G Dan Mitchell Photography

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 [...]

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. [...]

Birds, Brush, and Setting Sun. Merced National Wildlife Refuge, California. January 28, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Sun sets over Merced National Wildlife Refuge, silhouetting brush and birds. I’m not usually one to shoot straight into the rising or setting sun, but here you are… straight into the setting [...]

Migratory Birds, Dusk. Merced National Wildlife Refuge, California. January 28, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Flocks of migratory birds fly over the Merced National Wildlife Refuge at dusk, San Joaquin Valley, California. I think that I’m as interested in the landscape of the Central Valley of California as I [...]