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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Trees in Mist, Motherlode Near Drytown

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Trees in Mist, Motherlode Near Drytown
Trees in Mist, Motherlode Near Drytown. Sierra Nevada Gold Country, California. March 29, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Trees in the mist on a wet spring morning in the Motherlode near Drytown, California. This was photographed on a drive up some very lonely and narrow back roads above Highway 49 in Amador County. I only exposed four frames in this challenging weather, but since two of the four turned out to be interesting I’ll console myself with a 50% success rate. :-)

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Two Spring Trees in Mist – Motherlode

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Two Spring Trees in Mist
Two Spring Trees in Mist. Motherlode near Drytown, California. March 29, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Two spring trees in the mist with newly sprouted grasses underneath – Motherlode near Drytown, California. This was a tough photography day. It was raining lightly and the light was quite flat due to the heavy overcast and fog, and although I spent hours “on the prowl” I only managed to shoot this one scene.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Brick Wall with Arches, Mare Island

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Brick Wall with Arches, Mare Island
Brick Wall with Arches, Mare Island. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. March 22, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Old brick wall with arches, door, and windows in a building now used as a historical museum. This building is quite old, but inside this building is another older building that dates to the mid-1800s near the founding of the shipyard.

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Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Coastal Meadow and Clouds – Davenport, California

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Coastal Meadow and Clouds - Davenport, California
Coastal Meadow and Clouds. Davenport, California. March 1. 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

This simple minimalist landscape juxtaposes the horizontal form of coastal fields and meadows with interesting cloud formations in the wake of a late-winter storm along the California coast.

The location is just outside of the small coastal town of Davenport, just north of Santa Cruz on the coast between San Francisco and Monterey – an area that combines coastal scenery with farmland.

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