Site News Update

September 27, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Those who follow this site, either directly or via the RSS feed, may have noticed some “issues” during the past week. I’ve been working to deal with some hosting issues and this has caused some problems – and they may not be over just yet.

Those who follow the site via the feed, in particular, may wonder where the photo thumbnails have gone. I hope to restore them before long, but for now your best bet is to click on the article’s title link and visit the site to see them.

Thanks for your patience.

Dan

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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Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Boulder Strewn Meadow Near Townsley Lake

September 27, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Sunset light illuminates a meadow strewn with glacial boulders above Townsley Lake with ice fields of the Fletcher-Parsons ridge beyond in Yosemite National Park.

I made it up to this large plateau above Townsley Lake just before sunset on an early-September evening in 2008, and had the chance to quickly photograph several aspects of this area before (and slightly after) the sun went down. In this spot a large number of large glacial boulders are embedded in the level surface of the tundra and surrounded by late season dry grasses. Beyond the valley holding Townsley Lake is the high ridge between Fletcher Peak and Parsons Peak, and a number of permanent snow fields on this north face of the ridge.

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Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Late Summer, Townsley Lake and Choo-Choo Ridge

September 26, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Late season afternoon light shines across the lower slopes of Fletcher Peak and meadows surrounding Townsley Lake, with Choo-Choo Ridge in the distance. Yosemite National Park, California.

Townsley is a small open lake in an open valley a short walk up from Fletcher Lake in the Yosemite National Park backcountry near Vogelsang High Sierra camp. It is a spot fairly familiar to me from my many trips into this portion of the park, and my favorite time is near the end of the summer season and the start of autumn when the meadows go brown and golden and everything slows in preparation for winter. In this photograph the bushes are still green even though the grasses and small plants have begun to go dormant. Beyond the bench at the lower end of the lake and across the valley is Choo-Choo Ridge.

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Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Shoreline Rocks, Fletcher Lake

September 25, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Rocks along the shoreline of Fletcher Lake, with mixed forest and meadow rising up the lower slopes of Fletcher Peak – Yosemite National Park, California.

Yes, another in the series – again from my early September photography trek to the Fletcher Lake area in Yosemite. (For those who may wonder, I’m getting close to the end of this string of photographs of the shoreline of Fletcher Lake.) In this one it was not only the morning light and the interesting textures on the far shoreline that attracted me, but also the circle of rocks in the still water and just offshore.

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Boulder Strewn Meadow Near Townsley Lake

Late Summer, Townsley Lake and Choo-Choo Ridge

Shoreline Rocks, Fletcher Lake

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