Ghost Forest, Near Tawny Point

March 18, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Ghost Forest, Near Tawny Point. John Muir Trail, Sequoia National Park, California. August 9, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Black and white photograph of a high altitude “ghost forest” on the John Muir Trail near Tawny Point, Sequoia National Park. These dead trees are located right at timberline in the southern Sierra Nevada at an altitude of close to 12,000′. It appears that an older forest died and that a new one is in its infancy.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Bird Rock and Surf, Dusk

March 17, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Bird Rock and Surf, Dusk. Point Lobos State Reserve, California. December 30, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Shorebirds on an offshore rock at dusk in winter surf.

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Technique

A Giant Panorama…

March 16, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

… but I sure can’t figure out how to share it here in any reasonable way. :-)

I was at Pacheco State Park (California) this morning, and I made it up onto a ridgetop with a view all the way across the Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada range. Having the big lens with me I decided to make a multi-shot panorama of the scene, and I ended up with a photograph consisting of eight 12 megapixel full frame images. It includes parts of the Pacheco Pass area of the Diablo Range, San Luis Reservoir, the width of the Central Valley, and a good long chuck of the Sierra.

This thing is huge: printed 16 inches tall it would be about 100 inches wide, and it would be close to 10 feet wide if printed 18 inches tall! I made a 1000 pixel-wide version, hoping to post it here, but even that size is too small in the vertical dimension. Hmmm… what to do?

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.

Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Rocks and Winter Surf, Dusk

March 16, 2008 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Post sunset color on off-shore rocks and surf at Point Lobos, California.

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G Dan Mitchell Photography

Ghost Forest, Near Tawny Point

Bird Rock and Surf, Dusk

A Giant Panorama…

Rocks and Winter Surf, Dusk

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