G Dan Mitchell Photography

First Light, Red Rock Cliffs. Zion National Park, Utah. October 14, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. First morning light shines on plants along a red rock ridge at the base of a cliff-lined amphitheater in the Kolob Canyons area of Zion National Park This photograph was made in the [...]

Early Evening Forest Light. Yosemite Valley, California. May 3, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Yosemite Valley forest in early evening light. This is an “intimate landscape” photograph of an otherwise nondescript little scene that you could probably find repeated thousands of times in Yosemite and multiples of that throughout [...]

Dogwood Flowers, Sunset Light. Yosemite Valley, California. May 3, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. The flower-laden branches of a dogwood tree hang above the Merced River in sunset light In the evening we had pulled off the road near the place sometimes called “Gates of the Valley” (and occasionally [...]

Granite and Trees, Morning. Yosemite National Park, California. May 12, 2003. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Morning light on granite slabs in the Yosemite high country. These are the light, the rocks, the trees that bring me back to the Yosemite high country of the Sierra Nevada every year when [...]