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Detail of colorful tree bark patterns.
This photograph comes from a recent morning photography foray with Patricia Emerson Mitchell during which we visited one of her favorite SF Bay Areas locations for photographing flowers. (That’s her thing!) The location is an old estate on the San Francisco Peninsula that features extensive gardens that are open to the public these days. She knows that place well enough that she plans her visits around what is blooming, and this week it was daffodils.
While I’m not mainly a photographer of flowers — or, for that matter, small things in general – I do give it a try sometimes. I brought along a macro lens and photographed small, floral things. I’ll share more of those photographs soon. But I’m also easily distracted by other things including weathered wooden structures, ivy, and the marvelously patterned bark on a row of trees. There were more than a dozen trees with variations on this kind of pattern, so I spent some time moving from tree to tree and focusing my macro lens on the remarkable colors and patterns.
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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