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Photographs: Night

An Old Pier, Night

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An Old Pier, Night
Night photograph of the pilings of an old pier reflected in still water.

An Old Pier, Night. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Night photograph of the pilings of an old pier reflected in still water.

Photographed a few years ago at night in very dim lighting, these old pilings under a ship yard pier were reflected in the smooth water, made even smoother by the effects of a long exposure. You can tell that this structure has been here for some time.

The location is at an old ship yard in the San Francisco Bay, a place where naval ships were built and maintained for may decades — actually, since way back in the 1800s. The place was decommissioned in the 1990s and its character has changed since that time, though you can still find some remarkable historical structures if you poke around and get to know the place a bit.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Peninsula, Lake, Morning Light

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Peninsula, Lake, Morning Light
Morning light on a rocky peninsula, reflected in the deep green waters of an alpine lake

Peninsula, Lake, Morning Light. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Morning light on a rocky peninsula, reflected in the deep green waters of an alpine lake.

My morning visit to this lake above our basecamp was fortuitously timed. I’d love to take credit for great planning, but I must admit that luck played a big role. I had a plan — it involved heading up that way quite early and then taking the time to ascend a low ridge and walk to the far side of the lake. But none of that happened. While I did get a reasonably early start, I was soon distracted by other subjects along the route to the lake, and I ultimately arrived there later than I had planned. However, my inability to stick to my schedule played to my advantage.

I arrived at the lake’s outlet, a long and narrow channel of still water, to find that the “quiet light” (thanks, Keith Walklet) was still there, so I paused to photograph that scene in soft shadows. Soon I decided to move on and head up and over that low ridge… but I immediately saw another scene that I had to photograph, some lichen-covered rocks along the shoreline. Finishing with this distraction, I now realized that I really had to get moving and climb that ridge. But by now the sunlight was on that ridge, and its reflection was casting lovely soft light back on a rocky peninsula and the boulder-strewn shoreline. So — again! — I stopped to make photographs of this scene. But this one took longer, as the light continued to develop and increase, until sunlight began to illuminate the water itself, building abstractions of light and color and reflections in front of the peninsula. (In the end I never did cross that ridge or go to the other side of the lake!)

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Photographs: France, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

La Maison Des Chats

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La Maison Des Chats
A woman walks through reflected light and past shops on a Paris street

La Maison Des Chats. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A woman walks through reflected light and past shops on a Paris street

Out for a morning walk, I made this photograph in a place that was hugely busy later in the day and in the evening… but which was almost deserted so early. I suppose it is a street scene that could occur in almost any big city with old buildings, but this one happens to be in Paris.

It is a bit hard to explain why I like photographs like this one, but I’ll try. Part of it is the complex and almost accidental structure of the scene with its complex combination of storefronts, windows, doors, angled shadows, and text ranging from store signage to street art and graffiti. (You’ll have to look closely to notice some of it.) This “landscape” is what first got me to look in this direction, but I felt that it would be more interesting if someone populated it, so I waited long enough for a few people to walk by. The woman in this version of the scene not only provided that all-important human figure, but she also walked some colors into the scene that tie in with the general color scheme created by the buildings and signage. (And the text found there also might be worth some consideration.)

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Photographs: Mono Lake Basin, Photographs: Nature

Tufa, Morning Reflections

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Tufa towers and morning light reflecting on the surface of Mono Lake

Tufa, Morning Reflections. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Tufa towers and morning light reflecting on the surface of Mono Lake

The tufa towers are often the first subjects that people think of when they consider photographing at this location. I’ve photographed them many times and in may ways — up close, at a distance, in silhouette, in all kinds of conditions and at all times of day. I still find them fascinating, but I’ve come to see the lake as being more about other features now.

The greatest impression I get from the lake is immense space. This comes partly from the sheer size of this landlocked lake, but it may also come from a combination of often seeing it from elevated viewpoints and from the open and sometimes cloud-filled sky. And at early and late times of day the water takes on colors of sky and surrounding mountains, ranging from brilliantly intense to quite subtle. These colors are interrupted when the wind produces patterns on the surface of the water.

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