Category Archives: Photographs: Night

Photographs: Night, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Moonlight, Thousand Island Lake, Mounts Ritter and Banner

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Moonlight, Thousand Island Lake, Mounts Ritter and Banner
Moonlight, Thousand Island Lake, Mounts Ritter and Banner. Ansel Adams Wilderness, California. July 26, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Photographed on a full moon summer evening in the Ansel Adams wilderness. Taking these photographs was a wonderful and unusual experience – I had to find the shot and then still silently for many minutes as the camera exposed the frame – as long as 15-20 minutes. It is rare to simply sit quietly for such a long time in such surroundings. :-)

(The posting of this photograph is somewhat timely since I’ll be participating in a night photography shoot a Mare Island Naval Shipyard this weekend sponsored by The Nocturnes.)

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Photographs: Night, Photographs: Pacific Northwest

Seattle Night Skyline Panorama

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Seattle Night Skyline Panorama

Seattle Night Skyline Panorama. Seattle, Washington. January 2, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. – all rights reserved.

Photographed from the Puget Sound shoreline in west Seattle on a winter evening. This small version obviously does not show the high level of detail found in the original panorama, which was composed by stitching together a set of 12 megapixel digital exposures.

(Note: panoramas created this way possess an astounding level of detail and can be printed very large.)

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Photographs: Night

Green Wall, Mare Island Naval Shipyard

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Green Wall, Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Green Wall, Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Vallejo, California. February 3, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell

This photograph comes from a night photography shoot with The Nocturnes, a SF Bay Area night photographers’ group. It is another image that I had passed over originally and which I rediscovered during my end-of-year search through the 2007 photograph archives.

Photographs: Night, Photographs: San Francisco

Transamerica Pyramid at Night

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Transamerica Pyramid at Night

Transamerica Pyramid at Night. San Francisco, California. December 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Just before Christmas I had the chance to loop out to Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay (on the return drive from winter solstice at Muir Woods) and photograph the night skyline of San Francisco.

The parking lot near the entrance to the old Treasure Island base is always a great spot from which to photograph the waterfront and skyline of San Francisco – but it is especially good during the holiday season when many downtown buildings are lit up by holiday lights.

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