Fence and Fog
Fence and Fog. Mission Peak Ridge, California. September 2, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
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Rock Formations, Mission Peak Ridge
Rock Formations, Mission Peak Ridge. San Francisco Bay Area, California. September 2, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
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Holiday Fun
One of the fun things about photography this time of year is that I hear from people in different parts of the country who are interested in giving a print as a gift. It is a nice tangible sign that my photographs speak to others and that someone is reading the blog!
I don’t push sales heavily through this web site, but I thought I’d mention that if anyone else is interested in having a print before, oh, say December 24… now would be a good time to ask!
(San Francisco Bay Area folks can cut things a bit closer, but still… )
– Dan
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Tioga Web Cam View
A web cam was recently installed (last year, I think) at the Tioga Pass entrance station to Yosemite National Park. It provides a view of the area just inside the park boundariers including portions of Mt. Gibb, Kuna Crest, and the Mono/Parker Passes area. (Coincidentally, similar to certain photos I have posted here recently.) Additional information is available here.
Here is a beautiful sunrise shot taken today:
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Tioga Lake, Mammoth Peak
Tioga Lake and Mammoth Peak. Tioga Pass, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
Now that December is here, it is nice to recall this warm July morning on one of last season’s first summer trips to the Sierra.
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Gambolin' Man Visits Muir Woods National Monument
From the Gambolin’ Man comes a (long!) post about this San Francisco Bay Area national monument (excerpt here – click the link above to see the whole thing):
Barely visible among thick foliage, a big ol’ pileated woodpecker is flying back and forth from tree to tree working frantically to scare up some insects for a hard-earned meal. The distinctive hammering sound of her long bill, poking and drilling away on the upper reaches of a fir tree trunk, can be heard from afar. A sharp-eyed little boy on the trail points up, exclaiming, “Mommy! Look! A wood-dicker!” – Gambolin’ Man [Gambolin’ Man]Muir Woods is another of those local Bay Area spots I seem to rarely get around to visiting. (Point Reyes is another.) I visited when I was much younger and a few years back a group of us went there so that we could hike up the hill to a pub serving European beers on an outdoor deck.
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So, Dan, What's With That Site Membership Thing?
Glad you asked… well, actually, glad I asked.
I was checking server stats tonight and I noticed that about 50 people are “members” of this web site. What does membership provide to you, or perhaps more important, what does it not provide to you?
Membership will not get you on anyone’s email spam lists. I’m the only one with access to the membership info since I run my own little server and I don’t share, much less sell, membership info. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get you free prizes either…
What membership does provide is access to the site’s discussion forum. If you are a member, click the “login” link in the Membership section of the sidebar and log in. Then click the create a new topic link to post a new message. You can also comment directly on one of my posts by clicking its Discuss link.
– Dan
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Twilight Clouds, Unicorn Peak
Twilight Clouds, Unicorn Peak. Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
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Old Photos
It is December, I’m busy with school work, the weather is a bit less cooperative with attempts to get out and do photography. One way I cope with this is to spend time going back over photographs I shot earlier in the year, but which did not then strike me as being the best images. Sometimes I find what I regard as real gems that I had overlooked, either because I didn’t notice them while focused on other images or because I simply had not yet figured out how to make these shots work.
The process is, frankly, a bit less fun and a bit less rewarding than going through brand new photos at the end of a trip. It involves viewing literally thousands of images on the computer, looking for something that might work that I skipped over earlier. When I spot something interesting I open the file and work on it for awhile, and often I end up simply closing the file and not saving the changes. I’d rather spend time on something that turns out to be a dead end than miss something that might be good, so I often open and work on quite a few images that turn out to go nowhere. However, among these I do find some that seem interesting enough that I’ll devote some time to them.
Some of the images that I’ve posted rhere ecently (and more that will come soon) fall into this category – interesting and worth (to me, at least) exploring a bit. Seeing what I can find and then get out of these images is a type of practice. The result may not be what I regard as my best images; instead, if you follow these pages (and G Dan Mitchell | Photography) you’ll see me working through some “problems” that may or may not result in great final images – and learning from the process.
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Mammoth Peak, Tarn
Mammoth Peak, Tarn. Yosemite National Park, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
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