Reflections #3, Experience Music Project. Seattle, Washington. July 30, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell (Sales).
The story: This is another in a series of photographs of reflections on the Gehry-designed Experience Music Project building in Seattle.
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George Barr has posted an interesting piece in which he describes the process he used to arrive at a final black and white photograph of an interior shot. He covers both technical issues and esthetic considerations.
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Frost and Fog, Sunrise. Yosemite National Park. October 7, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: I was driving up to the Tuolumne Meadows area to meet a backpacking buddy for our final pack trip of the 2006 season. I had heard reports of snow on the road and a temporary closure so I decided not to leave for the mountains the night before but to instead get up very early and drive straight up to the trailhead. I drove into the park and turned left onto Tioga Pass Road… only to come to a road closure a mile later. I had just seen this foggy, frost-covered meadow which, on a typical drive to a pack trip I might have passed, thinking, “I really should stop and take a photo.” With the road closed, I had no excuse so I pulled out the camera and tripod and wandered off into the frost covered grasses.
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Morning, Mission Peak Ridge. October 28, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
The story: I often hike to the top of Mission Peak, but recently I have begun taking a detour from the busy main trail and instead following an alternate route that reaches the ridge just south of the peak. On this day I had hoped to arrive by sunrise but didn’t quite make it. However, I was attracted to this post-sunrise light creating a pattern of shadows on a ridge just west of the peak – light that would not have been there at sunrise.
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