: Gore Springs, MS
Comments: Great photos! Can't get enough time in the Smokies! We've been vacationing there for years. My family says it's life coming home when we finally get there for vacations. We find it very hard to return to Mississippi after our time there.
Name: Brenda
Country / State: Texas
Comments: LOVE the photos. We leave October 18th for the Smokies - first time in 21 years. I've developed a passion for photography in the past 3 years, so I'm really looking forward to this trip. Thanks for such an awesome website.
Name: Barbara
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: Your website is wonderful. Picture are beautiful. Congratulations. I will go to the Smokys this WE I think or maybe next WE ! I want to see Fall colors !
Name: Jennifer
Country / State: Kentucky
Comments: The photos were absolutely breath taking.The Smokey Mountains,there is no place any more beautiful,it's our favorite vacation destination.We are headed that way in November.Thank you so much for the the info and pictures on this fantastic website.
Name: Bonnie Sears
Country / State: Florida
Comments: all I can say is thanks!! As a child, these beautiful mountains were our vacation spot. i remember Gattlinburg before it became so large! So this has given me back some of my childhood memories.
Name: corina munro
Country / State: new
Comments: I love the autumn scenery
Name: Bill Florence
Country / State: Canada
Comments: Beautiful part of the world!
Name: S. Henley
Country / State: Tennessee
Comments: I think you have some wonderful photos and a lot of good info here. I will be glad when I am capable of making such brilliant photos.
Name: Katie
Country / State: Ohio
Comments: Some truly beautiful photos on here, Richard. I've visited the Smokies a few times, and this is really wanting me to take a trip back down there!
Name: Candace Pruitt
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: This is the most wonderful mountain website I have visited yet! Keep up the good work! If anyone has other photos they would like to share with me, please email me at Candychic1@aol.com! Thanks!
Name: Mike Holland
Country / State: Indiana
Comments: The Smoky Mountains National Park is our very favorite place to visit. Looking at your photos has transported me back to the place I love so much. Thank You and keep up the great work!!! Mike
Name: MARGIE HOLMES
Country / State: USA/ MISSISSIPPI
Comments: HI, MY HUSBAND AND I AND MY EIGHT YEAR OLD (SAVANNAH FAITH) HAVE BEEN TO GATLINBURG TWICE A YEAR SINCE JUNE 1ST, 2001 WHEN WE RENEWED OUR VOWS(10 YEAR). IT IS OUR MOST FAVORITE PLACE TO BE. I AM SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR WEBSITE. YOUR PHOTOS ARE AWESOME! WE ARE COMING UP THERE OCT. 31 (FOR THE UT GAME NOV. 1ST) AND AFTER LOOKING AT THESE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS ... NOW, I AM REALLY EXCITED! TAKE CARE GOD BLESS AMERICA! GO VOLS!
Name: Douglas Brazell
Country / State: us
Comments: Fantastic Photography, We go to the Smokies every year during June and then we go back to the foothilss in Oct. But I don't have this quality in my photos
Name: Mindi
Country / State: Illinois
Comments: Awesome Smoky Mnt. pictures. Your sight is a wonderful taste of the Smokys. We love the Smokys and vacation every year in your beautiful mountains. How lucky you are to live there!!!! My fiance and I are getting married in the park in Greenbriar next week!!!!! I can hear the mountains calling now.....
Name: Karen Robertson
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: Richard, I've been checking out my ancestors - three of 4 grandparents from the Smokies. It is truly home - thank you ever so much. Karen.
Name: james taylor
Country / State: louisville ky
Comments: i do believe the you have the best photo's ive ever seen in all my life they are just beautiful everyone of them ,and just to mention it for a second ,we just lost one of the gratest singers in the world and of all time , Mr. Johnny cash ,but god was good to us to give him to us for so long he was the best of the best ,and i know you are very proud to be from the wonderful grate ,state of tennesse , ive watched him when i was a young man.i know a lots of greatest singers in the world came from those grate mountains where you live ,i was across them on my way to gorgia a couple of weeks ago they are gorous to look at too.i wish i was as fortunet as some people are to have a beautyful place like them mountains to call my home you should feel honored ,,what a heaven to live in there .thanks for the grate pictures i love them all ,i put one on my desktop ,and chane them perodicly ,very very nice .thanks agan mr taylor.
Name: PAULA MCMAHAN
Country / State: U.S.A.
Comments: YOUR WEB SITE IS GREAT.MAYBE I WILL SEE MY GATLINBURG HOMES ON YOUR SITE SOON AS THEY ARE PICTURESQUE ALSO.I AM IN THE RENTAL BUSINESS AND WILL TELL EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR BEAUTIFUL SITE.
Name: donna boston
Country / State: USA
Comments: wonderful site, we are going there in Oct. cant wait...I can hardly stand it now that I have seen it in pictures..thanks~
Name: Melissia Martin
Country / State: Indiana
Comments: Great photos!!! Seeing these makes me wish I was there. My family is from the area and as a child we used to visit several times a year. Your photos bring back memories and warm my heart.
Name: Cheryl Rogers
Country / State: Lumberton,NC
Comments: Thank you so much for these beautiful pictures. I feel that I am back home when I look at them. My heart is so happy and sad at the same time. Thank you for givig me the chance to live there again.
Name: Gail Tabor
Country / State: Louisiana
Comments: We will be in Pigeon Forge for a week starting Sept. 10. We try to go once a year and have been going for years. Your photos are truly beautiful. Thanks.
Name: Lee Swilik
Country / State: Ohio
Comments: I love the site. I have been to the Smokies and they are beautiful. I can't wait to go back. Keep up the great work.
Name: Jane Springer
Country / State: United States
Comments: My 16 year old son and myself love the Smokies in the fall. We are orginally from Indiana but now live in the Panhandle of Florida and we really miss the fall colors.We try to come to the Smokies in late October to see the colors.
Name: G Busk
Country / State: Arizona
Comments: Great photos. Nice job of displaying them, nice site.
Name: Jessica Sarraille
Country / State: Louisiana, USA
Comments: My family and I visit the Smoky Mountains about twice and sometimes three times a year. It's hard having to leave there to go home. That is why I love this site because it "brings me back" to what I like to refer to as my second home, the mountains. Keep up the good work!!!!
Name: BUZZ ZACHARY
Country / State: LOUISIANA
Comments: WE VISIT THE SMOKIES EVERY YEAR. YOUR PHOTOS REMIND US THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR OF WHAT WE ENJOY DURING OUR BRIEF VISITS. GOOD JOB!!!!
Name: Rob Walker
Country / State: New Zealand
Comments: Wonderful photos , thanks . JR Giddings is staying with us at the moment and showed us your site Rob
Richard Replies: Hope that you are all having a great time, I am currently having some navigational issues but hope to get them resolved soon. (New Server)
Name: Florence Simpson
Country / State: Canada
Comments: This is a lovely site, but I can't find what I wanted, which is pictures and identification of autumn wildflowers. If I can ever master the technique of attaching and forwarding pictures, I would certainly use some of the beautiful ones I have seen in my brief time of browsing.
