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Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: Pandemia, Photographs: Sequoia-Kings Canyon, Photographs: Urban/Street

The Back Door

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The Back Door
The rear entrance to a local market.

The Back Door. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

The rear entrance to a local market.

So, can we imagine that this is the, uh, “urban wilderness?” It does contains some relatively very wild areas, and there is wildlife of a sort. If you look around carefully enough at the right time you can find a degree of solitude.

This is a back entrance to a grocery store, photographed across a deserted parking lot. Someone has abandoned their cart next to the door, perhaps expecting the store employees to discover it there and reclaim it.

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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Photographs: Urban/Street

Urban Scene from Pandemia

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Urban Scene from Pandemia
Vehicles and an old house in Pendemia

Urban Scene from Pandemia. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Vehicles and an old house in Pendemia.

Our world, and welcome to it. For the great majority of us, normal activities have been put on hold, including our regular trips into the natural landscape to make photographs. Some possibilities are opening back up — I’m hoping to visit redwoods and the coast before too much longer. But as case numbers tick back up, it becomes clearer that we are not going back to “normal” for a while.

So I walk. All over my local neighborhood, generally in perhaps a two or tow-and-a-half mile radius. One thing I can be grateful for — though probably not the only thing — is that I’m “discovering” neighborhoods and features within walking distance that I would not otherwise have seen.

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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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Spring Flowers

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Spring Flowers
Spring flowers in the hills of Central California.

Spring Flowers. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Spring flowers in the hills of Central California.

Back in 2019 we had quite an impressive spring wildflower season in most of California. The quality and number of flowers is extremely precipitation dependent in California — and depending upon the moisture levels we can see a ho-hum season or something the bursts forth is spectacular form, covering hillsides with carpets of color.

I made this photograph in one of those “carpeted” places. We arrived here at the peak color of a peak season, and the number and variety of flowers were astonishing.

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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Photographs: Abstract, Photographs: Night, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Balloons

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Balloons
Night photography in San Francisco

Balloons. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Night photography in San Francisco.

On a summer evening back in 2015 a group of photographers met up on San Francisco for night of street photography. Actually, we began in the very late afternoon, paused for a group dinner before sunset, and then emerged from dinner before dark and began wandering through areas around the Chinatown district, looking for subjects and light.

I love to photograph the urban landscape at night, using handheld cameras and working quickly in street photography style. The particular location on this evening was a group decision, but any place with narrow streets, lots of shops open at night, and light spilling onto the sidewalks works for me. I photographed these balloons in a shop window, using a longer shutter speed and playing with motion blur.

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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