Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Ocean & Coast, Photographs: Wildlife

Young Elephant Seal Among Gulls

July 15, 2009 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Seagulls take to the air around a young elephant seal at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal rookery, California.

This young elephant seal had just begun to wriggle its way up the beach at the Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery when the flock of birds in front of it began to take to the air. A moment later there was a veritable cloud of birds surrounding this animal.

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Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

This Place Called Poetry

July 14, 2009 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

An odd juxtapostion of signs on a street kiosk in San Francisco, California.

Sometimes, if you walk around with your eyes open, you see juxtapositions that almost defy description – so I won’t describe; I’ll just post.

These are images from a sidewalk kiosk on a street in downtown San Francisco.

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Workshop on the Business of Outdoor and Nature Photography

July 13, 2009 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

This looks interesting: Gary Crabbe and Charlie Borland are presenting a Business of Outdoor and Nature Photography Workshop this November in the Bryce Canyon area. They say that the workshop takes place during the day, leaving photographers time to do photography during the “good light” before and after. Of course, any photographer knows that this means completely packed 18 hour days starting at 3:30 a.m. and concluding when you can no longer keep your eyes open. :-)

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.

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Sierra photographs on the way

July 13, 2009 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A few people may be aware of a series of photographs I made at Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park last week, and some may wonder why they are not here and why they instead see photographs of things like urban San Francisco.

Patience. :-)

While I post some material here on the day that you see it – like what I’m writing at this very moment – much of the content has been queued up ahead of time. Since I knew last week that I would be away in Yosemite for four days I had about a week of posts and photographs already in the hopper, so to speak. The first of the Tuolumne photographs will appear here on Thursday if all goes as planned.

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Young Elephant Seal Among Gulls

This Place Called Poetry

Workshop on the Business of Outdoor and Nature Photography

Sierra photographs on the way

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