Name: Carol Daugherty
Country / State: Arkansas
Comments: We moved from East TN five years ago, and miss the mountains so much, so this is great for us to have on our screen saver as a constant reminder of the beauty there our Lord has created. Thank You!
Name: Leisha Roberts
Country / State: West Virginia
Comments: My family and I visit the Smokies often and enjoyed your site very much! What kind of camera do you use?
Richard Replies: Nikon 8088s
Name: Bud Gore
Country / State: McLean, Virginia USA
Comments: Dear Richard, It has been seventy years sinced I camped the Smokies. Your site takes me home. God bless, Bud
Name: Bob Dennen
Country / State: Massachusetts,USA
Comments: Was in your Smokies the end of May,was incredibly beautiful and the people are so very friendly.......see you in SEPT Pictures are great
Name: Lisa
Country / State: Kentucky
Comments: Richard, What a lovely site with such beautiful pictures. You are a very gifted photographer. My fiance and I are getting married in Gatlinburg in just 5 short weeks. Your site and its awesome pictures has us even more excited to revisit the Smokies than we already were! Thank you so much for sharing them with everyone!
Name: Michiko Persson
Country / State: united states
Comments: WOW! i thought thesee pictures were great!im doing a report on the great smoky mountains and it helped me alot! i want to go there now!
Name: Christa Beth Mcmahan
Country / State: Nebrask
Comments: I love you pictures they remind me of home so much. I moved to nebraska when i was 8, but no that im older i know how much the mountains mean to me and you pics. make me feel like im look out my window again....Thank you
Name: Tony Spradlin
Country / State: po.box 253 Ivel Ky 41642
Comments: I was surprised and glad to find your photo of the old Wonderland Hotel. Do you have any others of Wonderland Hotel and area? I have been reading book {Last Train To Elkmont}Do you have any photos of Elkmont 1900 to present? Thanks
Richard Replies: I have hundreds, but only from about 1990
Name: Servando Ildefonso
Country / State: NY State retired to South Carolina
Comments: I have been here for about one and a half year. I can not say enough about the Great Southern Hospitality and the beautiful areas in the area where I now live One of my favorite is The Great Smokey mountain!! It is good to see what our tax dollars are spent!! I live in the Up State area of South Carolina.
Name: Doug Walker
Country / State: Indiana
Comments: Clubtown should be left alone, not torn down. Thanks for letting me show people that ghosttowns do remain. I wish I had names to go with the pictures. Thank you for keeping this home site alive.
Name: Susan Johnston
Country / State: Georgia
Comments: Dear Richard...thanks for your wonderful efforts in producing this beautiful web site with these glorious photos! I took your class yesterday 3/19/03 at the Atlanta Board & love the photo you used in our instructions. I love the North Georgia Mountains & these photos make my heart sing! You are gifted, indeed, to have the ability to take these photos and to be such a great teacher. You keep things simple for your students to understand. So .....you must be one of a kind broker, as well. Thanks for putting together your time & knowledge for the classes. All the best....Susan Johnston, ReMax Greater Atlanta.
Name: Shelby Sherman
Country / State: Tennessee
Comments: Enjoyed your site and pictures. I like to give something back whenever I can so I hope you enjoy the picture that I sent in a separate email. Caught it just right with the light and mist. Tom Kincaide would be proud! regards,
SS
Name: Debra Dixon
Country / State: United Kingdom
Comments: Many thanks for the wonderful pics of the mountains I love the autumn its colours and a peaceful time before everything dies away. I will never beagle to get to go a see the area for myself so thank you for letting me in to your beautiful area to see for myself.
Name: Carl Pearce
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: Hello,
My father( Simon Pearce) was in one of the following camps: np-4,np-5,np-14,np-15. I,m not sure which camp he was in. I am trying to contact somebody that has a roster of the mentioned camps. Maybe you can help. Thanks,
Carl Pearce
Name: seesee
Country / State: Pennsylvania
Comments: Richard... fantastic site... You've captured the beauty of TN for us all to enjoy! Thank you!
Name: Alice Rice
Country / State: Tennessee
Comments: I hope you write as well take pictures. I've sent a brochure in which I've used some of your pictures.
I particularly liked the "Road to Nowhere" for this application.
Name: Gary Holdem
Country / State: New Zealand
Comments: Fantastic. My wife,daughter and myself were visiting the Smoky Mountains in October 2002 and these pictures have reminded us of the absolute beauty that we saw when we were visiting. The pictures that I have seen on this site are as good as it gets, keep up the good work.
Name: Karla
Country / State: Mississippi
Comments: I've lived in and around Tennessee all my life and untill 3 years ago I never new such BEAUTY existed. You have done a wonderful job in capturing the tranquil beauty of this place. You have a true art of making one feel as if they are there. Thank you for all your hard work.
Name: Liliane Van Sandt
Country / State: Belgium
Comments: You make heaven on earth possible, thank you !!!
Name: Mary Nordkvelle
Email: mary.nordkvelle@ra.gsi.gov.uk
Country / State: England
Comments: Thank you for sharing the beauty of our Great Mother. I am from Scotland originally but live in London and I always need to go home to refresh my soul. Your pictures are food for the soul.
Warm wishes, Mary
Name: DICKIE LEE
Country / State: ALABAMA
Comments: Thanks for letting me and my family remember the beauty that we saw while at the Great Smoky Mountains....p.s. great photos, you have a gift.....
Name: Barbara Philbrook
Country / State: USA
Comments: I spent 17 summers and 8 years living in the Cherokee,Townsend,Gatlingburg areas. These pictures brought back such vivid memories of the mountians.
I am looking for a picture of the church (Freewill Baptist)in Cades Cove.The cemetery there is full of history if you just look!! Again your photos are GREAT!!
Name: Juanitta Baldwin
Country / State: US
Comments: Thank you for allowing me to use photos from this site on my new Web site. This site is a generous way to share the beauty of our Great Smoky Mountains. I've referred many people to it who've never been to the Smokies, and they tell me it's like taking a private tour!
Name: cathy baughman
Country / State: ohio
Comments: Your pictures are breath taking. We will be visiting the area in April 2003. Your web site makes us want to leave now.
Name: Rachel Floyd, Editor Tennes-Sierran
Country / State: USA
Comments: Please look for my email to you. Thank you!!
Name: Edward A. Wright
Country / State: Jensen Beach, FL
Comments: I really enjoyed your photo's of the Alum Cave Bluff. I am sure that I will like the others when I look at them.
Name: L. Duff
Country / State: Ohio
Comments: The Smokies are our familys' favorite vacation spot. I'd love to move there,it seems you are so alive in the mountains! Thanks for the photos(wallpaper, screen savers), I can add your photo's to the many we have.
Name: J.Charles Cripps, Esq.
Country / State: USA Florida
Comments: Dear Sir: Thank you for making screensavers #7 and #8 available.
