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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Crane and Building With Green Windows, Night

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Crane and Building With Green Windows, Night
Crane and Building With Green Windows, Night. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. March 22, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Night color photograph of an old shipyard crane and a building with green windows at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. Photographed during a full moon outing with The Nocturnes SF Bay Area night photography group.

Mare Island at night seems to provide an almost endless range of subjects and lighting. I’ve been there many times and hope to return frequently

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Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Four Surf Fisherman

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Four Surf Fishermen
Four Surf Fishermen. Gazos Creek, California. March 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

This is one of those landscape photographs in which appearances can be deceiving. I suppose it looks fairly calm and quiet, but getting this shot was the result of working very quickly and spontaneously with a very long lens as the subjects moved quickly through the scene. I had just gotten out of my car with a plan to observe and then photograph the seascape when I noticed the group of fisherman heading across the sand toward a rocky headland to the south.

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Photographs: Wildlife

Two Gulls in Formation, Blue Sky

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Two Gulls in Formation, Blue Sky
Two Gulls in Formation, Blue Sky. Pacific Ocean Coastline, California. March 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Photographed along the California coast north of Santa Cruz on the first of March. I found a spot at the top of a coastal cliff where the birds flying along the coast came almost directly overhead.

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Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Shop Buildings at Night

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Mare Island Shops at Night
Mare Island Shops at Night. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. March 22, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

At least once a year I join The Nocturnes (the San Francisco Bay Area night photographers’ group led by Tim Baskerville) to photograph the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. This amazing historical site near Vallejo, California was the first US Navy shipyard on the west coast and dates to the mid-1800s. It was active until the late 1990s. It is a night photographer’s paradise with wonderful old buildings ranging form officers’ homes to dry docks to huge cranes to wonderful old brick factory buildings

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