Green Stems, Green Stems. © Copyright 2022.G Dan Mitchell. …

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Green Stems. © Copyright 2022.G Dan Mitchell. Green stems of new bulbs crowd together. Recently I read a review of the work of painter Richard Diebenkorn, whose work I have admired for years. The reviewer was commenting on the relationship between the depiction of real landscapes and seeing these subjects as something else entirely. He commented that, more or less, the paintings of real subjects aspired to abstraction. That’s and idea that I can relate to — and I know that I’m certainly not the only photographer who thinks this way. I made this photograph during a morning foray to a Bay Area garden, where we had gone primary to see the first “spring” blooms. (Technically, it was still late winter, but it sure felt like spring that day.) The flowers were beautiful and impressive, but my attention wanders, and I end up photographing a lot of other things, too. These stems caught my attention with their color and form, especially in the softer light in the shade of some trees. So I crouched down (very!) low and photographed in such a way that the stems but not the flowers would be in the photograph. 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, , and directly from G Dan Mitchell.