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Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Urban/Street

Wall and Face

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A building and a reflection in a window.

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A building and a reflection in a window.

This is another Portland, Oregon photograph, though there’s not much in it to specifically connect to that city — you could find buildings like this in any number of cities in the US.

My recollection — and it has been a few years — is that I made this photograph by aiming toward the window of a business, most likely a restaurant, and catching the reflection of the building in the windows. But the reflection was still semi-transparent, so the face on the interior display ended up seeming to float across the surface of the building — a sort of “Photoshop in the flesh” effect.

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Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Urban/Street

Gazines

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A store window in Portland, Oregon

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A store window in Portland, Oregon

Does anyone remember these things? I believe they were called books. Full of paper pages (not web pages), and sold in places called “bookstores.” There is an entire world inside each of the volumes on the shelves behind this window. (Though not a single gazine in sight, from what I can tell.) I hear recall, though the memory is fading after a year in Pandemia, that we used to go to such places and just sort of browse.

Portland, Oregon residents might recognize the window and the shop it belongs to. The photograph comes from a visit to Portland some years back on which we had plenty of time to just wander around with no particular goals in mind — which tends to leave plenty of time for observing and photographing.

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Photographs: Birds, Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Wildlife

Flock of Cranes, Tule Fog

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Flock of Cranes, Tule Fog
A flock of lesser sandhill cranes reflected in a pond on a winter morning of tule fog.

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A flock of lesser sandhill cranes reflected in a pond on a winter morning of tule fog.

This photograph comes from late last year, a few days before Christmas, when I spent a day photographing birds in the Central Valley of California. I picked a particularly lonely day — a good thing right now! — and arrived well before dawn after driving through thick tule fog. When I arrived in the first faint light I could hear birds but I certainly could not see them. I set out to see if I could find any that were close enough to be visible in the fog, and eventually I came upon a very large group of lesser sandhill cranes that had settled in and around this pond.

On most mornings the cranes tend to depart as soon as the sun rises, but perhaps the thick fog persuaded them to stick around a bit longer. In any case, although it was well after sunrise by this point, a very large group of cranes seemed to be feeding and generally milling about slowly. At one point this group seemed to adopt a common goal of walking across the scene from right to left, and I was able to photograph them lined up and facing the same direction.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Fog and Reeds

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Dense winter tule fog, tule islands, and a wetland pond.

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Dense winter tule fog, tule islands, and a wetland pond.

From time to time I like to do visual experiments, seeing how minimal the content of the image can be and still work. Sometimes these photograph balance on an edge between portrayal of the real and pure color and form. I feel that images like this can portray or evoke the mood of a subject, even if they don’t include much detail at all. The idea is to suggest more than to tell.

The winter tule fogs of California’s Central Valley often do a fine job of minimizing landscape details. (They also do a fine job of minimizing the details of the roads I drive to get there, but I digress…) These shallow fog layers settle in during the winter and can be some of the thickest fogs you’ll ever encounter. Oddly, because they are so shallow, sometimes your vision straight upwards is barely impeded at all — and as I made this photograph the nearly-full moon was clearly visible overhead. But the view out into the landscape was radically limited, hardly extending more than a few tens of feet and muting details of closer subjects.

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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