Since I am a handicapped shut-in, I probably will never get to see the Smoky Mountains again, but I thoroughly enjoy your screen savers. When I become overexposed to one, I swap to another and revel in the beauty of the Smoky Mountains. Thanks also to your inspiration, I have become a world traveler (of sorts) via the Internet, collecting pictures of interest to me from all over the world and putting them in folders like scrapbooks. I enjoy playing with my scrapbooks every day. I have collected an extensive group of photos on the Smoky Mountains which I pull up and look at from time to time. Of course, some of these photos are probably copyrighted, so I never send them out or use them in any way except for my own pleasure. But they give me a lot of that. I wish the National Parks would make a greater effort to make pictures of each park more available. Some many years ago I visited Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior
Name: Earl C. Johns
Country / State: Kissimmee, Florida
Comments: My 1st wife and I always took a Fall trip to the Smoky's. She has since passed away due to cancer. I remarried and since that time I have not been back for over 10 years due to circumstances beyond our control. These photos help keep the memories there.
Name: Barbara Anderson
Country / State: US CALIF
Comments: My three sisters and I are meeting for our annual reuion in the Smokey Mountains this year. We will be there Oct. 8-12. I look forward to seeing the beauty of this area. I live in Santa Barbara, CA and we have many beautiful places here too.
Thanks for the beautiful photos.
Barbara
Name: Debra Renee Heltman
Country / State: Logan, West Virginia
Comments: My boyfriend and I just came back from there Sept.8, 2002. We were there for "The Shades of the Past". It's the most beautiful park I have ever seen. I grew up in the mountains, so I really felt at home there. Great job on the pictures! I will continue to print and collect these pictures. Thanks so much!
You're friend, Deb
Name: Gary Cotter
Country / State: U.S.A.
Comments: Beautiful Beautiful pictures Richard!! I never stop appreciating the art of photography. With nature photography it seems that one needs the lighting and the seasons of the year to cooperate. You apparently have the time and the patience to show off the Smoky Mountains as perhaps no one else has, complete with all your passion and certainly as extensively as I've ever seen.
Name: Bernie Atwater
Country / State: US
Comments: The Smokies are our favorite vacation spot. We come down there at least every 2 years. There is so much to do and see. We love it!!!
Name: Larry Steele
Country / State: TN
Comments: Enjoyed visiting your Smokyphotos.com site. Great collection of photos. Thanks for your kind efforts to share these with the world.
Name: Heather Lange
Country / State: Ohio
Comments: Gorgeous!!
Name: angelina LORENZEN
Country / State: Australia
Comments: Oh My It is beautiful! I am so grateful that you have shared your wonderful explorations and photographs of Gods country of The Smokey Mountains. My boyfriend has just left Indiana to find work and to find us a home in that beautiful place of peace and serenity, he has been trying to describe it to me but words fail him ,we are very much in love and have been through so much pain in our past with former spouses and childhood and we solemnly believe we will find peace and God there !! We hope to be healthier here as well and live our last days of our life in a home in the mountains, we are both in our early 40's.I have to leave my country Australia we too have beautiful mountains, you should visit our "Blue Mountains" NSW if you haven't already done so. Yes please i would appreciate any information or pictures u can send me thanku so much for sharing i can perhaps send you pictures of our country if you so wish but u only have to type in "blue mountains NSW Australia and i'm sure you will find what u would be looking for... Thank you Wish You Well!!! May God Bless Your Work!
Name: Michael & Denise Candeloro
Country / State: The Great U.S.A
Comments: My wife and i are planning on moving to jones cove and building our log cabin home.. Your area of Gatlanburg is so beautiful we hope all our dreams come true .....any info would be so helpful thank u very much...michael and denise..
Name: karen magee
Country / State: michigan,
Comments: great page
Name: Cecille Catanghal
Country / State: Manila, Philippines
Comments: I am from a tropical country, where fall colors are practically nonexistent. This will be my first time to see autumn :-). My fiancé (who lives in Memphis) and I will be taking a trip to Townsend in late October 2002. It will be our first real trip as a couple and after seeing your pictures, I can't WAIT for our trip to start :-)! My favorite shot in your archives is Photo 63 , in Photo Album # 7. Thank you so much for the AMAZING pictures!
Name: roy smith
Country / State: Iva south carolina
Name: Walter R. Bradley
Country / State: Maryland, USA
Comments: I enjoy the screen saver very much. I use it all the time. I sure wish you would open up the other screen savers. When I first started my download You had nymerous beautiful sceens for screen savers. I was cut off the interner in the last 5 seconds of the download. I was not able to get back in for over a nonth. I finially did download the one you now have. Please add some of the other screens. Maybe by rotating them on a weekly or monthly basis.
Thank you very much.
Walt
Name: Viral
Country / State: Massachusetts(Worcester)
Comments: Hi I am Viral Shah.I am studying at Clark University and doing my MBA.I am also a web designer.I have gone through your website.I think your website does not have a theme.I mean that since your website is on the photographs that you take,you need to have an interesting background and buttons which matches the theme of photograph website.
Richard Replies: Every button, background, graphic and photo on this site is my original work, designed exclusively for this site. The theme is smoky mountain wildflowers, which is very pertinent to the content.
Name: Liz Perilloux
Country / State: Louisiana
Comments: Your photos are lovely. The Smoky Mts. are our favorite place in all the USA to vacation - we camp and like the out-of-the-way spots. I recognized many of the scenes. Congratulations on a job well done.
Name: betty a.
Country / State: USA
Comments: BEAUTIFUL
Name: S&L McLoughlin
Country / State: England
Comments: GREAT PHOTOS
Name: Marko
Country / State: Finland
Comments: Great photos!
Name: K. Brown
Country / State: Indiana
Comments: I downloaded your screensaver. Your photographs are great. I am
very envious of your talent. Thank you for sharing.
Name: trevor whitmire
Country / State: usa/north ga. mtns
Comments: i just love the smoky mtns. i would live there if i could. i like to pull over at the over looks but if we were never in such a hurry to reach pigeon forge i would stop at every one. i like the clean fresh air, the cool streams and the deer at a glimpse away the bears and up close the brids. to me one of the neatset shights up there on newfound gap rd. is the loop over! you should post pictures of the loop over,cherokee,pigeon forge,more of newfound gap rd. where you can see the road better and the national park welcome shigns in every season. our famliy have been going to the smokies all the way back to my grandparents after they had there 1st out 4 kids we still go to day!
Name: JCHiatt
Comments: Wonderful site. Thank you for your hard work.
Name: M. Proctor
Country / State: OK.
Comments: Just downloaded the gorgeous fall screensaver pictures. These will brighten the dreary days of winter tremendously. Thank you for your beautiful website.
Name: lloyd g. thompson
Country / State: mississippi/usa
Comments: very nice!
