Sierra Silhouette, Wetlands Winter Sunrise

            Intensely colorful winter sunrise light above a Central VAlley wetlands pond and the distant outline of the Sierra Nevada.

On a recent early morning visit to the Central Valley I was lucky to run into a couple of friends who were also there to see the wintry landscape and photograph migratory birds. We conversed casually uring slow moments when we found ourselves in the same spots. One of them noted that a lot of my recent photograph s have relied on pastels. True! I’ve been focusing those colors recently, and they are common in the winter landscape. This is not one of those photographs.

Indeed, these colors are almost lurid. I photographed just. before the sun came up, when the pre-dawn light is at its most saturated. I used a long lens to focus on the brightly lit clouds and their reflection, and to eliminate much of the surrounding darker landscape. Wild displays of color like this — and sky filled with migratory birds — are among the reasons that I’m willing to get up at “oh-dark-thirty” and drive for hours in the darkness. s.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

Taken on: February 16, 2024

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Camera: Fujifilm X-T5, f/5.6, 1/420 sec, 128.3mm (=192mm), ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T5
Lens:	XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/420)
Focal Length:	128.3mm (35mm equivalent: 192mm)
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	-0.67 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 25.4 (Macintosh)
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