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Photographs: Fall, Photographs: Fall Color, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Aspen-Lined Creek

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Aspen-Lined Creek
A creek lined with autumn aspen trees flows over rocks in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Aspen-Lined Creek. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

A creek lined with autumn aspen trees flows over rocks in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.

This photograph deserves another (semi-)apology. (Well, sort of…) This is another of those spots that I’ve passed for decades but never (at least that I recall) stopped to photograph. It isn’t that I never noticed it — rather, it is one of those places that almost everyone stops to photograph. Sometimes, almost out of sheer stubbornness, I refuse to join the throngs at such places.

But then, every so often, I do stop and perhaps find something interesting in such a place. In this case it was the colorful reflection on the water that picked up the colors of a sunny hillside and aspens beyond the border of the photograph… combined with the lovely color in the trees that line the creek.

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Photographs: Fall, Photographs: Fall Color, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Eastern Sierra Autumn Sunrise

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Piute Peak Sunrise
Autumn aspen trees at the shoreline of a subalpine lake below sunrise light on Piute Peak.

Eastern Sierra Autumn Sunrise. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Autumn aspen trees at the shoreline of a subalpine lake below peaks in sunrise light.

I have photographed at this location for so many years that I no longer count on it to be a place to find something new… unless it looks like conditions might be unusually good. (I do still find other interesting subjects “in the neighborhood.”) But it is my tradition to check in for a short visit every year, and that’s more or less why I was there this October.

The morning was somewhat unpromising. There was a lot of color, but the patterns were unusual — green where I would have expected yellow and orange, and full color in places where I might have expected it to be green. And it was… windy. Very windy. Capturing a nice reflection on the waters of the lake was a lost cause. But sunrise is sunrise, and it is almost always a beautiful sight this ridge.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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

Patterns In Water and Stone

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Patterns In Water and Stone
Granite shapes, colors, and textures reflected in still water, Sierra Nevada.

Patterns In Water and Stone. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Granite shapes, colors, and textures reflected in still water, Sierra Nevada.

Back in September I made my first summer visit of the year to the Yosemite high country. It isn’t ‘like me to miss almost an entire season up there, but we were traveling elsewhere this summer. To say the least, I was overdue to a visit to “my” mountains! I spent a few days camped just below the crest outside of Yosemite, and photographed both inside the park and along the eastern escarpment of the range.

This photograph comes from inside the park, at a place that has a bit of history in our family. When our (now grown) “kids” were very young, it was my tradition to introduce them to backpacking when they were three-years-old, and the trips always started at the trailhead next to this pond. The hike to our overnight camp was all of 1.2 miles, but to a small child I’m sure it counted as a major expedition. So, having an afternoon free during last month’s visit, I decided to go back and day-hike this little route. I made the photograph as I returned from the walk.

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” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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Photographs: Europe, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Portugal, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Porto Street, Night

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“Porto Street, Night” — Two men walk down a narrow Porto street at night.

Porto is a fascinating and complex city and there is a lot to see there. But I think that we found the Ribeira District to be the most interesting part. This is the area of narrow, winding streets on the steep hillside above the Duoro River. It is, of course, popular with tourists, especially right above the shoreline of the river. But a short walk from the most busy areas, especially at the right hour of the day, and the crowds can diminish and the ambiance of the district takes over.

We walk a lot when we visit cities, and on this day we made a big loop that took us up this narrow, cobblestone street. We passed through at what seems like an ideal time in terms of light — it was dark enough that the artificial light illuminated and colored the scene, but there was still a bit of ambient light to reveal details outside the light and produce blue-tinted shadows.

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