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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Four Redwoods, Muir Woods

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Four Redwoods, Muir Woods. Muir Woods National Monument, California. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.

Four Redwoods, Muir Woods. Muir Woods National Monument, California. February 28, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A detail of the weathered and burn-scarred trunks of four old redwood trees at Muir Woods National Monument, California.

Although I find it a very hard subject to photograph, I’m always intrigued by the textures and shapes of redwood tree trunks, especially when they are as rugged and time-worn as these are. There are four trees in this photo with the most distant picking up a bit more light than those in the foreground. This grouping is, I’m almost embarrassed to admit, right next to a very popular section of the most popular trail at Muir Woods.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Near Leidig Meadow, Lower Three Brothers – Yosemite Valley

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Near Leidig Meadow, Lower Three Brothers - Yosemite Valley

Near Leidig Meadow, Lower Three Brothers – Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. November 2, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Forest-rimmed near Liedig Meadow and the lower face of the Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley, California.

Actually, I’m not certain I have the name of this meadow quite right*, but the closest named area I can find on my maps of the Valley is listed as Leidig Meadow – so I’m sticking with this until I get a better answer. This is one more photograph from my November 2008 rainy weekend in The Valley – and like many of the others from this shoot it features diffused overcast light and colors altered by two days of steady rain.

Update: Several people have confirmed that this area is known as Leidig Meadow. Now I just need to determine the origin of that name.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Dry Grasses, Morning Light

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Dry Grasses, Morning Light

Dry Grasses, Morning Light. Calero Hills, California. February 1, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Golden dry grasses in morning light at Calero Hills, California.

I photographed these grasses and seeds near Castillero Pond at Calero on yet another sunny and dry winter morning on the first day of February.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Aspens and Cliff, North Lake

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Aspens and Cliff, North Lake

Aspens and Cliff, North Lake. Sierra Nevada, California. October 4, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Aspens with their last autumn leaves agains the backdrop of a cliff, North Lake.

This is a photograph from last fall’s autumn color photography in the eastern Sierra Nevada. This photograph was made on a blustery and snowy morning at North Lake, in the area above Bishop, California. I had finished shooting some of the more typical North Lake autumn scenes and was wandering back along the road when I started seeing the nearly bare aspens against the roadside cliffs.

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