“Wetland Plants” — Slender plants growing in a quiet wetland pond.

This is another “adapt and try something else” photograph from my early December visit to California wetlands — a visit originally intended to focus on migratory birds and tule fog, neither of which turned up in abundance when I arrived. So I looked for alternatives that didn’t require birds and which still worked under a thick, gray overcast. The result was a series of photographs of wetlands plants…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/12/17/wetland-plants/

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Wetland Plants

"Wetland Plants" — Slender plants growing in a quiet wetland pond.

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La Despensa de Palacio

"La Despensa de Palacio" cafes y chocolates shop, Sevilla. This subject came from another Sevilla "random walk" that took us out of the historic center near the huge cathedral, through narrow and curving streets, and eventually to areas where the locals seem to hang out and there were far fewer tourists like us. (We ended up in the area with the large installation that I understand some refer to as the mushroom — an immense overhead wooden structure.)

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La Despensa de Palacio

"La Despensa de Palacio" — "La Despensa de Palacio" cafes y chocolates shop, Sevilla.

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“Autumn Hillside” — A Utah hillside with autum color from aspens and brush.

The range of colors in this photograph reminds me a little bit — but only a little bit — of the widely diverse autumn colors of New England forests. It is a bit subtler, with lots of softer tones, ranging from the marginal coloration of some of the green plants to the ghostly quality of the leafless brush in the foreground…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/12/16/autumn-hillside/

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Autumn Hillside

"Autumn Hillside" — Aspens and other autumn foliage on a Utah hillside.

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“Dormant Wetlands Plants” — Dormant and dried wetlands plants reflected in the still water of a quiet pond.

My first “real” visit of the season to my favorite migratory bird photography location did not go as planned. (Actually, I did stop briefly a month ago and a half earlier, but things were still slow back then.) I was hoping for luminous tule fog and lots of geese and sandhill cranes. Instead I got thick gray elevated overcast and fewer birds than expected. Ah, well, it happens… and when it does I look for something else to photograph…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/12/15/dormant-wetlands-plants/

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Dormant Wetlands Plants

"Dormant Wetlands Plants" — Dormant and dried wetlands plants reflected in athe still water of a quiet wetland poind.

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The Wrigley Building

"The Wrigley Building" — The Wrigley Building in Chicago.

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“Desert Branches” — Branches with sparse foliage, Red Rock Canyon State Park.

This was most definitely not the subject I was looking for at this place. We were on the long drive back to California after a few weeks of photography in Utah when we decided to make a quick stop at the Red Rock Canyon State Park in Southern California. The main visual target there was to be the fantastically eroded formations — that last we would see that felt like the Southwest as we headed home…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/12/14/desert-branches/

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