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Winter Reeds | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

December 26, 2020

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Winter Reeds | G Dan Mitchell Photography Early winter wetland reeds transition from green to yellow to brown.Winter Reeds. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Early winter wetland reeds transition from green to yellow to brown.These reed thickets grow in all sorts of wetland areas in my “neck of the woods” — in and around ponds, along creeks, and so forth — forming a sort of living landscape that changes continuously throughout the year from season to season.…

Autumn Aspen Leaves Cluster | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 23, 2020

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Autumn Aspen Leaves Cluster | G Dan Mitchell Photography A cluster of Eastern Sierra Nevada aspen leaves in full autumn color.Autumn Aspen Leaves Cluster. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A cluster of Eastern Sierra Nevada aspen leaves in full autumn color.Here is is — finally — the photograph that should be the final one from this year’s autumn aspen color in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Like several of the others, I made this one while wandering about…

Aspen Leaves and Branches | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 20, 2020

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Aspen Leaves and Branches | G Dan Mitchell Photography A cluster of colorful autumn leaves on the branches of an Eastern Sierra aspen tree.Aspen Leaves and Branches. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A cluster of colorful autumn leaves on the branches of an Eastern Sierra aspen tree.The fall color countdown continues with this (likely) second-to-last aspen color photograph from this year’s crop. To recap, this was a very strange year for California autumn aspen photography, with…

Twin Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 17, 2020

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Twin Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography Two autumn aspen leaves in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.Twin Leaves. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Two autumn aspen leaves in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.Continuing the countdown to the end of this year’s batch of Eastern Sierra fall aspen color, here is another vertical format close-up of a pair of beautiful leaves, photographed in the soft light of a colorful grove still in the morning shadows of a nearby ridge.…

Backlit Aspen Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 16, 2020

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Backlit Aspen Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography Eastern Sierra autumn aspen leaves against a splash of background color.Backlit Aspen Leaves. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Eastern Sierra autumn aspen leaves against a splash of background color.At this point I now appear to be down to just four more of my 2020 autumn aspen color photographs from the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and all of them are up-close photographs of just a few leaves like this one.…

Yellow and Orange | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 14, 2020

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Yellow and Orange | G Dan Mitchell Photography A river of orange and yellow autumn aspen trees flows down to the shoreline of a Sierra Nevada lake.Yellow and Orange. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A river of orange and yellow autumn aspen trees flows down to the shoreline of a Sierra Nevada lake.This will be (I’m virtually certain!) the final photograph of the larger landscape of 2020 from this Eastern Sierra Nevada location in the Inyo…

Shoreline Aspens, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 12, 2020

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Shoreline Aspens, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography Colorful autumn aspen trees line the shore of an Eastern Sierra lake reflecting high peaks in morning light.Shoreline Aspens, Autumn. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Colorful autumn aspen trees line the shore of an Eastern Sierra lake reflecting high peaks in morning light.As I worked my way through what is actually a rather small collection of aspen color photographs I made this season I kept thinking that I…

Aspen Leaves, Near and Far – Fine Art Photography Article

November 11, 2020

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Aspen Leaves, Near and Far A group of autumn aspen leaves against a background of aspen forest, Eastern Sierra Nevada.Aspen Leaves, Near and Far. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A group of autumn aspen leaves against a background of aspen forest, Eastern Sierra Nevada.At some point during almost every aspen season I end up looking away from the big views and getting up close to the colorful leaves. I can think of several reasons that I…

Autumn Aspens, Lake, Wildfire Smoke – Fine Art Photography Article

November 10, 2020

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Autumn Aspens, Lake, Wildfire Smoke Wildfire smoke drifts over the Sierra Nevada crest above a lake surrounded by autumn aspensAutumn Aspens, Lake, Wildfire Smoke. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Wildfire smoke drifts over the Sierra Nevada crest above a lake surrounded by autumn aspensThis is one of several photographs I made of this Eastern Sierra lake near the peak of autumn color this fall. I photographed it from two perspectives, both of which I had decided…

Tall Aspens, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 5, 2020

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Tall Aspens, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography A grove of tall aspen trees with autumn foliage in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.Tall Aspens, Autumn. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A grove of tall aspen trees with autumn foliage in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.Before I posted this photograph I shared another one that focused on a grove of small, slender aspen trees. In the accompanying text I pointed out that such groves tend to be typical of…

Golden Aspen Forest, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 4, 2020

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Golden Aspen Forest, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography A dense forest of golden Sierra Nevada autumn aspen trees.Golden Aspen Forest, Autumn. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A dense forest of golden Sierra Nevada autumn aspen trees.After sharing a bunch of very colorful red and orange aspen leaf photographs recently, someone asked me about those colors, wondering if they were a stage in the color development that led to the yellow/gold leaves with which this person…

The Last Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 3, 2020

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The Last Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography A few sparse leaves in a high elevation grove of slender aspens in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.The Last Leaves. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A few sparse leaves in a high elevation grove of slender aspens in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.For some reason this little grove and I have a long-standing relationship. Quite a few years ago I noticed it while exploring a slightly less-visited spot in an…

