G Dan Mitchell Photography

Eureka Dunes and Last Chance Range, Morning. Death Valley National Park, California. January 6, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Morning light on the Eureka Dunes and the hills of the Last Chance Range, Death Valley National Park. While I love – who doesn’t? – the golden hour light on [...]

Migratory Birds, Ponds, Pre-Dawn Light. Central Valley, California. January 28, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Large flocks of migratory birds stand in ponds and take to the sky in predawn light. I almost didn’t stop to photograph these birds and this scene. I had just driven close to two [...]

Death Valley Buttes, Morning. Death Valley National Park, California. January 3, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Early morning light on the summit of the Death Valley Buttes, with the Panamint Range in the distance, Death Valley National Park, California. I found several things in this scene that I often [...]

Levee, Fog, and Sandhill Cranes. Central Valley, California. January 28, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. A row of sandhill cranes pass above a levee on a foggy winter morning, Central Valley of California. This is yet another photograph in which my landscape photographer brain perhaps took over from my [...]

Tree and Bird-Filled Morning Sky. Central Valley, California. January 28, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Giant flocks of migratory birds fill the winter sky above the Central Valley of California. There are times when the number of migratory birds visible in California’ Central Valley approaches the level of unbelievable. [...]