Name: Chris Walter
Country / State: Louisiana
Name: Larry Kavanaugh
Country / State: San Jose CA
Comments: We just got a house in Asheville, were on our way HOME
Name: Renee
Country / State: LOUISIANA
Comments: Love your pictures - i hope to one day meet you at one of your exhibits at the townsend visitor's center. I would like to get your opinion on some of my photos of the gsm. I have some displayed on my desk at work and get complimented quite often. I don't have expensive camera equipment (fully automatic 35mm minolta freedom 90 zoom & not a pro at photography by any means but i try my best and i am usually satisfied with my photos. Thanks for this site - it is awesome - do you have any books on basic photography?
Name: Margaret
Country / State: Youngstown, Ohio
Comments: We have nothing like the beauty of the Smokey Mountains here in Ohio. Your photos are awesome - they catch the wonder and beauty of God's creation! Thank you.
Name: spencer chaney
Country / State: oklahoma
Comments: i was born in sylva north caolina i love the smokeys my family comes from north carolina hall dillard beautiful country i hope to retire back there in a few yEARS NICE WEBSITE
Name: Cindy Durler
Country / State: usa
Comments: Hey Rich,
How are things going? I haven't been on your sight for awhile. you really have updated things. Looks great.
Cindy
Name: Jimmy Grimes
Country / State: Texas
Comments: I was born in Wilkes Co., NC and really enjoy your pictures. They keep home fresh in my mind. Thank You.
Name: Joe Brinkley
Country / State: Alabama
Comments: Where is your gallery? My wife and i will be in the area after Christmas for a few days. Thanks
Richard Replies: My gallery is right here! SmokyPhotos is the only work I display!
Name: Amy Aiken
Country / State: South Carolina
Comments: The pictures are beautiful. I'm interested in a screen saver.
Name: julieann leary
Country / State: pennsylvania
Comments: I love your pictures. They are so beautiful! Autumn is my favorite time of year.
Name: Jack & Kay
Country / State: Texas
Comments: Your pictures are absolutely awesome! Thanks so much for sharing.
Name: Sandi Wangsness
Country / State: Reno,Nevada
Comments: I enjoyed your photo's so much !I was born in Tennessee and in two weeks will be in the Smoky's again ! Can hardly wait !
Name: Richard Slider
Country / State: Virginia
Comments: Richard,
I have greatly enjoyed your pictures. I can telll your heart is well into the beauty of the mountains.
Richard Responds: Ah yes, too much of a good thing. Plan your visit for January or February to avoid the crowds!
THANKS!
Name: Mark Hopper
Country / State: USA
Comments: These are absolutely beautiful photos, excellent job!
Name: Sam Rogers
Country / State: (USA) Orange Park, Florida
Comments: I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time and effort to build such a wonderful site and for your willingness to share your extraordinary photos with the world.
Name: nicky harding
Country / State: north carolina
Comments: i love this site. the smokies are beauiful.
i would love to live there!!!!
Name: Chuck
Country / State: Maine
Comments: Very beautiful pictures!! tyvm for th views of this beautiful place.
Name: Pamela Strauss
Country / State: US
Comments: I visited the Great Smoky Mountains and enjoyed myself.
Name: Tina
Country / State: Illinois
Comments: These are the most beautiful photos I have ever seen of the Smokies. It would be nice to see some of your shots of the actual cities, maybe in evening --like Gatlinburg. Wonderful photography---keep them coming.
Name: Jimmy
Country / State: Georgia
Comments: Thanks for the beautiful photographs of the Smokies. I have visited them all my life and walked many of the trails. However my health doesn't allow me to walk as many trails now. Your photos are almost like being there.
Name: Brian
Country / State: IL
Comments: You have a great looking site!
Name: Tammie
Country / State: Gatlinburg, TN, USA
Comments: Thank you for making this beautiful website of the GSM. My best friend's husband is stationed in Alaska and she gets very home sick for our mountains. Thru your website, she feels a lot closer to home!
Name: susie
Country / State: arizona
Comments: great pictures from back east
Name: Allen Owens
Country / State: USA Alaska
Comments: Great Photos! Can't wait tell you get more. Keep up the good work!
Name: Betty
Country / State: Bahrain
Comments: Hi,
I normally do not sign guestbooks - but I must say I really like your site and the way it is done. it looks like you have take a lot of time and effort to make it really nice. thanks a lot.
Name: Maria Snider
Country / State: North Carolina
Comments: Your photography is beautiful. It captures some of my favorite images. I live in Raleigh now and I can't back to my spiritual home often enough. Images embedded in my mind make me homesick (or heartsick) for the natural splendor of these mountains. Might you also get around to photographing The Chimney
Tops. I have fond memories of hiking the up to the slate walls and seeing the narrow passage between them. It is daunting. Thanks for the views from my 'puter. Well done. ~Maria
Name: Kyle Seymore
Country / State: Cullman, Alabama
Comments: Wonderful site. I was married in Cades Cove and I love the park. Thank you for your donation to bring the park to my home. God Bless You.
Name: K.Phillips
Comments: Thank-you for creating such a wonderful site!I thoughly enjoyed viewing your photographs. Please keep up your great dedication!
Name: Kyle Seymore
Country / State: (USA) Cullman, Alabama
Comments: Wonderful site. I was married in Cades Cove and I love the park. Thank you for your donation to bring the park to my home. God Bless You.
Name: Harriet McMillan
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Comments: Your pictures are beautiful and capture the breath-taking beauty of the mountains.
My husband and I went to Gatlinburg on our honeymoon and have been back to the park almost every year since and at different times of the year. The mountains are beautiful in every season. Yes, it is crowded in Gatlinburg so we now find the off-the beaten-path places and enjoy it even more. The mountains are now our kids' favorite place to go!
Thank you so much for the website where we can enjoy these pictures over and over!!
Name: Betty Higginbotham (Dyer)
Country / State: (USA) West Palm Beach, Florida
Comments: My maiden name is Dyer. My great-great grandfather, James Dyer and his wife Mary; was born and raised in Maryville, TN. James and Mary had several children, but one was William Dyer. William and his wife (do not know her name), had several children, one son Newman Dyer was my father. All of the above are deceased. I am researching the Dyer ancestry and would appreciate if anyone that reads this guest book and knows anyone of my ancestors, feel free to email me. I have viewed your website and I agree with many others of the beauty and graphic you brought to the world. Eastern Tennessee is so beautiful and I love to visit the sites. I hope to hear from all Dyer's in Marysville or surrounding towns that knew of my ancestors.
Name: Alison
Country / State: (USA) Maine
Comments: Enjoyed all the wonderful photos. We are going to tour the Smoky Mountains in the fall, and I can hardly wait to see all the gorgeous scenery. Thanks for the sneak peek!
Name: Mark Dunn
Country / State: (USA) Florida
Comments: Thanks for your wonderful webpage. I have been looking for wallpaper and screensavers of the Smokies. And your webpage is exactly what I have been looking for. Keep up the great work!
