I was fortunate enough to get to the eastern Sierra two weekends in a row earlier this month, so expect the string of aspen photos to continue a bit longer.
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.
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.
Diablo Valley College is using a photo of mine taken on a 2004 Sierra Nevada pack trip that passed through the Rae Lakes area. The scene shows a peak called Painted Lady with a bit of one of the Rae Lakes in the foreground.
My backpacking buddy Owen Lee is a member of the music faculty at DVC and the conductor of one of the groups featured at this performance – and he was on the trip with me when the photo was taken.
As a photographer, one can have mixed feelings about the use of a photo as background behind text on a poster, but I think it works in this case.
Records have continued to be broken steadily. But until last year, when a contemporary photograph by Richard Prince sold for $1.2 million at Christie’s, no single print had ever broken the six-figure barrier at auction. So when Sotheby’s announced this week that “The Pond ˜ Moonlight,” a platinum print by Edward Steichen owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had sold for almost $3 million to an anonymous buyer, it was as if continents had shifted in the photography world.
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