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From Pacheco to the Sierra, Spring

From Pacheco to the Sierra, Spring
From Pacheco to the Sierra, Spring. Pacheco State Park, California. March 16, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Spring view from the grass and flower covered hills of the Pacheco Pass area across the Central Valley to the snow-covered Sierra Nevada. John Muir travelled across this pass to visit Yosemite in the 1800s and remarked on the amazing wildflower displays.

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Fisherman Above Winter Surf, Big Sur

Fisherman Above Winter Surf, Big Sur
Fisherman Above Winter Surf, Big Sur. Big Sur Coastline, California. February 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Black and white photograph of a solitary fisherman perched on a rocky outcropping above the raging surf of Big Sur on a wnter morning. This is a vertical format composition variation on a scene I have previously posted in landscape format.

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Fishing Above Winter Surf, Big Sur

Fishing Above Winter Surf, Big SurFishing Above Winter Surf, Big Sur. Big Sur Coastline, California. February 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. (Visit the site and click the image to see a larger version.)

Two fisherman fish from a rock outcropping above giant winter surf and shallow fog thrown up by the waves near Rocky Creek Bridge along the Big Sur coastline. A more distant perspective on a scene I uploaded earlier in a series of monochrome photographs.

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Team Gerolsteiner, Before the Prologue Stage

Gerolsteiner, Before the Prologue Stage
Team Gerolsteiner, Before the Prologue Stage. 2008 Amgen Tour of California. February 17, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Members of the Gerolsteiner team ride to the start of the prologue time trial of the 2008 Amgen Tour of California.

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