G Dan Mitchell | Photography

Thanks.

My recollection is that it was along the east side of lower Central Park. But I can see your point!

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… the cloud deck was thicker than expected, and instead of sunrise colors I had something more like morning blue hour light.

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… I often have ideas about what my subject will be and even how it may look. On this morning I was thinking of colorful dawn light, perhaps illuminating some early morning clouds, and the first direct light striking the peaks of the distant Panamint Range mountains. Instead,…

Lake Manly, clouds

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“Blue Hour Sky, Lake Manly” — Cloud-filled blue hour morning sky above Lake Manly.

When I go out to photograph…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/06/b...

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From the archive: "Manhattan Food Cart" — A couple of people ordering after dark at a Manhattan food cart. (gdanmitchell.com/2020/01/09/m...)

#Manhattan #nyc #streetphotography #nightphotography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #streetPhotography #photographyLovers #fineArtPhotography

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… with developing fall color, growing in the cracks of a sandstone cliff.

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…and found” photograph, again from a decade-ago visit to Utah and, in this case, Zion National Park. (“Lost and found” photographs disappeared into my raw file archives, only to be rediscovered years later.) This one features a bit of vegetation, including some…

Trees growing on sandstone cliff

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”Trees on Sandstone Cliff ” — Trees grow in cracks in a sandstone cliff.

Today I am sharing yet another “lost …more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/05/t...

#zion #southwest #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography

Motion and color. What’s not to like in this Art Wolfe @artwolfe.bsky.social photograph?

Fascinating series of train photographs by Gary Nylander.

Franka M. Gabler has been sharing a string of these Yosemite Valley winter photographs recently.

There were tons of wildflowers and new plants in Death Valley during our recent visit. @pattyplanet.bsky.social (Patty Emerson Mitchell) photograph.

“Thank you” to Albert Ibars (‪@albert-ibars.bsky.social‬) and Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images (@jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social‬) for re-sharing this post.

Work in Progress — I usually have a bunch of photographs "in the pipeline" at any given moment. Here are the files currently open on my computer — a lot of Death Valley images, some winter wildlife, a set of Utah photos, and still one travel image.

#workinprogress

From the archive: “Lake, Rocks, and Clouds” — Evening clouds reflected in a Sierra Nevada alpine lake. (gdanmitchell.com/2015/05/26/l...)

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Thanks. I love those narrow streets and night.

Thanks for letting me know that. The post it links to was deleted shortly after posting, and it will appear “for real” in a few days.

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… in California’s Central Valley. But once again and all too soon, we approach the end of this season. Orchards are blooming and temperatures are rising, and in a week or two the migratory geese will be on their way north again. The thick tule fogs will give way to the clearer skies of spring

Winter plants and fog

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“Winter Plants, Fog, and Bird” — A bird perches in wetland plants on foggy winter morning.

Winter is a time of fog & migratory birds…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/04/w...

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Winter Plants, fog, and Bird

"Winter Plants, fog, and Bird" — A solitary bird perches in wetland plants on foggy winter morning.

From the archive: “Porto Street, Night” — Two men walk down a narrow Porto street at night. (gdanmitchell.com/2023/09/20/p...)

#night #porto #portugal #travel #nightphotography #photo #photography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #streetPhotography #photographyLovers #fineArtPhotography

Thank you!

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… found them. But there were lots of other flowers, too, including these tiny specimens.

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… following our late-February visit to Death Valley, the main stories this time were wildflowers and Lake Manly. This post is about the former. We went to the place where I photographed these desert star (or Mojave star) flowers looking for sand verbena and desert gold, and we definitely…

Desert star flowers

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“Desert Star Flowers” — Death Valley NP.

As I mentioned yesterday in the first post…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/03/d...

#wildflowers #deathvalley #photo #photography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography

Desert Star Flowers

"Desert Star Flowers" — Tiny desert star (monoptilon bellioides) flowers, Death Valley.

marjo79.bsky.social and @rhonda44.bsky.socia — thanks for sharing!

Thx.

Thanks, Ronald.