Three Trees, Wetlands Sunset. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Three trees in dusk light on a cloudy winter evening, reflected in the surface of a wetlands pond.
California’s Great Central Valley can be a place of surprises. It often seems to be mainly agricultural, presenting a rather flat landscape broken up by farm houses and roads. At times the air is hazy, and it isn’t usually a place of grand vistas. And then it surprises you. On a clear day you may look east toward the Sierra Nevada, snow covered in winter. Far to the north, days of exceptional clarity reveal the massif of Mount Shasta looming over the upper end of the Valley. There are subtler landscapes, too — river banks, oak trees, wetlands, and more.
As this day came to an end a minor weather front laid a line of clouds across the western sky. As the clouds turned red at sunset, the reflection produced a huge arch across the horizon above the hills along the western border of the valley, and the scene was mirrored in a shallow wetlands pond.
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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