Monthly Archives: February 2008

Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Pacific Surf, Winter

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Pacific Surf, Winter
Pacific Surf, Winter. South of San Francisco, California. January 12, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

A rugged section of the California Pacific coast south of San Francisco on a winter day with huge surf. Shooting this one was fun – I stopped amost randomly near this spot and carried my gear across a mostly untracked meadow to the top of these cliffs.

keywords: pacific, ocean, shoreline, surf, winter, california, usa, coast, highway, rocks, fog, mist, black and white, birds, gulls, froth, cliffs, stock, landscape, seascape

Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Wave, Fog, and Reflected Light – Pacific Ocean

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Wave, Fog, and Reflected Light - Pacific Ocean
Wave, Fog, and Reflected Light – Pacific Ocean. South of San Francisco, California. January 12, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I photographed this wave and the ocean receding into sunlit coastal clouds and fog along the Pacific coast between Santa Cruz and San Francisco – on the day of the Mavericks Surf competition a bit further up the coast.

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Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Urban/Street

The Photographer and Eye, Sculpture Park

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The Photographer and Eye, Sculpture Park
The Photographer and Eye, Sculpture Park. Seattle, Washington. January 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Sometimes one simply cannot resist the opportunity for a really awful pun… (It may not be clear on your monitor, but the object at the lower right corner is a large sculpture of an eye.)

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History, Photographers

Dorothea Lange at Shorpy

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If you aren’t already following it, take a look at Shorpy: The 100 Year Old Photography Blog, where really wonderful old photographs appear daily, often with some descriptive text or comments. Yesterday’s Dorothea Lange photograph (“A New Beginning: 1939“) is absolutely wonderful. (You can view it full size.) At first glance it might seem like an old photo of some guy, but there is so much to like in this photograph. The face of this “Ex-Nebraska farmer” is an absolute wonder – simultaneously inscrutable and open. And the image is a lesson in reducing the content down to only that which is absolutely critical to the subject – nothing more and nothing less.

(For something a bit more scary, take a look at this photo while you are there…)