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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 5h

From the archive...
Consonance and Dissonance” — Structural elements along the High Line Park, Manhattan.

The title references musical concepts of the terms — creating tension or stasis.

#structure #consonance #disonance #urban #architecture #streetphotography #photography #Manhattan #nyc

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 5h

That's great, Beth. I'm hoping to be there near the beginning of the month, too.

G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 12h

That helps. There are two places “locally“ (liberally defined) where I can find fog. One is, as you mention, on hills where those low clouds become fog… and where there are trees! The other is a 2 hour drive into a location with regular tule fog (and birds!) in the winter.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 13h

It is a strange — and universal — feeling to recognize how much time has passed, and how its passage has changed each of us.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 13h

These photographs by Damian Ward make me wish I lived in a place with even more fog! (I’m in the SF Bay Area, though our fog is often more of the “low coastal clouds” type.)

Damian Ward @damianward.bsky.social · 20h

It's nice to see the misty mornings coming back to me, the last few days have been great.

Here is an image from a few weeks ago, as I haven't looked at my recent images.

#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
#woodland

A black and white image of a misty woodland scene.

© Damian Ward 2025.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 13h

My favorite time to photograph Yosemite Valley is when there is snow on the ground. (Beth Young photograph.)

Second favorite? Possibly when the dogwoods and maples change to autumn colors.

Beth Young @optimalfocus.bsky.social · 13h

During a winter storm last season, #Yosemite Valley was shrouded in #fog and precipitation, hiding many iconic peaks, creating an opportunity to focus on smaller scenes, like this scene of sugar pines and Sierra granite boulders dusted with #snow. Hopeful for more conditions like this in the West!

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 13h

From one of the (several) other photographers in my family.

I’ve photographed Skagit Valley a few times, and especially enjoyed it when the trumpeter swans were there.

Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 1d

I traveled up to the Skagit flats in WA this afternoon. Too early for the snow geese and the swans, and fall colors haven't really kicked in yet, but it was a beautiful day! (Mt. Baker is the snow covered peak in the photo on the right.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 14h

Thanks to all 4,900 of my followers. (Just passed that threshold today.) Now on to 5000? :-)

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 14h

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… for a stroll along the base of a nearby rocky hill where it was still shady.

G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 14h

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… groves on mountainsides as the sun came up. Photography in quickly-changing early morning light can be intense, and ideal conditions only last for a short time. As the sun rose the light soon become too intense for the photographs I was interested in, so I went…

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 14h

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“Aspen Leaves, Morning Frost” — Fallen aspen leaves covered in morning frost, Eastern Sierra Nevada.

I had been photographing long views of colorful aspen…continues: gdanmitchell.com/2025/10/14/a...

#aspens #fall #autumn #color #foliage #sierranevada #nature #landscapephotography #photography

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 16h

Aspen Leaves, Morning Frost

"Aspen Leaves, Morning Frost" — Fallen aspen leaves covered in morning frost, Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Aspen Leaves, Morning Frost

"Aspen Leaves, Morning Frost" — Fallen aspen leaves covered in morning frost, Eastern Sierra Nevada.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

I get a kick from watching the follower count increment and approach a new threshold. Almost at 4.9K… which is almost at 5K. Hey, I’m grateful for followers — thanks!

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

So true!

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

Thanks Christoph. This is a sort of image that appeals to me, minimal and suggestive on one level, though literal on another.

(On the other hand, such images can be a hard sell with many viewers...)

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

Thanks, Mike.

G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

From the archive:
"Je Suis Bleu: Bicycle Man" — A man rides past a wall covered with street art, Le Marais.

An ephemeral photograph — the street art and man on a bicycle are long gone from this scene

#streetphotography #streetart #paris #lemarais #france #europe #travel #photography #bicycle

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

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… you find things like this solitary orange-toned rock sitting on a bed of entirely different material.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

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… Nevada. I can’t understand the details of all of these stories (I’m not a geologist!) but I understand some of the themes. One is the constant wearing down and eroding of the highest peaks, a process that eventually transports rocks far from their source. And when this happens…

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

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“One Rock” — A solitary orange-tinted rock on a bed of blue and gray rock.

Rocks tell stories in the high country of the Sierra…continues: gdanmitchell.com/2025/10/13/o...

#sierranevada #rock #stone #nature #wilderness #landscape #landscapephotography #photography

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

Gary Nylander landscape photograph.

Gary Nylander 🇨🇦 @gary-nylander.bsky.social · 2d

Rock Isle Lake viewpoint (No. 679), Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. September 2025. Photograph© by Gary Nylander. www.garynylander.com #landscapephotography #artphotography #canada #artist #photography #EastCoastKin #G+Circle #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ClassicMono #smArtist

Rock Isle Lake can be seen to the left. I made this photograph from a viewing platform at the Sunshine Meadows area of Banff National Park. I took a gondola up the Sunshine Village and hiked from there. The photo was taken with a Nikon and a 300mm lens.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

Patricia Emerson Mitchell photo.

Patricia Emerson Mitchell @pattyplanet.bsky.social · 2d

Daily Flora

'C. M. Wilson' Camellia japonica, 3.4.25
patriciaemersonmitchell.com/2025/10/12/d...

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 1d

One Rock

"One Rock" — A solitary orange-tinted rock on a bed of blue and gray rock.

One Rock

"One Rock" — A solitary orange-tinted rock on a bed of blue and gray rock.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 2d

Normal people stay away from that location when the tule fog arrives, but that’s my cue to go there! I love photographing in foggy conditions.

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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 2d

From the archive:

“Sandhill Cranes, Tule Fog” — A flock of lesser sandhill cranes in a wetland pond on a foggy winter morning.

Someone said it is national migratory bird day of some such thing, so here is a photograph of some of my favorite birds.

#birds #fog #wildlife #nature #photography.

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