Eastern Sierra Autumn Sunset. Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. September 30, 2006. © Copyright 2006 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

An autumn sunset high in a canyon of the eastern Sierra Nevada

Let’s end 2014 with a sunset — one of the wildest sunsets I’ve seen in the eastern Sierra. This is another of the “rediscovered” older photographs that I turned up during my recent review of a decade or more of older raw files that were left behind in the past. I was going through them while working on a particular project, but as I did so I couldn’t help but get distracted and follow paths through photographs that are largely unrelated to that project.

This photograph was made at the very end of the day, as what had been somewhat gray clouds were lit from beneath by evening sun breaking under the clouds to the west, and brilliantly (gaudily?) coloring the sky out over Owens Valley and above the White Mountains. Frankly, I think that at the time I wasn’t quite sure how to handle this range of colors in post, so I put the file aside and mostly forgot about it until this week’s rediscovery rekindled the memory of that evening.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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