Being a San Francisco Bay Area resident, I’m aware of the work of Chronicle/SFGate photographer Frederic Larson, especially his “Mystical Photography” photoblog that features daily photographs from around the Bay. (He does get around the Bay Area, and often before the rest of us are even up in the morning!)
But I just have to wonder about today’s image and its title. That’s all I’ll say. Well, except for, “groan….”
Steve at Upper Hamilton Lake. Sequoia National Park, California. August 5, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserve
Steve wades into Upper Hamilton Lake below Kaweah Gap – High Sierra Trail, Sequoia National Park, California.
Upper Hamilton Lake was our goal on the second night of our August 2008 9-day trans-Sierra backpack trip from Crescent Meadow in Sequoia National Park to Whitney Portal. This beautiful (and popular) lake is set in a deep bowl below Kaweah Gap, the pass across the Great Western Divide that we would cross the next morning.
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High Elevation Forest Near Crabtree Meadow. Sequoia National Park, California. August 10, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Black and white photograph of morning light in a high elevation forest between Wallace Creek and Crabtree Meadow on the John Muir Trail, Sequoia National Park, California.
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Windsurfing at Sunset. Near Davenport, California. March 8, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A windsurfer heads out into winter Pacific Ocean surf at sunset – near Davenport, California.
This is another in a series of photographs of windsurfers I made one afternoon/evening near the end of winter earlier this year.
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