G Dan Mitchell Photography

Morning Virga, Mono Lake. Mono Lake, California. July 25, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Isolated Mono Lake tufa towers stand in the morning light below clouds dropping morning virga. Early in the morning, Mono Lake is often a very still and quiet place and the sense of empty space and [...]

Morning Squall, South Tufa. Mono Lake, California. © Copyright 2010 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. The shoreline of Mono Lake as a morning squall drops rain over the Sierra Crest near Lee Vining, California. This photograph is, in a number of ways, a sort of happy accident. I had been camped in the [...]

Virga Above Mono Lake, Dawn. Mono Lake, California. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Black and white photograph of dawn virga above mountains ringing Mono Lake. Before dawn clouds formed by tropical moisture streaming up from the south had formed to the east of the Mono Basin and virga (rain that doesn’t [...]

Volcanic Ridge, First Light. Mono County, California. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Dawn light illuminates the Jeffrey pine covered ridge of a volcanic dome in the Mono Craters complex, California. I have a favorite personal spot where I often stop on my way to photograph at South Tufa at Mono Lake. [...]

South Tufa, Morning. Mono Lake, California. June 7, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Black and white photograph of early morning at South Tufa, Mono Lake, California. This black and white panorama was photographed on my early June, 2009 visit to the South Tufa area of Mono Lake. Earlier that morning I [...]