G Dan Mitchell Photography

Dogwood Branch, Whirlpool. Yosemite National Park, California. May 3, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. A gentle whirlpool on the surface of the Merced River behind a hanging dogwood branch with spring blossoms I have photographed dogwood blossoms quite a few times before, but I had never quite gotten around [...]

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 [...]

Evening Forest, Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. May 4, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Early evening light filters through forest, Yosemite Valley, California. I’m probably not alone in loving the early evening forest light, as the sun’s light filters horizontally between the trees just prior to dropping below [...]