Photo Credits

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  Drone view over downtown Blairsville with the red-brick 1899 Old Union County Courthouse and its white clock tower on the green courthouse square, ringed by roads, shops and parking, with forested mountains behind.

  Photograph File:Aerial of downtown Blairsville, Georgia, and the Old Union County Courthouse 01 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Vertical drone view of the Old Union County Courthouse on its round green square, with surrounding downtown roofs, trees and a wooded ridge on the horizon.

  Photograph File:Aerial of downtown Blairsville, Georgia, and the Old Union County Courthouse 02 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Drone view looking straight up the main street through downtown Blairsville, with the courthouse on its circular square in the center and green mountains beyond.

  Photograph File:Aerial of downtown Blairsville, Georgia, and the Old Union County Courthouse 03 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Front facade of the red-brick Old Union County Courthouse with arched windows and a white bell tower, framed by two black lamp posts and American flags under a bright cloudy sky (heavily color-processed).

  Photograph File:The Old Union County Courthouse in Blairsville, Georgia 02 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Vertical view of the red-brick Old Union County Courthouse rising to its white clock and bell tower against a vivid blue sky with puffy clouds (heavily color-processed).

  Photograph File:The Old Union County Courthouse in Blairsville, Georgia 01 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Wide panoramic interior of the restored courtroom, with wooden pews, a railed judge's area, pressed-tin ceiling, ceiling fans, tall windows and a Georgia flag.

  Photograph File:The Old Union County Courthouse in Blairsville, Georgia 03 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Side view of the red-brick courthouse and white cupola behind shrubs and trees on the lawn, with a small roofed kiosk in front, under a clear blue sky.

  Photograph File:Union County Georgia Courthouse by John Trainor, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  The stone 1934 Old Union County Jail with its columned porch in the foreground and the courthouse's white tower and red brick visible down the street under dramatic clouds.

  Photograph File:Old Union County, GA Jail, 1934, Old Courthouse in Background by Gwringle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Wide panorama from the summit observation deck, with the stone lookout tower and flag at left, a coin-operated viewer, and green ridges under low clouds.

  Photograph File:Brasstown Bald (19279972848) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Aerial view of Brasstown Bald's summit and visitor center on a ridge dusted white with rime ice, with layered ridges, valleys and a lake in the hazy distance.

  Photograph File:Brasstown Bald Visitor Center (14733501222) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  From near the summit, rust-and-gold fall forest slopes down into a sea of white clouds, with blue mountain ridges on the far horizon.

  Photograph File:View from Brasstown Bald (6241053591) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  A fall-colored ridge with the summit parking lot below, rising above a blanket of clouds that fills the valleys under a blue sky.

  Photograph File:Brasstown Bald Visitor Center (6241570630) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Early-morning view north over orange and green fall-colored peaks, with fog filling the valley and distant blue ridges above it.

  Photograph File:Early morning views from Brasstown Bald looking north (8079779459) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Two visitors, an adult and a boy, look out with binoculars and a coin viewer from the shingled wall of the summit observation deck over hazy blue mountains.

  Photograph File:Brasstown Bald Visitor Center (14547150058) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Drone view of Lake Nottely's turquoise water with wooded islands and red-clay shorelines, under a pastel sky with scattered clouds and mountains on the horizon.

  Photograph File:Lake Nottely (or Nottely Reservoir) in Union County, Georgia, near Blairsville 01 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Drone view of Lake Nottely at sunset, with pink streaked clouds reflected in calm water dotted with small wooded islands and distant mountains.

  Photograph File:Lake Nottely (or Nottely Reservoir) in Union County, Georgia, near Blairsville 02 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Wide aerial panorama of Lake Nottely's teal water, wooded islands and shoreline, with the dam at far left and blue sky with white clouds.

  Photograph File:Lake Nottely (or Nottely Reservoir) in Union County, Georgia, near Blairsville 03 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Aerial view of the curving rock-faced Nottely Dam with a road across its crest, Lake Nottely stretching beyond, and green forest in the foreground.

