Spring 2008 in Death Valley

(Update 2025: Due to server changes over the years, some older photographs no longer appear in old articles. Unfortunately thesis one that is affected. See my gallery site for hundreds of Death Valley photographs.)

Being a college faculty member I’m fortunate to get some time off for spring break around the beginning of April. During the past few years I’ve headed to Death Valley National Park to do a bit of photography during the first week of April, and this year was no exception. The plan this year was to meet my brother at Stovepipe Wells on April 1 – he had already been in the area for about a week – and then spend the next four days hitting some of the many interesting photographic sites in and around the Valley.

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From Pacheco to the Sierra, Spring

From Pacheco to the Sierra, Spring
From Pacheco to the Sierra, Spring. Pacheco State Park, California. March 16, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Spring view from the grass and flower covered hills of the Pacheco Pass area across the Central Valley to the snow-covered Sierra Nevada. John Muir travelled across this pass to visit Yosemite in the 1800s and remarked on the amazing wildflower displays.

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Fisherman Above Winter Surf, Big Sur

Fisherman Above Winter Surf, Big Sur
Fisherman Above Winter Surf, Big Sur. Big Sur Coastline, California. February 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Black and white photograph of a solitary fisherman perched on a rocky outcropping above the raging surf of Big Sur on a wnter morning. This is a vertical format composition variation on a scene I have previously posted in landscape format.

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Fishing Above Winter Surf, Big Sur

Fishing Above Winter Surf, Big SurFishing Above Winter Surf, Big Sur. Big Sur Coastline, California. February 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. (Visit the site and click the image to see a larger version.)

Two fisherman fish from a rock outcropping above giant winter surf and shallow fog thrown up by the waves near Rocky Creek Bridge along the Big Sur coastline. A more distant perspective on a scene I uploaded earlier in a series of monochrome photographs.

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