Name: JUDITH ELAINE EMERT
Country / State: (USA) KY
Comments: THE PICTURES ARE BEAUTIFUL.THE VIEWS ARE BREATH TAKING.MY PEOPLE LIVE IN TENNESEE. IT IS A WONDERFUL STATE TO SAY THE LEAST.
Name: Lisa Hancock
Country / State: (USA) Al.
Comments: Great photos!
Name: Maria Reda
Country / State: U.S.A.
Name: Dolly Wilson
Country / State: (USA) Florida
Comments: I just love the pictures, we have been to the Smokys several times and we never get enough of the view. God is so Awesome! His works are wonderful. and Thanks for sharing them...D. Wilson
Name: Linda
Country / State: Sweden
Comments: Hi Richard!
I like your pictures, they are very different to pictures I have seen before. But different in a good way!
It was a coinsident that I found this site. Lucky me!
(I hope my english is correct...)
Tack för en trevlig sida! (Thank you for a nice site!)
Richard Replies: Your English is much better than my Swedish!!! Thanks for writing.
Name: Warneida Carter
Country / State: USA
Comments: Your photos are beautiful!!! We will visit the Smokey Mountains for the first time in late spring and we are excited.
Name: Dave
Country / State: (USA) Indiana
Comments: Your photos are gorgeous... They make me want to return to your beautiful area often...
Name: Mandy Cook
Country / State: (USA) Georgia
Comments: I love this web site.
Name: James Thorsten
Country / State: (us) Michigan
Comments: Discovered the Smokies in the late 60's & have been returning each year ever since. Your pictorial website is proof positive of the reason for so many people's annual returns. When we first visited the annual tourist count was approximately 10 million--last year I heard it is over 30 million! Thanks for your selfless contribution to hearts that yearn to relive their experiences in that glorious section of the USA.
Name: alex barrett
Country / State: (USA) kentucky
Comments: noooooooooooo!
Name: randi
Country / State: noway
Comments: hi there!
i am a 15 year old girl from norway and when i`m ready with secondary school i would love to come to USA and take a high school year there. But my question is: is the high school like they show in movies with cheerleaders and all that? can someone send me and e-mail and tell me? please...
Richard Replies: The movies have no bearing on real life, school here is the same as Scandinavia!!!
Name: D. Baxter
Country / State: (USA) TN
Comments: Great Site!
Name: shawn miller
Country / State: (USA) pennsylvania
Comments: great pictures- kudos to the photographer
Name: Linda Jankowski
Country / State: (USA) Michigan
Comments: I love the Smoky Mountains and visiting your web site has brought it home to me.
Name: Carolyn Smith
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Comments: Just want you to know how much I enjoy your photos, especially recently the ones of Cataloochee Cove, as we visited the area for the first time this fall. I use your screen savers year round. It's interesting to see the angles you used. I wasn't able to get satisfactory shots of the cemetary above Palmer Chapel, I suppose because of the steep incline. Keep the photos coming.
Name: stephanie hester
Country / State: us
Comments: this is a very wonderful site! the picture are absolutely to die for keep up the great work.
Name: Jessica
Country / State: (USA) Wisconsin
Comments: Nice pictures and lots of information for school reports and other things!
Name: jeremy
Country / State: (USA) michagan
Comments: i just love it down in the smokies. thanks for all the pics on the web site
Name: teddy salyer
Country / State: alabama, usa
Comments: your website is great. i love the smokies, and have been to several of the locations which you have pictures of. your pictures capture the stunning beauty of the smokies. keep up the good work. one thing you might consider, is maybe some photos of things to do in the smokies, such as pics of gatlinburg, dolly wood, and other things. anyone who views your website will want to go there. thanks for the site....teddy
Name: Paula Watts
Country / State: (USA) Louisiana
Comments: Great site.We drive 12 hours to the smokey's once a year.
Name: JIM MELTON
Country / State: us
Comments: my mother was born in the smokies before the park came in.
Name: Kathy
Country / State: (USA) Texas
Comments: Just found your place. So wonderful, filled with pics of my birthplace the Great Smokies.
I would like to use a few if i may.You have captures the Smokies in all of her different dresses. Keep up the work. Kathy-AKA-Ridge Runner
Richard Replies: Please follow all of the accreditation requirements! Thanks
Name: Muriel Lawrence
Country / State: England
Comments: Wonderful Photo's
Thank you for sharing them
Name: florance lund
Country / State: england
Comments: great site with beautiful pictures. makes my heart sing.. thankyou
Name: Brenda
Country / State: (USA) Michigan
Comments: Wow!!!your website is absolutely beautiful! A perfect representation of God's handiwork in the Smokies. My husband & I went to the Smokies on our honeymoon and have been back every year for the last 17 years. Some people can't understand why we return every year, but if you ever experience the sights, sounds and scents of the Smokies you have to return! Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos with the world.
Name: Paula Miller
Country / State: (USA) FL
Comments: This is an awesome site. You have some very beautiful and professional looking photographs. Please consider including Cherokee, NC and the Native American Indians. The Smoky Mountains are our favorite place to visit, especially Cades Cove. By the way, the Cherokees didn't wear the full-feathered headdresses like we are used to seeing on the tv, nor did they live in teepees. I say this to let you know to research before taking pictures. Thanks, Paula
Name: Rodney Mabry
Country / State: USA
Comments: I am from western North Carolina and like your pictures very much
Name: Nikki Fitzgerald
Country / State: (USA) GEORGIA
Comments: I am a Cherokee native and no one catches the sheer beauty like you!!!
Name: Dana
Country / State: (USA) TX
Comments: Beautiful pictures!!!
Name: R G Floyd
Country / State: (USA) Texas
Comments: My g-great grandfather, John Mingus) along with my great uncles, Abe Mingus and Lon Floyd built the Mingus Mill. You have a very nice web page.
Richard Replies: I have heard from several of the Mingus descendants. Thanks!
Name: Chris Starkey
Country / State: (USA) Louisiana
Comments: Love your website. Thanks.
Name: jeff and linda
Country / State: (USA) indiana
Comments: truly a breathtaking collection! if this is your home state, may we say you have done it a great service in your photo reps. we'll be visiting soon. thanks!
Name: Brenda Nagy
Country / State: (USA) Pennsylvania
Comments: Thank you so much for sharing your pictures. My husband and I are going to Gatlinburg in June. After looking at these photos,
I can't wait to get there.
Name: Sue Paulus
Country / State: (USA) Tennessee
Comments: Thank you for a delightful site. I've enjoyed browsing your photos.
Name: Connie
Country / State: (USA) LA
Comments: Thanks for the photos. I'm psyching myself up for a hike up Mt. LeConte with my dad and a group of people who hike it regularly. This will be my first hike up that great mountain. I'm very excited about it. Thanks for the pictures to enjoy in the meantime.
Name: Wanda McCannon
Country / State: (USA) Georgia
Comments: This is a beautiful site and I thank you so much for the beautiful phographs that keep the Great Smoky Mountains with me all year long.
