G Dan Mitchell Photography

Mono Lake, Thunderstorm. Mono Lake, California. July 23, 2007.© Copyright 2007 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Eastern Sierra Nevada thunderstorms build over Mono Lake, Mono Craters, and Lee Vining, California. Mono Lake can be an unforgiving place in which to try to make photographs during the day, but sometimes one gets lucky! It [...]

Purple Dawn, Mono Lake. Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. June 29, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Pastel shades of purple and blue just before dawn at Mono Lake. Back at the end of 2010 I wrote that I was going through all of my 2010 raw files to look for images [...]

Black Point and Negit Island, Mono Lake Shoreline. Mono Lake, California. October 10, 20120. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. The north shoreline of Mono Lake leads from foreground offshore tufa past the base of Black Point to Negit Island and beyond. You would never know it from this black and white [...]

I think I may have been there when the “alien life”* arrived at Mono Lake… ;-) * Just kidding, of course, but given the recent stories about “alien life” (or, more correctly, some very strange terrestrial life) this cloud came to mind. The original post is here. G Dan Mitchell Photography Flickr | Twitter | [...]

Abandoned Buildings, Eastern Sierra. Near Lee Vining, California. July 25, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Blood-red dawn light illuminates eastern Sierra Nevada peaks of Yosemite National Park and morning clouds above abandoned high desert cabins in the sage brush along highway 395. Many who travel the eastern Sierra on highway [...]