G Dan Mitchell Photography

Redwood Creek, Late Winter. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Golden light reflects on the muddy winter flow of Redwood Creek as it flows over boulders and new late-winter growth. Even in this dry year in Northern California, there is finally water running in the [...]

Trillium Plant and Flower. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. March 3, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. A trillium plant blooms during late winter in the redwood forest at Muir Woods National Monument. I somehow missed the trillium bloom in the Northern California redwood forests last year, so this [...]

Trillium Plants, Redwood Forest. Muir Woods National Monument, California. March 21, 2009. © Copyright 2009 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Trillium plants beneath the redwood forest canopy at Muir Woods National Monument. This is another of the previously overlooked photographs from a few years back, this time from Muir Woods National Monument in [...]

Trail Junction, Redwood Forest and Ferns. Muir Woods National Monument, California. March 8, 2009. © Copyright 2009 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. A bed of ferns grows at a trail junction under deep redwood forest cover at Muir Woods National Monument. This photograph was made in the late winter of 2009, during that [...]

Forest, Gazos Creek. Gazos Creek Road, California. July 12, 2011. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. A dense mixed redwood and big leaf maple forest along Gazos Creek, California. Today I used the excuse of driving my son over the hill to UC-Santa Cruz for his summer school class to get [...]