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Red Tulip, Green Grass

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Uploaded on May 28, 2012

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Morning Ships - San Francisco Bay

Freighter departing San Francisco Bay on a foggy morning is seen through the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge with the San Francisco skyline in the background. Black and white photograph. September 18, 2007.

Since today marks the 75th anniversary of the opening of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge, I thought that I would share one of my photographs of this iconic structure, along with a link to a photo essay on the bridge that I posted today: www.gdanmitchell.com/2012/05/27/photo-essay-golden-gate-b...

More of my Golden Gate Bridge photographs on Flickr.

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Uploaded on May 27, 2012

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Tree and Sandstone Cliff

A tree grows from a crack in the face of a redrock sandstone cliff, Zion National Park.

If this photograph looks familiar, it may be because it is! A few weeks back I posted another photograph of more or less the same subject but in landscape orientation rather than portrait orientation. There are, no doubt, many examples of interesting trees growing out of surprisingly small cracks in the faces of sandstone cliffs in Zion and other similar areas, but I spotted this one in the "Big Bend" area of Zion Canyon, where I had stopped to photograph some spring cottonwood trees along the Virgin River.

I love the juxtaposition of the rich greens of the tree with the reds and browns of the sandstone cliffs. In many ways, these are two of the main colors of this part of the Southwest - with the addition of the blue of the sky. That palette of green, red, and blue is everywhere. And there is actually a bit of the blue here, too. The interesting coloration of the dark areas of the rock seems to be partly the result of reflections of the blue light from the blue sky that was above and behind my camera position.

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Uploaded on May 26, 2012

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Aurora Bridge, Seattle

Tower and steel structures beneath the Aurora Bridge, Seattle, Washington.

In early May I was briefly in Seattle of personal business, and I found myself with a free couple of hours that coincided with a Seattle Photo Walk in the Fremont district - so I left my other business behind, grabbed camera and a couple primes, and headed to the meet-up at the statue of Lenin. Really - it is a long story. ;-)

For those who don't know, there is a waterfront along the edge of Fremont - the waterway connecting Lake Washington to the Puget Sound by way of the Ballard Locks. North of the water is a more hilly area, and Aurora Avenue crosses from there heading south over the water by way of the Aurora Bridge, which stands high above the water and above Fremont. Almost as soon as I started my "photo walk" in Fremont, I knew that I wanted to wander on over towards the bridge to see what I could find. It turns out that there is a recreational trail that passes alongside and under the bridge, so I walked down that way and made a series of handheld photographs from underneath this impressive structure.

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Uploaded on May 26, 2012

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Sandstone Towers, Evening Sky

Evening clouds above sandstone towers and desert terrain, Arches National Park.

I think I can manage to coax one more photograph out of my collection of shots from my first evening in Arches National Park back in early April. To recap the story, we checked into a motel in Moab in the middle of the afternoon, and then had enough time to make a late afternoon and evening foray into Arches. We ended up in the "Windows" area just before sunset and ended our day shooting here as the sun set and then on into the evening.

I didn't get anything of particular note that included the arches for which this spot is known - for example the North and South Windows. (I did photograph the South Window, but by this time the light wasn't quite what I was looking for.) The wind was very strong, so I ended up behind some of the main rocky formations looking for shelter, and this provided a fairly clear view to the east just after the sun set. In this direction there was a small cluster of red sandstone formations, and as the evening sky begin to clear just a bit and the post-sunset cast a glow over the sky and the land beneath I made a few photographs in this beautiful soft light.

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Uploaded on May 25, 2012

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