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AVIAN: Birds In A Changing World

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Two of my photographs (seen below) were selected to be part of AVIAN: Birds In A Changing World, a current exhibit featuring  work by more than 40 artists — photographers, painters, sculptors, ceramicists, and much more.

Black-necked Stilt Taking Flight
“Black-necked Stilt Taking Flight” — A black-necked Stilt takes off from a California Central Valley pond

The show benefits Yosemite Audubon and Sierra Art Trails, and is now open at Gallery Five in Oakhurst, California, a Yosemite National Park gateway community. You can find out more — and see/purchase the art — at the AVIAN facebook page and you can also view a video about the show.

Snow Goose Maelstrom
Snow Goose Maelstrom

The show is open now and continues through January 14, 2018 at Gallery Five at Gallery Row in Oakhurst. Inquiries sales from the exhibit may be directed to the gallery by phone at 559-683-5551 or by email admin@sierraarttrails.org.

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AVIAN: Birds in a Changing World

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AVIAN: Birds in a Changing World opened this week at Gallery Five in Oakhurst, California and runs through January 14. The gala reception is this Saturday, December 9th at 4:00-8:00PM at Gallery Five — 40982 Hwy 41, Suite 5, Oakhurst.

The juried exhibition features work by more than 60 artists, and includes two of my photographs.

Snow Goose Maelstrom
Snow Goose Maelstrom
Black-necked Stilt Taking Flight
“Black-necked Stilt Taking Flight” — Black-necked Stilt Taking Flight

I’m going to make it a full “avian day” on Saturday, greeting the dawn and a few thousand of my avian friends in the Great Central Valley before heading on over to Oakhurst for the reception. Hope to see some of you there!

You can find out more at the exhibition’s Facebook page.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photogra

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Fractured Granite

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Fractured Granite
A fractured granite cliff in the Eastern Sierra Nevada

Fractured Granite. Sierra Nevada, California. October 9, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A fractured granite cliff in the Eastern Sierra Nevada

I made this photograph on a morning when I was in the eastern Sierra to photograph autumn subject, particularly the annual color change of the aspen trees. Being in a place where I have photographed many times, I quickly dispensed with the familiar (and even iconic) subjects in the area and then, as I like to do, simply wandered slowly with my eyes open, looking for little elements of the larger landscape that caught my eye. Although I have walked past this granite quite a few times, it may be the first time I have photographed it.

Granite (along with, as geologist friends might remind me, rocks informally referred to as granite) is ubiquitous in the Sierra, and is one of the most characteristic features of the Sierra Nevada experience. Not only is there a lot of it, but it has been laid bare by (mostly) glacial action, and it appears in its original locations and in places where the rocks have been moved by water and ice. As a person who has hiked here for decades and who spent a few years as a rock climber, I developed an intimate familiarity with this rock. It can be smooth or rough, uniform in color and texture or interspersed with veins and crystals. It can be freezing cold in winter or benignly warm on a summer day. It may be nearly white, gray, or incorporate a host of color variations. It seems to be solid and unchanging, but there is evidence everywhere that it has been moved and broken and shaped.

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

River of Aspens

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River of Aspens
A grove of colorful autumn aspen trees traces the path of a Sierra Nevada gully

River of Aspens. Sierra Nevada, California. October 9, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A grove of colorful autumn aspen trees traces the path of a Sierra Nevada gully

Perhaps a more appropriate title could be “Another River of Aspens” — such features are ubiquitous in the Sierra and other locations, where aspens frequently are found along stream beds and can spread out as water might when they reach the lower and flatter elevations. As a result, the “streams” of trees can seem to flow in almost that same way that water might. This is a particularly obvious example, as the trees meander along the descending gully, spread out into a fan at its base, and then arrive at the shoreline of a lake. (The pattern also is similar to that of alluvial fans and even some forms seen below glaciers.)

We were at this location rather early on a fall morning. It is a place that is popular — a bit too popular these days — with photographers and others, but hard to resist if one is nearby for other purposes. We arrived before dawn and spent some time photographing in the cold, pre-sunrise light before we packed up and headed off to those “other purposes” nearby. This very early light is different from what we experience a bit later in the day. It can be quite blue in quality — often so much so that compensation is required during post processing — but the soft light can produce a more subtle effect with light getting into the shadows and revealing some of their details.

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 and Amazon.
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