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Today’s Photo Coming Soon – Starting a Series of New York City Photographs

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I spent last week in New York City doing a variety of things: photographing a couple nights of “Così fan tutte: Some Assembly Required,” exploring museums, eating a lot of wonderful food, visiting family, getting lost on the subway, and more. It has been a decade since I’ve been there, and this was my first chance to try to do photography in NYC. As many of you know, that is an almost overwhelming endeavor – there so much to see and do there that it is barely possible to skim the surface of the possibilities. But I tried. And some of the photographs will begin to appear here very soon.

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News

“We interrupt our regular programming…”

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… for photographs from the 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

I know that at least a few visitors to this site might wonder where the natural and urban landscapes and related photographs that I normally post every day have gone, and what the heck is going on with all the bicycle racing photographs. A few thoughts about this follow:

I’ll continue to post photographs from the Tour during while the tour is underway. It ends this coming weekend in Southern California. (No, I won’t be there, but I still have a good number of photographs from northern California to post.)

If you are looking for landscape, urban landscape, nature and other more typical subjects at this web site, you can still find these subjects. Today there are still a few lower down on the home page, and you can click the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page to find such photographs that were posted recently. In addition you can find them using the text search box or by visiting the gallery via the link in the sidebar. And once the Tour ends, even though I’ll still have more cycling photographs to share, the main subjects at this blog will once again be those that visitors may be more familiar with.

Every time I photograph the Tour I am reminded that sports and landscape and nature photography are not completely separate and independent worlds. The day before I photographed the first stage of the Tour I went to the California coast and photographed pelicans and other shorebirds in flight. I can hardly imagine a better way to tune up my vision and technique for tracking and photographing moving cyclists! And, though I wasn’t at the Tour on that day, the peloton passed by the very spots where I photographed those pelicans just a couple days later. As I watched the broadcast coverage of the Tour that afternoon, I was surprised but very pleased to see that that the cameras in the peloton turned away from the riders… and toward this very landscape that I shoot so often.

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” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.

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Locations

Photographing Death Valley – Part 1

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This material concerning Death Valley is unavailable while revisions are underway. Thanks for your understanding. In the meantime, I will respond to comments left on this page.

(Update 3/22/13: The planned update to this article has been long-delayed, and for that I apologize. It turns out that the way I want to approach the subject in the revised version is a bit more complicated than I expected. I had anticipated completing an update in early 2013, but I decided to wait until after this year’s shoot in Death Valley so that I would write with that experience fresh in my mind.)

Also, more (but not all!) of my Death Valley photography is found here: https://gdanmitchell.com/gallery/v/NaturalWorld/TheLandscape/Desert/DeathValley/

(Note: After a conversation with a friend who is a retired Yosemite ranger, in which he articulately explained why he has concerns about sharing overly specific information about sensitive and fragile places too widely, I have decided to revise this article about photographing Death Valley. The goal is to remove some of the unnecessarily specific details about places that don’t need a lot more publicity, and to let photographers who are new this wonderful park learn about it the way I did and continue to do – by slowly exploring and adding to my knowledge and experience of the place rather than looking for a quick list of the “great shots.” I hope you’ll understand.

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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Annual Favorites

Good-bye 2009 – Hello 2010!

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Happy New Year to everyone – and may this be a year of wonderful photography for you! (My 2009 Favorites are posted.)

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” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.

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