Wetlands Evening. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Dissipating evening clouds reflected in the surface of a Central Valley wetlands pond.
This is the my favorite season in California — from October (with Sierra aspens) though the onset of winter rains (and mountain snow) in November or so, and on to the very beginning of spring. I’m sure that folks in other parts of country occasionally resent us saying it, but sometimes the hot and sunny days of late spring through summer are just… boring. it is rare to see clouds, there is virtually no rain — and those are precisely the conditions I love.
I made this photograph on a recent trip in the Central Valley, mostly looking for wildlife, but also for agricultural subjects, a certain sort of autumn color that is found here into December, and the beautiful skies that appear before and after the passage of weather systems. I had arrived at this place before dawn, photographed through the morning in fog, and returned again after a midday lunch break. Here it less than a half hour before sunset, and things were quieting down and the light was softening, and big, billowy clouds drifted overhead, reflected in the waters of wetland ponds.
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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