At this web site you’ll generally be looking at photos I shot a few weeks or even a month ago. When I return from a shoot I spend a few days starting to get the image in order, selecting my favorites, and doing some initial work on them – and then I post them into the queue at this blog. The current images mostly come from a couple of weekends in Yosemite Valley near the beginning of November. I was in Southern California last weekend, and I have a few images from the Getty Center that will be posted here before too long.
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Reminder: Pigeon Point Lighthouse Tonight
I earlier linked to Andy Fraser’s post about the Pigeon Point lighthouse event at which the original fresnel lens beam is lighted. This is a reminder that the event is tonight. (I’ll be there.)
Inge Fernau’s Autumn Colors
It looks like Inge Fernau has begun her (annual?) posting of fall color photographs from the Sierra Nevada. As I understand it – you can read more at her site – every fall she heads to the eastern Sierra and spends far more time than I do pursuing the annual autumn foliage and other seasonal subjects.
Base of Vernal Fall, Autumn
Base of Vernal Fall, Autumn. Yosemite National Park, California. October 26, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
This photograph was made (as you may have noticed from the date) in autumn of a pretty dry year. For this reason I was able to approach the base of the falls much more closely than would be possible in other years or during the waterfall season. (Even if you did manage to get this close in, say, June you wouldn’t see anything but a solid wall of mist.)