Winter Sunset. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Sunset in California’s Central Valley, on a winter evening with a weather front approaching.
I often ponder the California landscapes that are not so widely known, at least not among visitors to the state who are (justifiably) attracted to better know subjects: San Francisco, LA, well-known spots in the Sierra, the Big Sur coast, perhaps desert locations such as Death Valley. I guess that we Californians can be grateful that we get to keep a few of these less obvious spots for ourselves!
The Great Central Valley, stretching from just below Mount Shasta in the north to the mountains ringing the northern edge of the LA Basin in the south, and bounded on the east by the Sierra and the west by interior ranges is such a place. It is huge — hundreds of miles long and many tens of miles across — but even though it is one of the most rapidly growing regions of the state, many people mostly know it from driving through, not from pausing. This photograph comes from a winter evening when an incoming Pacific weather front was just starting to cloud up the western sky.
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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