Winter Geese, Wetlands. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Winter geese and the winter landscape of California’s Central Valley.
Perhaps this is a wildlife photograph. Perhaps it is a landscape. Perhaps both? Maybe a ‘birdscape?” When I photograph subjects like this I don’t focus on one photographic type, but instead I tend to move across these boundaries — at one extreme perhaps making photographs of individual birds and at the other occasionally photographing subjects in these locations that don’t include wildlife at all. (From a technical perspective, this influences the equipment I use, which might not always look like the typical wildlife photography gear. But I digress…)
My home territory for these photographs during the migratory bird season between roughly November and about now is California’s Great Central Valley, a landscape extending from the Interstate 5’s ascent at the south end to the mountains culminating in Mount Shasta in the north. Much of this country is agricultural, flat, and the sort of area you might tend to pass through rather than consider as a destination. Yet you don’t really know California if you don’t spend time out here.
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, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
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