Name: Linda Martin
Country / State: (USA) south carolina
Comments: breathtaking photo's! would love to see more spring and winter phot's. loved every minute of them. thanks!
Name: Suzanne
Country / State: Texas(USA)
Comments: You helped me on a project... I got to pick any place in the world and the pictures I saw, i knew i wanted to do a report about the Great Smokey National Park... Thanks to God and you!
Name: christy stone
Country / State: (USA) trenton ga
Comments: I downloaded all the screensavers and I'm giving them to all my friends
Name: Amanda J. Mathis
Country / State: (USA) Harrison, Arkansas
Comments: Your pictures are absolutly beautiful! I spent over an hour just getting lost in them - I am from the Ozarks and we have beautiful areas, but the Smokeys are just enchanting!! Thanks !
Name: Marlena Whiteaker
Country / State: US
Comments: Your pictures of the Smokies are breathtaking. We have never been to the Smokies but your pictures makes it look like we are right there. Thank You for such beautiful pictures.
Name: Miranda
Country / State: (USA) Illinois
Comments: These pictures are so beutiful!!I hope someday I might get to go visit the Great Smoky Mountains in person!That would be great!!Thankyou for supplying everyone with these magnificent pictures!!
Name: Jack Strange
Country / State: (USA) Colorado
Comments: I live in the city that is the gateway to the Rocky Mountains (Loveland, CO) but the Rockies are no match for the Smokies. I'm originally from the Ozarks. These pics of the Smokies are awesome. Thaks you so much for sharing
Name: Roger & Debbie
Country / State: USA *TENNESSEE
Comments: Richard, your website is beautiful! As you can tell by our email address, we are also smoky mountain enthusiast. Thanks so much for sharing the beauty of such a wonderful, one of a kind, place! Now I can look at the blue mist over the mountains every time I sit down at the computer screen......"Friends of The Great Smoky Mountains." Roger & Debbie
Name: Cathy Cordle
Country / State: (USA) Virginia
Comments: I love your site. We vacation in the Smokies each year and I hadn't been able to find any good pix of the Smokies.
Thanks for all your hard work on putting this site together for your vistors to have free pix of the Smokies.
Name: Linda
Country / State: (USA) NJ
Comments: I can't begin to thank you for such unselfish sharing. Now I can be in the Smokies anytime I choose. I don't need to break out the photo albums to ignite memories. - Linda
Richard Replies: Would you believe that some professional photographers write and lambaste me for not charging??? The Smokies belong to all of us and I'll keep doing this for free!!!
Name: jackie east
Country / State: us
Comments: i love the smokies
Name: Melissa A.
Country / State: (USA) Arkansas
Comments: My family and i visited the Smokies this summer and we all loved it. It's beautiful. My boyfriend and I are considering it for our honeymoon
Name: yasmin
Country / State: germany
Comments: I think this is a wonderful site because a lot of those photos look so relaxing and pretty
Name: Tom Moxley
Country / State: Indiana.USA
Comments: WE DRIVE THE 7 HOURS TO THE GREAT SMOKIES EVERY YEAR. SOMETIMES TWICE A YEAR. WE DO TRAILS AND SWIM IN THE RIVER NEAR TOWNSEND. THERE IS A ROCK THERE THAT YOU CAN JUMP OFF OF. AT THE VERY TOP I THINK IT'S 67 FOOT. ME AND MY YOUNGEST SON AND DAUGHTER JUMPED FROM THE ROCK,THEY WERE 12 YR OLD THEN.ALSO TROUT FISHED NOW I KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN TROUT FISHING.AN EXPERIANCE TO LAST FOREVER. THIS ALL HAPPENED IN THE SMOKYS.
Country / State: Tanzania
Name: Ian Whiting
Country / State: UK
Comments: A great selection of pictures. Thank you. It would have been nice to have a larger selection of the higher resolution images for wallpapers but if that is my only grumble I don't have much to complain about. The site has encouraged me to make a visit.
Name: Joni
Country / State: (USA) North Carolina
Comments: Amazing, fantastic and beautiful!
Name: Bill Ferrell
Comments: thanks for the great pictures. I'm going to learn how to download the screensavers.
Name: ed spradlin
Country / State: (USA) ohio
Comments: Been there and love it also have a brother that lives there he lives right in the middle of the spur on top of the Mt.
Name: Joyce Saye
Country / State: (USA) Georgia
Comments: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I can't believe my eyes!
Name: Martha Ligon
Country / State: (USA) Virginia
Comments: Discovered Jackson County in Sept 2000, have been back seven times. Decided to move there within the next three years. Bought some land in Sylva. My ancesters were Scotch-Irish and settled there in the 1700's. When I go there, I feel like I'm really going home..it's where my heart is. Do you have photos of Jackson County? I visit your photos at least once a week after a long day and just get more anxious to move everyday. It truly is the most beautiful area on earth. Thank you so much for making these available for those of us who dream...big!!
Name: Lucian
Country / State: Romania
Comments: Your site is a very interesting one and the pictures are beautiful. I enjoy going in the mountains and every place I see on the internet or somewhere else I study it a lot. I love to go in the summer at the mountains because it is not so hot as it is at the seaside. It was a real pleasure to watch these photos. I'll be back. Lucian
Richard Replies: Thanks for taking the time to sign the Guestbook!
Name: Sam Williamson
Country / State: (USA) Virginia
Comments: This site makes me homesick. I grew-up in Townsend and remember going to all of these places as a kid. My dad and I would fish these streams and walk all of these trails. It is a beautiful website.
Name: Linda Bartlett
Country / State: (USA) Alabama
Comments: I enjoyed the photo of fall in the mts
Name: Jerry Hadaway
Country / State: (USA) Rowlett, Texas
Comments: Please email me some info on the best mountain cabins to rent for a three day weekend ya'll would recommend.
This will be our first time to the Smoky's. Thanks
Richard Replies: Thanks for writing, but this site does not make recommendations for accommodations, but is intended to promote the Park as a visual place of interest.
Name: Tee Keng Hooi
Country / State: Malaysia
Comments: Admired the way you presented these photo and web-page design.
Well done.
Name: Larry A. Baugher
Country / State: (USA) NW Indiana
Comments: Thank You , The pictures you are sharing are beutiful. Thank You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: Mary
Country / State: (USA) Indiana
Comments: I absolutely love this site! The best I have visited yet. My husband and I first visited the Smoky's on our honeymoon and we have went back every year since. Gatlinburg and the Smoky's...Gotta love it! BEAUTIFUL...Keep up the great work and thank you for bringing me back to my favorite place in the world.
