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Photographs: Abstract, Photographs: Nature

Succulent Leaves

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Succulent Leaves
Patterns formed by the bright edges of succulent leaves.

Succulent Leaves. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Patterns formed by the bright edges of succulent leaves.

This image comes from 2013, and was made in a sort of off-hand manner on a family visit to San Diego. (Off the top of my head, I can’t actually recall exactly where I photographed it, though it may have been at Balboa Park.) Indeed, it is another photograph that emerges from my pandemic review of my archives of old raw files.

Photographs like this one are both fun and challenging, at least in my experience. Like many photographers, I’m intrigued by forms, shapes, curves as abstract things, and they often underly photographs that seem to be about more obvious content. The opportunity to work with subjects where these elements of shape are almost the entirely of the image is hard to resist. It also almost always (again in my personal experience) turns out to be harder than I think it will be. More often than not, when I first see such a subject I am certain that it will work… but as I begin to actually make the image small things interfere with what I’m looking for. In this case, I do like the result, and I enjoy trying to see the pattern of the bright leaf edges as their own abstract form.

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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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: The Southwest, Photographs: Utah

Edges

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A conjunction of striated sandstone in a Utah canyon.

Edges. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A conjunction of striated sandstone in a Utah canyon.

I photographed this somewhere in Utah, almost certainly in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and I’m pretty sure I remember which little canyon I was walking through… but I can’t say that I recall the exact spot. We had driven to a rather out-of-the-way location, wandered up a shallow stream, and entered a lovely, quiet, light-filled canyon full of the usual twists and turns.

The canyon presented a veritable feast of photography — plants, reflections of sky and canyon walls in the water, sand, red rock walls, and more. Given the narrowness of the canyon, the subjects all belonged to the “intimate landscape” genre, and it was rare to have a view of anything more than a few yards away. And everywhere the star of the show was there light reflected down from above and bouncing off the sandstone canyon walls.

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 and Amazon.

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