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St. Madeline Church, Trona
St. Madeline Church, Trona
The stark architecture of St. Madeline Sophie Barat Catholic Church, Trona, California.
St. Madeline Church, Trona. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The stark architecture of St. Madeline Sophie Barat Catholic Church, Trona, California.
I have a bit of history with the California town of Trona, but it has mostly been superficial. I may need to consider changing that. The…
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Dunes, Light And Shadow
Dunes, Light And Shadow
A curving interaction between light and shadow on Death Valley sand dunes
Dunes, Light And Shadow. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A curving interaction between light and shadow on Death Valley sand dunes
The visual patterns of desert sand dunes can quickly become a sort of photographers’ playground. While we often may go out looking for individual subjects and composition…
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Xing School
Street crossing marking on the roadway in Chinatown, Manhattan
Xing School. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Street crossing marking on the roadway in Chinatown, Manhattan
I’m going to divert briefly from the Death Vally photographs today and return to a much different place, the urban world of New York City. I made this photograph about four years ago and only rediscovered…
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Creosote, Sea Of Dunes
Creosote, Sea Of Dunes
A sea of sand dunes extends to distant desert mountains behind a cluster of creosote bushes
Creosote, Sea Of Dunes. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A sea of sand dunes extends to distant desert mountains behind a cluster of creosote bushes
This photograph comes from those moments just before sunrise on the dunes, when there is not yet any direct, intense light. Instead the…
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Kit Fox Hills
Evening light on the Kit Fox HIlls, Death Valley
Kit Fox Hills. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Evening light on the Kit Fox HIlls, Death Valley
This photograph was a bit of a lucky catch. I had gone to an elevated location where I had a more commanding view of a wide section of Death Valley, but late-afternoon clouds had drifted in above the Cottonwood Mountains to the…
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Desert Mountains
Desert mountains rise above Death Valley in evening light
Desert Mountains. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Desert mountains rise above Death Valley in evening light
This view takes me back to something I believe I understood the very first time I saw Death Valley. It was close to twenty years ago, and I had gone there as an adult with a group of middle school and high…
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Dunes, First Light
First light on Death Valley sand dunes
Dunes, First Light. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
First light on Death Valley sand dunes
No matter how many times I experience it — and I’ve experienced it a lot! — the instant when the first sunlight suffuses the landscape is always magical. Invariably, it sneaks up on me, even though I plan to be there for it and have probably…
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Dunes, Mountains, Haze
Afternoon winds and blowing sand soften the contours of sand dunes and desert mountains
Dunes, Mountains, Haze. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Afternoon winds and blowing sand soften the contours of sand dunes and desert mountains
For us, the drive to Death Valley from the San Francisco Bay Area is always a long one, even when we break it into sections as we did on this…
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Tufa Hill, Twilight
Twilight and evening clouds above a tufa hill in the Death Valley landscape
Tufa Hill, Twilight. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Twilight and evening clouds above a tufa hill in the Death Valley landscape
A day or two earlier than this I had been out in a location not far from this spot at the end of the day, hoping to photograph end-of-day color. Just before sunset the sky…
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Avocet, Sunset Reflection
An avocet feeds in shallow water reflecting sunset light
Avocet, Sunset Reflection. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
An avocet feeds in shallow water reflecting sunset light
I remember, many years ago, taking a college class that included a section on birds in the San Francisco Bay Area. The birding gene didn’t initially take for me — that came many years later — but I…
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Metal Building, Distressed Paint
Metal Building, Distressed Paint
Metal industrial building with marks from patched paint
Metal Building, Distressed Paint. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Metal industrial building with marks from patched paint
This is another of the pre-dark twilight photographs I made on my recent visit to the Mare Island Naval Ship Yard to do night photography. A group of us assembled bit by bit, some starting close to…
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Snow Begins
Snow begins to fall on trees alongside a Yosemite Valley meadow
Snow Begins. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Snow begins to fall on trees alongside a Yosemite Valley meadow
Yes, another photograph of Yosemite Valley on a winter day. I made this photograph on an afternoon when snow flurries were beginning to affect the Valley. It was an extremely cold day, and I was resuming…
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Alley, Arrow, Windows
A directional arrow in a narrow alley outside of a windowed industrial building
Alley, Arrow, Windows. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A directional arrow in a narrow alley outside of a windowed industrial building
Night photography is, perhaps ironically, truly all about the light. There isn’t that much of it in most cases, so we resort to very long exposures (or perhaps…
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Winter Trees
Bare winter trees alongside the Merced River
Winter Trees. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Bare winter trees alongside the Merced River
There is a, obviously, a lot to see in Yosemite Valley and the rest of this famous national park. Many of the iconic sights are well-known and there is little question why. (As someone said, “They are icons for a reason!”) We all love those…
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Patterns In Granite
Patterns in a section of Yosemite Valley granite
Patterns In Granite. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Patterns in a section of Yosemite Valley granite
Of all the things that characterize and define Yosemite, rock may be the most important. The Valley itself is lined with huge granite* forms in the shapes of domes and cliffs and more, carved by water, glaciers, and slow…
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Red-Wing Blackbirds, Twilight
A huge flock of red-wing blackbirds wheels in the twilight sky
Red-Wing Blackbirds, Twilight. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A huge flock of red-wing blackbirds wheels in the twilight sky
First, a confession. Although I’m almost positive that the little black spots in this photograph are individual red-wing blackbirds, I was not actually close enough to verify. I had seen…
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Building 259
Building 239, Mare Island Naval Ship Yard
Building 259. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Building 239, Mare Island Naval Ship Yard
In mid-March I returned to the old Mare Island Naval Ship Yard to do night photography with some of my nocturnal friends, a group of photographers with connections through Bay Area night photography guru Tim Baskerville who has been…
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