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

Middle Cathedral and El Capitan Meadow, Spring

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Lower Cathedral Rocks and El Capitan Meadow, Spring

Lower Cathedral Rocks and El Capitan Meadow, Spring. Yosemite Valley, California. May 10, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Early spring view of the trees and new grass of El Capitan with the lower face of Middle Cathedral and the Yosemite Valley rim beyond.

El Capitan Meadow is one of my favorite places to photograph in Yosemite – at just about any time of year, at any time of day, and in any conditions. This photograph was made on a beautiful early spring morning as the new spring growth was just beginning to show – the grasses are just coming up in the meadow and the trees are beginning to leaf out. Beyond the meadow is the smooth face of Middle Cathedral facing the morning light, and beyond that is a shaded portion of the south Valley rim.

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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: People, Photographs: Sports

Floyd Landis Warms Up

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Floyd Landis Warms Up

Floyd Landis Warms Up – Tour of California 2009. Sacramento, California. February 14, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Floyd Landis warms up before the prologue time trial of the 2009 Amgen Tour of Califoria, Sacramento, California.

Floyd warms up his body – and puts on his “race face” –  before the prologue time trial of the 2009 Amgen Tour of California professional bicycle race in Sacramento, California.

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Photographs: People, Photographs: Sports

Lance Armstrong, 2009 Tour of California

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Lance Armstrong, 2009 Tour of California

Lance Armstrong, 2009 Tour of California. Sacramento, California. February 14, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Lance Armstrong greeting the crowd at the team vehicle before the prologue stage of the 2009 Tour of California, Sacramento, California.

So begins my annual adventure in photographing professional bike racing as the Amgen Tour of California passes through the area. My sons and I went to Sacramento today to watch the prolog time trial, and this gave me a chance to try out my new camera and shoot some different subjects than what I usually shoot. We spent a couple hours before the race wandering around the course and visiting the team vehicles. I happened by the Astana Team area about an hour before Armstrong was to start his race, and I thought it might be about the right time to catch him starting to warm up – so I found a decent shooting location and waited. Here he had just emerged from the team vehicle – to the joy of hundreds of fans – and was signing autographs before getting on the training stand to warm up.

(Sort of ironic that my first photography with my new 5D II was shooting a sporting event! :-)

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