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Upgrades to Daily Photo Posts

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I have updated the format of the daily posts to make it a bit easier for you to interact with them at the website. It is now easier to leave a comment or question on each post, and I have added a “like” button. (I won’t mind at all if you use it! ;-) I have also added some easy-to-use “share” buttons you can use to repost to social media.

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    I am posting this comment on my own post so that I can quickly test it to see if it works correctly. Fun, eh?

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News, Publications, Sierra Nevada Fall Color, Site News

I’m A Contributor To B&H “Pro Tips” Article On Fall Color

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Thank you to B&H Photo for including me in their new article on photographing fall color: Photo Tips and Favorite Gear for Successful Fall Foliage Pictures.

Autumn Color Transition
Brush and aspens undergoing the autumn color transition in the eastern Sierra Nevada

Excerpt:

“California-based G. Dan Mitchell notes that the color season can last months in California’s Eastern Sierra, given the large variations in elevation, precipitation, range of north/south latitude, and other factors. He explains, “When color is absent in one location, it may be great not far away. In the Eastern Sierra, this often means going to a higher or lower elevation. While aspens can start changing color at higher elevations in the second half of September, some trees at lower elevations may be colorful a full month later.”

“Author of the 2015 book, California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra, Mitchell notes that the Sierra offers a range of fall foliage opportunities far greater than many people realize.”

(About the “color season can last months…” comment. I can often find the first hints of coming autumn color early in September, and even in late August sometimes. I can still find low elevation color in the last half of October.)

Also included in the article – G Dan Mitchell, Bryan Carnathan, Moose Peterson, Dan Bailey, Matt Payne, and Chad DiBlasio

Enjoy!

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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Morning Musings, Site News

What’s With the Daily Photographs? (Morning Musings 9/28/14)

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Mo's Cloud
:Mo’s Cloud: — Lenticular “sierra wave” clouds above the eastern Sierra Nevada

It occurs to me that many people are probably aware that I post a new photograph every day — but that few know how long I’ve been doing this nor my reasons for this seemingly obsessive task. Today I’m sharing a bit of the back story.

I’ve been building and operating websites since about 1995.  I’ll skip over a bunch of other interesting (to me) steps in the previous millennium and my first adventures with weblogs (now known as “blogs”) in the 1990s — though this could be a story for another day. Early on I created a blog about backpacking and other outdoor subjects called “Dan’s Outside,” and it gradually came to hold more and more photographs. At some point — likely around the time I acquired my first DSLR in the early 2000s — the photographs began to be the primary focus, and in 2005 I created a photography blog. The photograph at the top of this post was one of the earliest I shared, back in July of 2005.

Although I have not kept careful records, it looks like the daily photograph posts probably began to appear about a month later in August 2005, and they have continued mostly without a break since that time. That’s a lot of photographs! I haven’t actually counted, but it must be getting close to 3000 or more.

It would be reasonable to ask why I have done this.

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New Comments Features Added

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I have added a feature to the comment pages on the site that should allow you to receive email notifications of follow-up posts in comment threads. (Site members can leave comments or ask questions by clicking the comment link on any post at this site.)

On a related note, I’ve added a list of most recent thread comments to the sidebar, and the active discussions link at the top of the page provides a more complete list of topics and comment threads.