G Dan Mitchell | Photography

Birds, Bridge Cables - San Francisco. San Francisco, California. September 18, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I was already set up to shoot photographs of the Golden Gate (in this wonderful, luminous, hazy morning light) when I spotted this flock of seabirds flying across the Bay.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.29.2008 :: Photographs: San Francisco :: No Comments »

Two Bridges, Morning Fog - San Francisco Bay. San Francisco, California. September 18, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Photographed from above the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge on an end-of-summer morning as the sun broke through the bay fog.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.28.2008 :: Photographs: San Francisco :: No Comments »

After a spate of updates and upgrades to my site software over the past day or two, a few rough edges remain. One of this involves the Gallery site, or at least the version of it that displays when you click on images shown on this page and elsewhere on this site.

I hope to work to fix this cosmetic issue soon. Everything works and you can see all of the image in the gallery - it just looks really ugly!

G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.27.2008 :: Site News :: No Comments »

Lower Young Lake Shoreline, Dusk. Yosemite National Park, California. September 10, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I spent several days in the Young Lakes area of the Yosemite Sierra Nevada back-country on a solo pack trip late last year. Although Young Lakes are very popular during the summer season and can be reached by a one-day roundtrip hike, this I was alone at the lake on a quiet evening following an afternoon of rainy weather.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.27.2008 :: Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite :: No Comments »

In the Final Turns, San Jose - 2008 Amgen Tour of California. San Jose, California. February 20, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Peloton winds through the final turns near the finish of the Modesto to San Jose stage of the 2008 Amgen Tour of California bike race.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.26.2008 :: Photographs: Sports :: No Comments »

Fabian Cancellara, Prologue Time Trial - 2008 Amgen Tour of California Prolog. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. February 17, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Stage winner Fabian Cancellara near the end of the prologue time trial at the 2008 Amgen Tour of California bicycle race in Palo Alto, California

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.25.2008 :: Photographs: Sports :: No Comments »

Mario Cipollini, Prologue Time Trial - 2008 Amgen Tour of California. Palo Alto, California. February 17, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Mario Cipollini tops a rise followed by camera motorcycle and his support vehicle in the prologue time trial of the 2008 Amgen Tour of California bicycle race.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.24.2008 :: Photographs: Sports :: No Comments »

I have updated my Sharpness and Aperture Selection of Full-Frame DSLRs post to include the corner crops from the same photos used for the center crops that were already there. Here’s the image I added - see the link for full information.

G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.23.2008 :: Equipment, Tests :: No Comments »

SFGate reviews the Friedlander show currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

We accept an image such as “Nashville, Tennessee” (1971) as an instantaneous document of social reality because everyone in it - maybe even Friedlander himself behind the lens - appears taken by surprise. And because it appears to make no assertion about what it records, unless we care about the importance ascribed to highly coiffed hair at a certain American place and time.

But look at a recent picture, such as “New York City” (2002) in the Fraenkel Gallery’s concurrent Friedlander show, “America by Car,” and you realize immediately that his camera has constructed a moment of layered, colliding optical perspectives that the eye unaided could never assemble, let alone fix.

We might see “Friedlander,” the retrospective, as tracking a career-long disproof of any presumed equivalence between seeing the world and seeing the world as photographed. Yet Friedlander works as if he has no ideological stake in this truth, merely a fascination with it, a fascination continually reawakened as different subjects come before his camera.

Thru May 18…

G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.23.2008 :: Photographers, Shows :: No Comments »

Peloton Rounding a Corner, San Jose - 2008 Amgen Tour of California. San Jose, California. February 20, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Feb.23.2008 :: Photographs: Sports :: No Comments »