Name: sharon trout
Country / State: Ohio USA
Comments: My husband and I purchased 25 acres located outside of Jellico Tn. near Elk Valley in 2000. We are now busy forumulating plans to build high on our piece of land overlooking a sight of breathtaking beauty. Your site give us "wings" to build our retreat in the beautiful state of TN. Thanks so much for your photos, and the time and effort it took to put them all together!. Maybe I'll keep in touch with our progress! Sincerely, R. and S. Trout
Name: MARTY KLEINFELTER
Country / State: PA, USA
Name: Julie Crabb
Country / State: Florida,USA
Comments: We own land up in banner elk, your pictures look familier. We don't have the time to drive up there this month. Thank You for the trip up north with out leaving my office:)
Great Work
Name: Mary S. McCracken
Country / State: Virginia
Comments: I loved your photo of the president's visit to Townsend elementary school. Townsend is mentioned in my book, GRANDPAPPY UMP.
Richard Replies: Look for more about "Grandpappy Ump" soon on Smokyphotos.
Name: greg
Country / State: us Maryland
Comments: looking for winter wall paper of the blue ridge park way of n.c near ashevill n.c were i once lived i am looking for mountains screen of winter fall mostly winter of the parkway and the mountains on n. near ashevill if u can help i would greatly appreciate it thank for your free down of pic they are very nice.
Richard Replies: I don't have many great winter shots ...maybe I'll get lucky this year!
Name: swetankshahi
Country / State: india
Comments: This site is really a nice site for persons who like to see the beauty of nature. I am visiting this site first time .but i feel that i am late. i will visit the site regularly.
Name: Stephanie
Country / State: (USA) Ohio
Comments: Bittersweet- makes me homesick for the land of my people. I hope to get back there one day, but until then, I have these lovely photos... Wado (Thank you)!
Name: Carolyn Smith
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Comments: Your screensavers are wonderful. I've been using them for about a year or so. We visit the Smokies often--a favorite destination for us!
Name: Dianne Martinmaas
Country / State: (USA) South Dakota
Comments: WOW! What a beautiful collection of photos of the Smoky Mountain area! We have visited the area for many years and always long to return! Your pictures give a breath of vacation during the rest of the year. Many thanks!
Name: jen
Country / State: (USA) Alabama
Comments: This is the best site of Smoky Mountain pictures I have found!
Name: Amy Burleson
Country / State: (USA) North Carolina
Comments: I lived in Dillsboro for years as a child. I don't get back there very often. Looking at your photos was like going home! My children loved them.
Name: Pam Whitson
Country / State: (USA) Tennessee
Name: JimLouthan
Country / State: (USA) connecticut
Comments: Being from the mountains of southwest Virginia, your web site has a special meaning to me. Thank you for allowing me to visit, and all the work you've done. Now I know where i can go when I'm homesick.
Name: Debbie Lovelett
Country / State: (USA) Canada
Comments: Very beautifully put together. Photos are superb.........
Name: Joan Surguine
Country / State: Indiana, USA
Comments: Thank you for the beautiful photos! We hope to move to the Smoky Mountain area in a few years but, for now, I will enjoy the views vicariously through your pictures!
Name: PAM
Country / State: OHIO(USA)
Comments: I LOVE THE PICTURES.
Name: Brian Wilson
Country / State: (USA) Clarksville Tennessee
Comments: THANKS
Name: Robert Smiley
Country / State: (USA) Oregon
Comments: This makes me want to visit my roots even more. My father and his family are from Swain County. I will enjoy this site for hours and have passed it on to other North Carolina "Smiley's
Name: BILLY
Country / State: (USA) OHATCHEE AL
Comments: LOVE YOUR SITE I CAN GO THERE AFTER A LONG DAY AND GET TOTALLY RELAXED THANKS
Name: alb
Country / State: (USA) fl
Name: Chelsey
Country / State: u.s.a
Comments: i luv the pictures and it helps me with project
Name: Charles C. Martin
Country / State: Nooksack,Wa (USA)
Comments: I was born in Dillsboro, N.C.in 1930 and had never been to cades cove untill this past october, had only seen your pictures before that, now they have a whole new meaning for me. thank's so very much for the beautiful pictures. My ancestors were from Wears valley, sugarland then to hazel creek in north Carolina as well as cades cove.
Name: dee lee
Country / State: u.s.a
Comments: i love your pictures i live in a city, and just take a break and watch my screensaver pictures-it relaxes me some thanks dee
Name: Robert F. Richardson
Country / State: (USA) Zephyrhills, Florida
Comments: Goes without saying "Great shots" somehow I've got to purchase a room full of monitors for all these screensavers? Love them and want several copies.
Name: Kathy
Country / State: (USA) Georgia
Comments: Thanks for the BEAUTIFUL photos!
Name: Beth Ranger
Country / State: (USA) NC
Comments: I absolutely love this site!! I have always loved Cataloochee Valley, and have been obsessed with its history. It's nice to see pictures of it when I can't get there! Thanks
Name: Cheryl Wilkins
Country / State: Illinois, USA
Comments: Your site is beautiful! We moved to Illinois 5 years ago but left our hearts in East Tennessee. Thank you.
Name: Mary Alice Hurst
Country / State: USA
Comments: Beautiful Park, great pictures!
Name: dawq
Country / State: Russia
Comments: Hello
Name: Bub Taylor
Country / State: (USA) Pennsylvania
Comments: great site
Name: Bill Allen
Country / State: (USA) Indiana
Comments: Cool site.. Keep up the good work. My family and i love the smokies, we try and come every year.Hopefully someday I can talk my wife into living there(keep your fingers crossed}
Name: Harold L. Crawford
Country / State: USA, Kansas
Comments: Great pictures... Keep up the good work... :-)
Name: Juanitta Baldwin
Country / State: US
Comments: Thank you for granting me permission to use one of your photos of The Sinks in my new book. It is a unique shot. This wonderful website gives many people the opportunity to see the wonderful sites that would be impossible. Wishing you and yours happiness and joy in return for all you do.
Name: malcolm brown
Country / State: scotland
Comments: Lovely photos. Reminds me of our holiday in Virginia, August 2001.
Richard Replies: And I hope one day to visit your country and play golf the way it was meant to be played!
Name: Bob
Country / State: (USA) Washington State
Comments: Wonderfull site thanks very much
Name: Jammie Dennin
Country / State: (USA) WI
Comments: I can not believe that I haven't found this site before. It is truly wonderful. I visit the Smokies 1-3 times a year and have never seen such beautiful pictures. The fact that you make them available for free is even more wonderful. Thanks so much!
Name: Kevin
Country / State: NC, USA
Comments: Great site.
Name: Sherri Minker
Country / State: Florida United States
Comments: Gorgeous photos of the Smokies! My favoritest place in all the world!
I hope to some day live there! I also dream of spending a Christmas there with my family! Big dreams for us indeed, but ... dreaming is fun!
Thank you for your wonderful talent and for sharing it so freely! : )
You have made me smile a LOT tonight! Much enjoyment and awe at such a wondrous place!! : )
Name: ruthie
Country / State: (USA) georgia
Comments: i am overwhelmed by the beauty.
Name: Kenneth & Jane Curran
Country / State: (USA) Georgia
Comments: We love your site, It makes us want to go to the smokeys every time we visit it. Keep up the good work!!
