Photographs: United Kingdom, Photographs: Urban/Street

Balthazar, London

January 11, 2017 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Street scene, bakery, bar, and red car

Here is another photograph in what I sometimes refer to at the “this-will-perplex-fans-of-my-landscape-photography” category. :-) The scene is a busy London street, photographed during a visit last August as we walked though this area. (If memory serves, we may have been on our way to a concert.)

In general, I’m not a fan of photographs that require too much explanation. That being said, I acknowledge that some photographs do require this… so here is a bit of explanation. You could look at this simply as a visual record of a place in the city. In fact, there is a bit of that here, since part of what got my attention was the red “Balthazar” awning above the bakery across the street, and my wonder at the use of the same name for a popular bakery in Manhattan. You can also try looking at the photograph simply as an image constructed of a limited range of colors (one in particular!) and forms, some of which may reveal surprises if you look closely. Anyway, that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it.

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Photographs: Structures and Objects

Broom Handle

January 10, 2017 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Broom handle leaning against walls meeting in a corner.

Yup. A broom handle. Leaning in a corner between two walls with interesting texture, and lit by soft light. It is one of those little things I see sometimes and just have to photograph.

We were visiting an art fair in Laguna Beach on this Thanksgiving Holiday. Often I just wander in such places with no particular goal and certainly not with photography in mind. But I had a small camera with me, and there it was… ;-)

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

The Valley, Dusk Fog and Clouds

January 9, 2017 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Dusk clouds and fog fill Yosemite Valley on an autumn evening.

This is, no doubt, a recognizable photograph of a recognizable place! Yes, Yosemite Valley, photographed from Tunnel View. And, yes, I shared another photograph from this same iconic (and over-photographed, perhaps?) location a few days ago. With that in mind, I’ll keep the explanation relatively short.

I was leaving the Valley after concluding the day’s photography and, as I often do, I briefly stopped at this spot. Initially I didn’t take my camera out, but after taking a look I thought the dusk light on the clouds and fog was interesting, so I went back to my car and grabbed camera, a lens, and tripod and went back to make a few photographs. Surprisingly, even though there had been a crowd of photographers lined up tripod-to-tripod earlier, almost all of them had left before this beautiful evening scene unfolded!

Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Wildlife

Great Blue Heron in Flight

January 8, 2017 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A great blue heron flies above San Joaquin Valley wetlands

This photograph may tend more toward “clinical” than toward “evocative,” but I was happy to have a chance to photograph such a bird this closely as it flew past. The great blue heron is the largest bird that I typically get to photograph in the San Joaquin Valley wetlands where that I visit so often in the late fall and winter.

This bird is not exactly rare, though it is less plentiful than the white egrets that we often see near wetlands. The heron usually is seen alone, often in areas similar to those that attract the egrets, though also perhaps a bit more likely to be in dry fields. Most of the time they stand relatively still and they don’t show obvious signs of being upset or annoyed by the presence of humans… unless you get too close. The boundary between “that’s OK” and “that’s too close” is hard to determine, except that if you cross it the great bird quickly takes to the air and flies away from you.

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