I photographed Chicago’s famous Wrigley Building while we were out for a walk last November. We were in the city for most of a week, originally to meet up with others, but in the end to explore, eat at interesting places, and attend a couple of concerts. On this day we had walked to the opera house to make sure we’d know where we were going when we attended an upcoming performance, We were looping back from there along the Chicago River when I made the photograph.

When the light is right, I’m bit of a sucker for photographing big buildings like The Wrigley. They feel like they come from a different and perhaps more innocent era, and in Chicago they evoke the “City of Broad Shoulders” heritage of the place.

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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” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him. Blog | Bluesky | Mastodon | Substack Notes | Flickr | Email

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For various reasons it took me a long time to commit to a set of favorite photographs of 2024. I chose the title of this list carefully, as I do every year. Note that it is not “Best Photgraphs” or “My 15 Favorite Photographs” or similar — it is just Favorite Photographs of 2024. Why is that? These are, indeed, among my “favorite” photograph from 2024, but I can’t say for sure that they are the favorite, much less that they are my “best” of the year.

Making this annual list is both a pleasure and a big challenge. The pleasure comes from reviewing hundreds of photographs and, in the process, both rediscovering some of them and reliving the experiences behind making them. The challenge? There are several. The first is that it is very hard to winnow them down to a manageable number. I probably stared with nearly 100, made a quick cut to half that many, labored to make the next 50% cut, and finally got the number down to the 15 you see here. (My target was a dozen, but now that I’m eight months late… it was time to just put them out there!)

The photographs include several themes in my photography: The Sierra Nevada, travel and street photography, the desert and ocean, wildlife and nature. To qualify as a “2024 Favorite” the photographs had to have first been publicly shared in that year. First up is a display of the whole set, followed further down that page with larger individual files with a bit more information. (Clicking on the larger photographs opens their original posts in new tabs.)

View larger versions of the individual photographs below. Click on any of them to visit the original posts, which include additional background information.

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Winter is my favorite time to explore Death Valley. Occasional weather fronts pass by, producing interesting clouds and some precipitation. The temperatures are far more comfortable, and it can even be cold in the mountains. I usually time my visits for December or January, though I’ll visit as late as the beginning of April, by which time it is noticeably heating up. This year I went at the end of February, and I was pleased to run into fewer people than usual.

I drove out to this remote canyon in the middle of the day, then loaded up the pack and walked a few miles into it. I think I saw only two other small groups the entire time. The route passed through some wonderful canyon narrows, and I paused to photograph them going in and then again coming back out. I paused here because the canyon itself was interesting but also because of the green desert holly plant growing in the gravel of the wash.

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