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Dogwood Blossom, Leaves, and Branches

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Dogwood Blossom, Leaves, and Branches

Dogwood Blossom, Leaves, and Branches. Yosemite Valley, California. May 10, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A single blossom and a few leaves on the branches of a dogwood tree, Yosemite Valley, California.

And still I continue with the dogwood theme! For quite a few California photographers who include landscape and nature among their subjects, enjoying the annual reappearance of the Yosemite Valley dogwood blooms is one of the happy traditions of spring – so enjoy! And yes, I still probably have a few more from this year’s “dogwood shoot” back in early May.

I photographed this dogwood flower with its slender branch and new leaves in a shaded portion of the upper Valley nor far from the Mirror Lake trail.

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Dogwood Blossoms and Branch

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Dogwood Blossoms and Branch

Dogwood Blossoms and Branch. Yosemite Valley, California. May 10, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Spring dogwood tree blossoms and leaves in Yosemite Valley.

Yes, another dogwood… but, hey, it is spring and the dogwoods are (or were) blooming! These were photographed in Yosemite Valley in early May of this year on an intense one-day photography trip to The Valley. I shot this one during more or less the midday hours, rather than during the more typical early/late light. However, this has its advantages, too, if one can find good shade with open illumination. The color balance at this time of day seems to go more toward balanced white and the broken and filtered light on the ground makes an interesting background.

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Dogwood Blossom, Branches, and Leaves

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Dogwood Blossom, Branches, and Leaves

Dogwood Blossom, Branches, and Leaves. Yosemite Valley, California. May 9, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A spring dogwood blossom cradled in dogwood leaves and branches, Yosemite Valley.

I photographed this single dogwood blossom nestled among branches and leaves against the background of a shaded tree trunk. I found this flower in upper Yosemite Valley right beside the road/trail to Mirror Lake. Although I shot in the middle of the afternoon – not exactly a time of favorable light – the forest canopy was thick enough here to diffuse the light.

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Rocks, Stump, Spring Runoff – Tenaya Creek

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Rocks, Stump, Spring Runoff - Tenaya Creek

Rocks, Stump, Spring Runoff – Tenaya Creek. Yosemite Valley, California. May 9, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Tenaya Creek spring runoff flows over and onto rocks and tree stumps, Yosemite Valley.

This is one more in my sequence of photographs of spring runoff flow in Tenaya Creek below Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley – photographs made during the second weekend of May. In this one I thought I would combine the flow over the streambed rocks with the water running up against the more or less immovable object of the old tree stump. The colors in the water are a combination of the intrinsic green of the water itself, the colors of the rocks over which the creek flows, and light reflected from sunlit vegetation on the opposite bank of the creek.

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