Wetlands And Sky

Wetlands And Sky
Clearing clouds reflected in the surface of a San Joaquin Valley wetland pond

Wetlands And Sky. San Joaquin Valley, California. January 1, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Clearing clouds reflected in the surface of a San Joaquin Valley wetland pond

On the first day of winter, as this year approaches its conclusion and a new year approaches, it always seems like time to look back over the past year. With that in mind, this photograph looks back to the very first day of 2017, when we met the dawn of the new year out in the San Joaquin Valley, accompanied by a few good friends and tens of thousands of migratory birds.

This photograph comes from a bit later in the day, when the edge of low clouds was close to our position and the sky and clouds were reflected in the wetland ponds. There were few birds in this scene when I made the photograph, which is likely why I put down my “bird camera” and its big lens and picked up a smaller camera with a wide-angle lens to photograph this larger view.


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” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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