  Photograph File:Nottely Dam and Lake Nottely reservoir in Union County, Georgia, near Blairsville 01 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Wide aerial panorama of Nottely Dam curving across the lake under a double rainbow, surrounded by green forested hills.

  Photograph File:Nottely Dam and Lake Nottely reservoir in Union County, Georgia, near Blairsville 05 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  From the rocky shore, the concrete intake tower labeled NOTTELY stands in the lake on a footbridge while a motorboat passes, with wooded mountains behind.

  Photograph File:Nottely Lake, July 2023 1 by Thomson200, released under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  The new Vogel State Park visitor center with a wooden 'Vogel State Park Visitor Center' sign, stone chimney, flagpole and walkway under a blue sky.

  Photograph File:Vogel State Park’s new visitors center in north Georgia 02 by Harrison Keely, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized, with a light colour grade.

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  Blood Mountain's rounded peak covered in fall color, seen over autumn trees under a blue sky with willow leaves at top.

  Photograph File:Blood Mountain from Vogel State Park, Oct 2016 1 by Thomson200, released under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Black-and-white 1939 photo of the stone public lodge at Neel Gap, with 1930s cars parked along a curving drive and a child sitting on a stone post.

  Photograph File:Public lodge in Neel’s Gap, Vogel State Park – NARA – 280709 by Tennessee Valley Authority, in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  The low stone Walasi-Yi Interpretive Center with green doors and trim, small evergreens and rocks in front, and fallen leaves and light snow on the ground.

  Photograph File:Walasi-Yi Interpretive Center by Thomsonmg2000, released under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  The stone Walasi-Yi building decorated for fall with pumpkins, potted mums and a scarecrow hiker wearing a backpack.

  Photograph File:Walasi-Yi Inn, Neels Gap, GA Fall by Gwringle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Long-exposure view of Helton Creek Falls sliding in a smooth white sheet over a rock face into a pool, surrounded by green forest and rhododendron.

  Photograph File:Helton Creek Falls (17380779330) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Tall straight hardwood trunks rising from a lush green understory in sunlit summer forest.

  Photograph File:Sosebee Cove (17543000916) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Lake Winfield Scott reflecting a shoreline of orange, gold and green fall trees and evergreens under a clear blue sky.

  Photograph File:Lake Winfield Scott (10857854675) by ChattOconeeNF, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Two-lane GA 180 winding through Wolf Pen Gap beneath trees in gold and red fall color, with leaves on the roadside.

  Photograph File:GA SR 180 in Wolf Pen Gap, Union County Oct 2016 by Thomson200, released under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Layered blue-green mountain ridges receding into haze, with forested Locust Log Ridge in the foreground and Brasstown Bald on the far horizon.

  Photograph File:Locust Log Ridge (Union County) and Brasstown Bald, Oct 2018 by Thomson200, released under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  A white 1885 farmhouse with a blue metal roof, dormers, a tall stone chimney and a picket fence, with colorful rugs on the porch rail.

  Photograph File:Raburn-Casteel House, Union County, GA, 1885 by Gwringle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

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  Old black-and-white photo of a shingle-roofed sorghum boiling shed with steam rising, a horse-powered cane mill in the background and the handwritten caption 'Sorghum Mill'.

  Photograph File:Sorghum Mill LCCN2004680345 by Unknown photographer (print signed ‘Barnhill’); Library of Congress Prints & Photographs, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

The film on the home page

The film at the top of the home page is cut from six photographs credited on this page, slowly panned and cross-faded. Nothing in it is generated or altered beyond cropping, a light colour grade and the motion.

1. The 1899 Old Union County Courthouse on the square in downtown Blairsville — Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0
2. Looking up the street to the courthouse square — Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0
3. Lake Nottely at sunset, the TVA reservoir north of town — Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0
4. GA 180 winding through Wolf Pen Gap in fall color, south of town — Thomson200, CC0
5. Helton Creek Falls in the Chattahoochee National Forest — ChattOconeeNF, CC BY 2.0
6. Fall color above the clouds near the summit of Brasstown Bald, Georgia's highest point — ChattOconeeNF, CC BY 2.0

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