Morning, San Francisco Bay and East Bay Shipping Yard. San Francisco, California. July 17, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: I took the train to San Francisco very early on this warm and hazy July morning and walked along the waterfront toward the Ferry Building.
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Tioga Lake and Mammoth Peak. Tioga Pass, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: This photo was taken on a beautiful clear early summer day at Tioga Lake, one of those first days of the new season when the sun is warm, the air is still, and mountain visitors are beginning to return to the mountains. Just before Tioga Pass on the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park there was still plenty of snow around, from the patches in the meadow just below the pass to the large snowfields on Mammoth Peak and Kuna ridge in the distance.
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Paul Butzi (Musings on Photography) describes one sort of art buyer:
But there’s one category I know about that no one else seems to think of: people who buy artworks because they want to be artists/photographers/painters by proxy. They want to be the sort of person who’s out on the beach at dawn, seeing how wonderful God’s creation looks as the sea breeze starts to stir and the fog starts to burn off over the ocean but lingers in the trees. The problem is that they’ve discovered that at dawn, on the beach, when the sea breeze starts to stir and the fog starts to burn off, it’s often cold and wet and dark and fairly nasty- any sensible person would be in bed, fast asleep, and not out in the cold and wet and dark witnessing God’s creation.
While not at all sensible, I think I like to be the sort who is on the beach at dawn… ;-)
By the way, visit the original article by clicking the title link above, and enjoy the beautiful monochrome photo that Paul Butzi has included with his post.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
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Twilight Clouds, Unicorn Peak. Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: Sometimes the light only gets interesting after the sun sets. On this early summer evening I was at the west end of Tuolumne Meadows taking photographs across the meadow to the northeast as the sun set over a period of an hour or more. Just after the list light left the peaks of Mts. Gibb and Dana, it struck this very high cloud formation to the southeast. This photograph also shows a condition that many August visitors to Tuolumne Meadows may not be aware of; during the early summer season there can be so much water in the meadow that one is tempted to refer to the area as Tuolumne Lake.
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