Name: cathleen Rowe
Country / State: (USA) Arizona
Comments: I was raised in Knoxville, TN and I am very homesick, your pictures made me cry and smile at the same time. Thank you for sharing them with the world, they made me feel a little closer to home!
Name: sherry altman
Country / State: (USA) Florida
Comments: I have been enjoying the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains since I was a little girl and go every year to visit if I get the chance and I will be in Pigeon Forge on 12/7/01 Lord willing. I love the Smoky's and all the wonderful people I have met that live in the area.
Name: richard Good
Country / State: (USA) california
Comments: just bought 3 acres on the Little Pigeon River. Hope to see it soon.
Hello from California
Name: sheila roberts
Country / State: USA Georgia
Comments: I love your site. The Smoky Mts. are my favorite place in the world to be.
Name: musicandmore
Country / State: (USA) IA
Comments: A wonderful site!! Very Informative. Thank you for taking the time to put it on the web!!
Name: J. C Wilder
Country / State: (USA) Kentucky
Comments: The pictures are great!
Name: TABITHA HUSER AND HER MOM
Name: Janice J. Yeager
Country / State: (USA) Georgia
Comments: My tour of your web site was wonderful and brought back so many, many memories of our family's great trips over the years. The images are so very beautiful, it makes you ache to look at them. I have never understood how something so beautiful can hurt you to look. That probably doesn't make any sense, but it's the way I feel. The Smokies are the most wonderful place to me that God created. I feel at peace and at home when I am there.
Name: Charlette Wade Melton
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Comments: I love the pictures! They just made me want to be there even more.
Name: Chris &Christy Mallard
Country / State: USA Georgia
Comments: We love your site.
Name: Barbara Turner
Country / State: MO, USA
Comments: This is just beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.
Name: francisco alvardo
Country / State: (USA) connecticut
Comments: great photos
Name: David Purcell
Country / State: england
Name: Jacob
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Name: Doyle R Mallard
Country / State: (USA) Alabama
Comments: I love the screensaver pictures thanks! The GREAT SMOKEY Mountains is my favorite vacation place.
Name: Caitlin S.
Country / State: (USA) California
Comments: What a great site...I mostly liked the pictures. They are REALLY cool. Thanks for sharing.
Caitlin
Name: Marissa
Country / State: (USA) CA
Comments: I like all the pictures that you have here. There are alot of them!
Name: M.S.C.
Country / State: (USA) ILLINOIS
Comments: My Family and I love the Smokies. These photos are just great. We come down there at least 2 to 3 times a year. Being from Chicago, in the winter it is so nice to view beautiful Country thru your photos. Thank you
Name: VELVET CHILDERS
Country / State: (USA) KENTUCKY
Comments: THE BEST SMOKEY MT. SITE I'VE FOUND!!!!
Name: PEGGY MALCOME
Country / State: U.S.A. Illinios
Comments: i am using your screen savers at work for sanity at times to remember the beauty of the smokey's from our vacations there i love it there and think of how the sights and the visions of the mountains was food for my soul.
Name: Janet Metcalfe
Country / State: (USA) South Carolina
Comments: Love the site, I love to use these photos in my presentations,,,you do awesome work...Thanks for making my job so easy
Name: Jason Grunden
Country / State: usa
Comments: Great site! I've been to Tennessee for the forth time last week and seriously considering relocating to the Townsend area. Keep up the good work with your site. Jason from Ohio
Name: April
Country / State: Ohio, U.S.A.
Comments: great site!
Name: Debbie Conover
Country / State: Ohio, USA
Comments: Your pictures are wonderful and bring back so many great memories. Thank you for sharing your photos.
Name: Brenda
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Comments: My most favorite place ever, the Smokys. You bring it back to mind through each picture. Thanks, they're beautiful.
Name: Janice Cassell
Country / State: (USA) Texas
Comments: The Great Smoky Mountains... God's country. Heaven can't be any more glorious than this.
Name: Eddie Dewhurst
Country / State: U.K
Comments: Your photos of the park in Autumn are superb
Regards Eddie Dewhurst Preston England
Name: shana
Country / State: united states
Comments: i think it is great that you offer free items...the whole net should work like that.. thank you
Name: KAREN S. MAGEE
Country / State: (USA) KY
Comments: I Love your site! The pictures are breathtaking and your love of the mountains shines through each one. I come back to this site often to ease my homesickness for this beautiful area. I appreciate the hard work and heart that you put into all of this. Thank you so much!!!!
Name: Jennifer Elliott
Country / State: (USA) GA
Comments: This is the most beautiful place on earth and I am so thankful for those that placed these photo's for free. Thank you for sharing in the beauty!
Name: Marilyn Anderson
Country / State: (USA) Florida
Comments: Your photos of the smokies are absolutely breathtaking. It was a hard decision to choose which ones to download (#6 is my choice for now). Please continue to do what you're doing. I love the Smokey and Blue Ridge Mountains. My husband's oldest sister and her husband plus my husband and myself make a trip to the mountains each year (North Georgia, North Carolina and/or Tennessee). Thank you so much for providing these pictures to any and every one.
Name: Brian Idol
Country / State: (USA) Charleston, South Carolina
Comments: Thank you for the wonderful pictures. I am in the military, so needless to say I travel a lot. I am currently stationed in Charleston where, I'm sorry to say, there isn't even the slightest hill. I have the ocean, but it's not the mountains. Thank you for bringing home to me. Keep the pics coming.
Name: Carla S. Hill
Country / State: (USA) Tennesse
Comments: i really enjoyed the beauty of this site....i am within driving distance of the beautiful smokies...however, these photos and locations are absolutely gorgeous. thank you so much for taking time to share the beauty of God's creation on this website...
Name: Debbie Russell
Country / State: (USA) Mississippi
Comments: I love your website. Keep up the great work.
Name: Charlie Goodwin
Country / State: (USA) Mass.
Comments: This is a great site!!!!!!! Thank you for building it!!!!!
Name: STEFANI
Country / State: (USA) ALABAMA
Comments: BEING IN THE MOUNTAINS IS MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD. AND SINCE I HAVE LIVED HERE YOU DON'T SEE MOUNTAINS, SO UNTIL I GET TO GO BACK AND LIVE IN MY FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD, Y'ALLS PICTURES ARE THE CLOSEST I WILL GET.. THANKS FOR HAVING THESE AVAILABLE... SINCERLY, MOUNTAIN GIRL AT HEART, STEFANI P.S.
THANKS...!!!
Name: kellye champion
Country / State: (USA) alabama
Comments: my husband and i just return today from the smokies. we spent 3 days just riding around looking at the mountians and i must say it was wonderful. My husband had never been and i have been coming to the smokies since i was a child. It was the most relaxing vacation we have ever taken and we will definately return several times a year, hopefully in each of the 4 seasons. I hope that everyone has at least one opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the smokies at least once in their life.
Name: Elinor Melton Gorgas
Country / State: (USA) Florida
Comments: Thank you for this beautiful web site. My mother Ada