Aspen Slope | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

November 1, 2020

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Aspen Slope | G Dan Mitchell Photography Autumn aspens descend from a ridge to the shore of an Eastern Sierra Nevada subalpine lake.Aspen Slope. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Autumn aspens descend from a ridge to the shore of an Eastern Sierra Nevada subalpine lake.This spot is probably familiar to you, especially if you use the version of the Mac OS that used a different photograph of the feature as its branding. This aspen forest or…

Autumn Aspens, Eastern Sierra Lake – Fine Art Photography Article

October 31, 2020

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Autumn Aspens, Eastern Sierra Lake Faint wildfire smoke and fall aspen color around an Eastern Sierra Nevada lake.Autumn Aspens, Eastern Sierra Lake. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Faint wildfire smoke and fall aspen color around an Eastern Sierra Nevada lake.Along the same lines as another photograph I recently wrote about, this one is an alternate framing of a scene that I previously shared in a landscape mode photograph. (For folks unfamiliar with this terminology, “portrait” mode…

Autumn Aspens, Hillside Grove | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

October 30, 2020

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Autumn Aspens, Hillside Grove | G Dan Mitchell Photography A grove of autumn aspens ascends an Eastern Sierra hillside.Autumn Aspens, Hillside Grove. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A grove of autumn aspens ascends an Eastern Sierra hillside.If you we thinking that I’d be finished with this year’s fall color photographs by now… well, you’d be mistaken! And this won’t be the last one either. To review, it was a strange color season for me in the…

Aspen Branch and Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

October 26, 2020

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Aspen Branch and Leaves | G Dan Mitchell Photography An aspen branch bearing leaves at the peak of autumn color, Eastern Sierra Nevada.Aspen Branch and Leaves. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.An aspen branch bearing leaves at the peak of autumn color, Eastern Sierra Nevada.This is another photograph made during a brief “up close and personal” ramble through an aspen grove that was absolutely full of the widest range of aspen color I have seen — the…

Aspen Leaves, Autumn Color | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

October 23, 2020

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Aspen Leaves, Autumn Color | G Dan Mitchell Photography Eastern Sierra Nevada aspen leaves at their peak of fall color.Aspen Leaves, Autumn Color. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Eastern Sierra Nevada aspen leaves at their peak of fall color.Most of the time I tend to treat aspen trees as part of the larger landscape, perhaps with a grove or a few trees as the subject, or even including some trees of a larger scene. But every…

Autumn Aspens, Brush, and Talus – Fine Art Photography Article

October 22, 2020

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Autumn Aspens, Brush, and Talus A row of colorful autumn aspen trees standing between alpine willows and talus, Eastern Sierra Nevada.Autumn Aspens, Brush, and Talus. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.A row of colorful autumn aspen trees standing between alpine willows and talus, Eastern Sierra Nevada.These trees grow in an area widely regarded as iconic for fall color photography in the Sierra Nevada, though if they appear in the usual photographs at all they are perhaps…

Aspen Cascade | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

October 20, 2020

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Aspen Cascade | G Dan Mitchell Photography Autumn aspen trees spill down a small valley in the Eastern Sierran Nevada.Aspen Cascade. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Autumn aspen trees spill down a small valley in the Eastern Sierran Nevada.There is no escaping the fact that this is an iconic Eastern Sierra fall color subject. Heck, even Apple used it for one of their operating systems! It was a bit of a surprise to me that I…

Red and Yellow Aspen Leaves – Fine Art Photography Article

October 19, 2020

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Red and Yellow Aspen Leaves Autumn aspen leaves in yellow and red, Eastern Sierra Nevada.Red and Yellow Aspen Leaves. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Autumn aspen leaves in yellow and red, Eastern Sierra Nevada.Although it is hard to quantify such things, this Eastern Sierra fall color season seemed to produce better colors than I have seen in some time. Overall the colors were good, but two characteristics stood out. In many years I see a significant…

Shoreline Aspens, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography – Fine Art Photography Article

October 18, 2020

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Shoreline Aspens, Autumn | G Dan Mitchell Photography Colorful autumn aspen trees line the shoreline of a Sierra Nevada lake.Shoreline Aspens, Autumn. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Colorful autumn aspen trees line the shoreline of a Sierra Nevada lake.Near the beginning of the second week of October I had the opportunity to travel to the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The plan was to travel solo, camp in some fairly deserted campgrounds, largely keep my distance from other…

Autumn Lake, Dawn, Eastern Sierra – Fine Art Photography Article

October 16, 2020

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Autumn Lake, Dawn, Eastern Sierra Dawn light comes to an Eastern Sierra Nevada lake surrounded by autumn aspen trees and reflecting distant peaks.Autumn Lake, Dawn, Eastern Sierra. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Dawn light comes to an Eastern Sierra Nevada lake surrounded by autumn aspen trees and reflecting distant peaks.Yes, this is a bit of an iconic spot, but with good reason. And this year the colors around this Eastern Sierra Nevada lake were exceptional. I…

Red Rock and Autumn Color – Fine Art Photography Article

September 14, 2020

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Red Rock and Autumn Color Early autumn color at the base of Zion Naitonal Park cliffs.Red Rock and Autumn Color. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.Early autumn color at the base of Zion Naitonal Park cliffs.Back in Autumn of 2012 I had an unusual opportunity to spend a total of roughly a month photographing in the red rock country of Southern Utah. I was there early in the month for a couple weeks, and I returned…