G Dan Mitchell Photography

During the past year or two I had written the majority of an extensive guide to photographing in Death Valley National Park and some of the surrounding areas, and shared it at this web site. It was chock-full of the names of places and descriptions of how to get to them and specific suggestions regarding [...]

Horsetail Fall. Yosemite National Park, California. February 15, 2010. © Copyright 2010 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. * The silver strand of Horsetail Fall and water reflecting on surrounding cliffs in late afternoon light, Yosemite Valley. This being February, it seems that Horsetail Fall has again (and more every year) become a hot topic. [...]

Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of Ansel Adams. It hardly seems necessary to make the case for his impact on photography and photographers, and should it be necessary there are many others who are better equipped than I to make that case. But I can’t let the date go by without writing [...]

I thought that I would use today’s photograph (posted lower on the home page if that is where you are reading this) to again illustrate an observation or two about certain types of photographs. The photograph is a of a landscape scene in California’s Central Valley, photographed during in the evening during the winter migratory [...]

Today Nikon announced two new 36+MP full frame DSLRs, the D800 and D800E, and Canon announced a long-awaited update to their EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L zoom. I’ve posted a bit more information in a new entry on the Deals page. G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, [...]