This Site is Inactive…
I completed my post-retirement teaching in 2022 after retiring five years earlier. I have left some old teaching materials on this website for reference, but they are no longer updated. From time to time I may share information about some post-retirement activities. (Updated: 7/21/22)
February 2022 Update
I haven’t updated this site for a while, so I’m checking in briefly on this fine February day with a few bits of news.
I am not teaching during the current winter term. At the moment I also do not plan to teach during the upcoming spring 2022 term. It feels like time to let others take over!
I have had some opportunities to begin traveling again recently, though our world still isn’t back to normal. Remember “normal,” anyone? I did recently photographed in Death Valley National Park, a favorite long-time subject of mine. I’ve included one of the photographs below along with a “contact sheet” of a couple of dozen other new photographs. You can find out more about my photography work at my photography website.
2021 Winter Term
The 2021 winter term draws to a close, and this website will mostly be on hiatus. “Thank you” to students who took my Music Appreciation and Introduction to Electronic Music classes this quarter, and best wishes as you continue along your education/career path.
Birdscapes
As the winter quarter at De Anza College concludes, watch for this website to switch back to more general subjects, and not just class information. Let’s start with this one…
“Birdscapes,” a collaborative show featuring recent photographs by photographers G Dan Mitchell and David Hoffman opened earlier this winter at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, on the southern boundary of Yosemite National Park. The show was recently extended to run through the final week of March.
A Yosemite Group Exhibit
I have a show going on through June at Gallery 5 in Oakhurst, California, on the Yosemite National Park boundary: “Transitions: Winter to Spring — Photographs From Yosemite Renaissance Artist-in-Residence G Dan Mitchell and Friends.” The show runs through the end June, and features photographs from my Winter/Spring 2018 Yosemite Renaissance artist-in-residency in the park, along with the work of a diverse group of fellow landscape photographers and friends who have been working in the park this winter and spring to document the seasonal transition: Jerry Bosworth, Franka Mlikota Gabler, Charlotte Hamilton Gibb, David Hoffman, Vidya Kane, and Kerby Smith.
Update: Early February 2018
I have been selected to be a Yosemite Renaissance artist-in-residence during the second half February 2018. I will photograph and take part in related activities in Yosemite National Park during that period.
Update: Late December 2017
I spent the final week of 2017 in New York City, surviving ridiculously cold conditions — at least from the perspective of this Californian! — and making many photographs of the city in the winter light.
Update: Late October 2017 (part 2)
Near the end of October I joined my Studio Nocturne SF colleagues to present a night photography Artspan 2017 Open Studio in San Francisco. It was a very successful event, and we donated several thousand dollars from the proceeds to support North Bay Wildfire relief efforts.
Update: Late October 2017 (part one)
In late October I was in the Yosemite area for the opening of a gallery show, and I took the opportunity to spend a few days in and around the park. This scene of wildfire smoke settling among forest trees in early light came from that visit.
Update: Early October 2017
During September and October I photographed a number of subjects in a variety of locations, many focusing on the autumn season. In early October I visited many places in the eastern Sierra to photograph (mostly) fall color.