Detail, Desert Mountains. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Detail of a rugged desert mountain landscape in late-day light.
On this evening I was photographing out in the valley among the sand dunes, focusing largely on that landscape and it small and large features. As late afternoon transitioned to sunset and then the sky-lit post sunset light my focus remained primarily on the dunes. But after the light left the lowlands of the valley it remained briefly on the surrounding peaks.
The terrain in this photograph of a portion of the mountains is remarkably rugged and barren. What plantlike grows on these faces and in the gullies is both sparse and almost impossible to see from a distance, and the landscape appears to consist almost wholly of fractured and stratified rock.
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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