Photographs: Ocean & Coast, Photographs: Wildlife

Pelican Flock, Dusk

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Pelican Flock, Dusk - Point Lobos

Pelican Flock, Dusk – Point Lobos. Point Lobos State Park, California. December 30, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

There will be a series of these during the next few weeks. At the end of 2007 on day I drove down to Point Lobos late in the day, arriving just before sunset, and spent an hour and a half photographing the rocks, the surf, the sunset, and the passing birds.

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Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Bird Rocks – Point Lobos

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

Photographed in the last decent light on this late December evening, I was trying to capture the interesting color in the sky behind the small silhouettes of the birds on these offshore rocks. The long exposure created the misty effect on the water.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Pelican Sunset – Point Lobos

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Pelican Sunset

Pelican Sunset. Point Lobos, California. December 30, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

There I was, with a long lens on my camera to photograph something else, when I noticed the flocks of shorebirds flying along the coastline in the dusk light.

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Golden Light on Lembert Dome – Tuolumne Meadows

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Golden Hour on Lembert Dome
Golden Hour on Lembert Dome – Tuolumne Meadows. Yosemite National Park, California. July 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I like this photograph because it evokes the quiet and warmth of early evening summer light in the Sierra. This group of university students was bunched together on the summit of Lembert Dome above Yosemite National Park’s Tuolumne Meadows, quietly watching the sunset scene unfold.

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