G Dan Mitchell | Photography

Power Poles. Mission Peak. February 26, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I took this shot yesterday while walking along a deserted stretch of ridgetop between Mission Peak and Monument Peak in the hills east of the southern San Francisco Bay. It is a test shot, actually - I need to go back, set up the tripod, attach the right lens, and take the real version - more tightly cropped I think.
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Rock Formations. Mission Peak. February 25, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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Clearing Clouds over Snowy Diablo Range. Almaden Quicksilver Park. February 18, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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Oak and New Grass. Calero Park. February 17, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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New York Times:

Records have continued to be broken steadily. But until last year, when a contemporary photograph by Richard Prince sold for $1.2 million at Christie’s, no single print had ever broken the six-figure barrier at auction. So when Sotheby’s announced this week that “The Pond ˜ Moonlight,” a platinum print by Edward Steichen owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had sold for almost $3 million to an anonymous buyer, it was as if continents had shifted in the photography world.

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Four Oaks in the Late Afternoon. Calero Park. February 2, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Since I haven’t posted anything for a few days I figured I had better post something. (Last weekend was not a great photography weekend, although it was a good hiking weekend.)
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Pacific Ocean. San Gregorio State Beach. February 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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Two Hikers. Mission Peak. January 28, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

The light was amazing as I topped out on the ridge to the southeast of Mission Peak last Sunday - fog was streaming across the newly green grass on the ridge. Just as I arrived two hikers passed by and it occurred to me that they might make a subject for a photo.

I thought I had the wrong lens on the camera and considered swapping it out for a telephoto, but there was no time as the hikers started across to the other side of the ridge and the light changed rapidly - so I grabbed the tripod and mounted the camera with the 17-40 zoom. I didn’t have time to fully secure the tripod so I sort of half hand held the camera on top of the tripod and clicked off a half dozen shots as they started to descend.

It wasn’t until this evening that I finally looked closely at these images, only to find that this one in particular has a simple, spare quality that I like. I’m not done with it yet - it might even end up as a monochrome image.
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