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Photographs: Germany, Photographs: Travel

Bavarian Door

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Inscriptions and hardware on the of a small building in a Bavarian forest.

Bavarian Door. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Inscriptions and hardware on the of a small building in a Bavarian forest.

Some years back when we visited Europe we managed to meet up with a big group of extended family members near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, where we rented a big farm house (or so it seemed to us) for a week. In addition to doing all the usual family stuff, we visited a number of nearby sights, from some in Bavaria to the not-too-distance city of Salzburg, Austria.

Königsee, part of the Berchtesgaden National Park was very close by, so we took that famous electric boats up the lake to the landing at Kirsche St. Bartholoma. It was a nice day so we decided to take a hike to the Eiskapelle, a place at the base of a gigantic ice chute coming from the upper reaches of Watzmann, the highest peak in the neighborhood. Along the way we passed this small building, which I think may be a chapel of some sort, and I was intrigued by the rustic metal fittings, the many carvings, and the color.

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

Dry Corn Lily Plants, Autumn

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A bed of fallen and dry autumn corn lily plants, Yosemite National Park.

Dry Corn Lily Plants, Autumn. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A bed of fallen and dry autumn corn lily plants, Yosemite National Park.

The corn lily is one of my favorite Sierra plants. It tends to grow in meadowy, wet areas that are often particularly lush — and thus bug infested— in the early season. I think it is an attractive plant at almost any point in its annual life-cycle. It emerges as the green shoot as meadows come back to life early in the season, and before long the intense and lush bright green plants stand tall. But this state of perfection doesn’t last long, and soon blemishes appear — dark spots, holes, and eventually yellow areas as the end of the summer season draws near. (I’ve long thought of this change as the first sign of the coming Sierra autumn season.) Eventually the plants dry out, fall over, and when everything works out just right the form small carpets of brown and yellow and tan and fading green.

The corn lily is a favorite of photographers, most often photographed during that earlier lush, green stage. (It often seems like photographing such a beautiful plant would be easy, but once I start looking for the perfect conjunction of leaf shapes it inevitably becomes more difficult than I expected. )

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Bench and Shadows

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A bench and shadows, photographed through a window, Portland, Oregon.

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A bench and shadows, photographed through a window, Portland, Oregon.

This photograph may be a bit difficult to explain, especially to the satisfaction of those who might be looking for the usual landscape and nature images. For the most part, I don’t think I will try to explain it too much, except to say that perhaps it isn’t just about benches, and that for me it seems like it has a connection to work created by an artist that I like quite a bit.

Having said that — not a lot, but that’s all I got! — I can mention a few facts. I made the photograph on a visit to Portland, Oregon. We were out wandering around the edges of the central downtown area, and I was photographing all varieties of street subjects that I saw. This must have been a fairly quick shot, as street photographs can be, since it wasn’t a subject I lingered on.

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Photographs: Death Valley, Photographs: Desert, Photographs: Nature

Sand Dune Plants, Evening

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Low plants eke out an existence on Death Valley sand dunes.

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Low plants eke out an existence on Death Valley sand dunes.

Since travel to places as distant as Death Valley National Park is off the table right now, I’m vicariously experiencing one of my favorite places to be in the winter by reviewing my raw file archive from a visit in 2013. I visit DEVA every winter and sometimes in early spring, and I hope that California travel restrictions will moderate in a month or two from now and I’ll still be able to visit this year.

As I go back over these photographs, it looks like it was a fairly typical sort of day in DEVA for me. I had gotten up very early, driven east from the Valley, and turned onto Titus Canyon Road. I spent the morning and early afternoon on that route, and perhaps I share a few photographs from that familiar adventure soon, too. It looks like I returned to camp, probably for a late lunch, before heading back on in the late afternoon to photograph in sand dunes. Along the way to a spot I had in mind, I paused to photograph these small plants growing among the patterns of windblown sand, no doubt momentarily marveling at the apparent challenge of finding a way to live in such a spot.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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