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Title: Dawn at Mountain Farm Museum
Location: Mountain Farm Museum, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina
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On an October morning at the Mountain Farm Museum, the first light of sunrise casts a narrow band of illumination across the distant mountain ridges while the historic structures of the farm remain cloaked in the lingering chill of predawn shadow. Captured at the moment when the rising sun begins to pierce the eastern horizon, this image depicts the brief transition between night and day within the Smokies. The contrast between the softly illuminated peaks and the still-dark farmstead reveals the dynamic relationship between the changing light of early autumn and the enduring presence of preserved mountain architecture.