By Jesse Wood
Just in time for the fall equinox, RaysWeather.com’s popular Blue Ridge Parkway Calendar for 2017 is hitting stores and shipping to customers this week.
The 2017 Blue Ridge Parkway Calendar features 50 photos depicting the 469-mile highway, an iconic stretch of road that begins near Waynesboro, Virginia and ends near Cherokee, N.C. As a bonus, the calendar features pages for November and December, which will be here in no time.
Each year, RaysWeather.com holds a photo contest to decide which images to choose. This past spring, more than 14,000 people cast votes on the 645 entries to be considered in the 2017 calendar.
Kathryn Greven was awarded the cover and the grand prize for her shot of the Milky Way. Ray Russell of of RaysWeather.com said that the long exposure images like the cover shot and an aerial photo taken in the fall by Jordan Nelson are examples of what’s unique in this year’s calendar over the past.
“We try not to do the stock images you see from the same places all the time on the Blue Ridge Parkway,” Russell said, adding that if they select an image depicting a standard scene they’ll look for refreshing take.
A description of the calendar states that its “stunning photography from often missed ‘nooks and crannies’ of the Parkway, [offer] unique perspectives of your favorite vistas, but also many of your favorite classic scenes.”
The calendar also includes a map of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a historic chronology of the Blue Ridge Parkway and information about the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, a nonprofit that works on behalf of the national treasure.
Order your calendar by clicking here. To see a list of stores, check back to the previous embedded link.
Below are the images representing the 12 months and additional November and December month.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
November
December
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