Home Page Pictures
I share some of my photographs on my De Anza College home page. Copies of these pictures are archived on this page. (Photographs are copyright G Dan Mitchell. You may link to this page but you may not use these photographs in any other way without advance permission from Dan Mitchell.)2"
I also post photography at several other web sites. (The following links are not in any way connected with De Anza College.)
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June 2, 2009

Brick and Glass Buildings, Evening. San Francisco, California. May 26, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
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March 29, 2009

Blue Dicks Flowers. Almaden Quicksilver Hills, California. March 28, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
March 3, 2009

Redwood Forest, Morning. Muir Woods National Monument, California. February 28, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
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February 17, 2009
 Lance Armstrong, 2009 Tour of California. Sacramento, California. February 14, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
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January 30. 2009

De Anza College Visual and Performing Arts Center, Dawn. Cupertino, California. January 29, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
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January 11, 2009

Last Light, Panther Beach. Pacific Ocean North of Santa Cruz, California. January 11, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
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December 12, 2008

Egret Alights, Whalers' Cove. Point Lobos State Reserve, California. November 30, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
November 16, 2008

Star Trails and Surf, Pacific Ocean. Pigeon Point, California. November 15, 2008 © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
November 10, 2008

Merced River Fall Color, El Capitan Meadow Bridge. Yosemite Valley, California. November 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
September 21, 2008
 Poison Oak Leaves, Last Day of Summer. Calero Hills, California. September 21, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Poison oak leaves on the last day of summer against a backgrouind of branches and early autumn colors - Calero Hills, California.
My last-day-of-summer morning hike at Calero Park began early and in cloudy weather - but the overcast saturated the colors on some of the early fall colors, including the leaves on this poison oak bush on a grassy hillside. Poison Oak Leaves, Last Day of Summer. Calero Hills, California. September 21, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Poison oak leaves on the last day of summer against a backgrouind of branches and early autumn colors - Calero Hills, California.
My last-day-of-summer morning hike at Calero Park began early and in cloudy weather - but the overcast saturated the colors on some of the early fall colors, including the leaves on this poison oak bush on a grassy hillside.
September 15, 2008
 Shoreline Trees and Reflections, Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Shoreline trees, grasses, and rocks catch the morning sunlight and are reflected in Fletcher Lake, Yosemite National Park, California.
This photograph is from near the outlet stream of Fletcher Lake, very close to the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. Early morning light is beginning to flow around the base of Fletcher Peak and strike the rocks and vegetation along the shoreline right below the peak. This is one of a series of photographs I made on this morning as I wandered around this lake in the early light.
July 28, 2008
 Bird Rocks, Sunset. Point Lobos State Reserve, California. December 30, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
July 22, 2008
SunsetFogBayBigSur20080721 Incoming Fog - Big Sur Coastline. Big Sur, California. July 21, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
July 17, 2008
 Pike Place Market Street Scene at Twilight with Rain. Seattle, Washington. January 3, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
June 18, 2008
 Evening at Safeco Field, Seattle. Seattle, Washington. June 13, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
June 8, 2008
 Outbound Freighter - San Francisco Bay. San Francisco, California. June 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
June 2, 2008
 Point Reyes Headlands. Point Reyes National Seashore, California. June 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved."
May 26, 2008
 Yosemite Valley Tunnel View. Yosemite National Park, California. April 27, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
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Spring 2009 Term
Spring 2009 classes begin in early April, and registration has already begun. Visit the De Anza College web site to find out more about admissions and registration. My spring schedule includes: Music 1A: Introduction to Music- MTWTh at 9:30-10:20 in A11
- MTWTh at 10:30-11:20 in A11
Music 51: Introduction to Electronic Music- MW at 12:30-2:10 in A91
- Friday-only at 10:30-1:50 in A91
Music 8: Intermediate Electronic MusicFor more information about courses I teach, visit the web sites for my Intro to Music and Electronic Music classes. Send me email if you have questions - see the Contact Info section lower in the sidebar. I posted an extremely important note about enrollment for the winter 2008 term - it still applies for the spring 2009 term. Please read it!
Recent Posts From My Other Sites
Music 1
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Final Spring 2009 Grades Posted. Test grades and final course grades are now posted at the Online Grades page in the sidebar. (The extra-credit number is indicated on the page showing test and report grades. Congratulations to those who did all three extra-credit events and earned an extra 1/3 of a letter grade in the course.)
Have a great summer!
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End of term notes - with more to come. Congratulations to those of you who have completed the final Music 1A
test and turned in all remaining work and extra credit. I have scored
and graded the tests and I hope to post the results along with your
final course grades during the next next 24 hours.
There is
one loose end to tie up still. A few students who appeared to be on
track to complete the course work did not show up to take the test this
week. I have emailed these students. If you are among them you must
contact me immediately to explain what happened. I must turn grades in
very soon and I cannot assign you a passing grade without that test.
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Dan Mitchell's spring 2009 final exam week schedule. As of Monday, this is my final exam week schedule - subject to change as the week continues of course.
Monday, June 22
9:30-10:20
| Music 1A regular class meeting including re-take of quiz 10. | | 10:30-11:30 | Music 1A regular class meeting including re-take of quiz 10. | | 11:30-12:30 | Office hour (may be in A91 for part of the time) | | 12:30-2:10 | Music 51 regular class meeting - including test #2. |
Tuesday, June 23
9:15-10:30
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exam session for the 9:30 MTWTh Music 1A class. Session starts at 9:15,
but you may arrive as late as 9:30. Tests will be collected at 10:30.
| Later
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hope to provide a couple hours of open lab for electronic music
students later in the morning or in the early afternoon. Watch the
electronic music web site for more information.
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Wednesday, June 24
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9:15-10:30
| Final exam
session for the 10:30 MTWTh Music 1A class. Session starts at 9:15, but
you may arrive as late as 9:30. Tests will be collected at 10:30.
| 11:30-1:30
| Final exam session for the MW Music 51: Intro to Electronic Music class. Final project playback
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Thursday, June 25
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All day
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have no final exams scheduled on Thursday, but I will likely be on
campus at least part of the day. Please email me if you want to make an
appointment ot meet.
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Friday, June 26
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9:15-10:30
| Final exam
session for the Friday-only Music 51: Introduction to Electronic Music class. Final project playback and test #2.
| 11:30-1:30
| Final exam session for the Music 8: Intermediate Electronic Music class. Final project playback
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Electronic Music
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Spring 2009 Grades Posted. I have calculated and posted spring 2009 grades for the Introduction to Electronic Music and the Intermediate Electronic Music classes. I heard quite a few very fine final projects this week - congratulations! I hope that I'll see some of you in my Intermediate class (Music 8) next year, and that many of you will consider other music classes. Email me if you have any questions about other music department offerings.
Have a great summer!
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Missing Projects? (This time, for real!). Unlike a message I posted here on a related topic earlier this week, this one is actually relevant - and possibly very important - for students taking electronic music classes this quarter.
We have now completed all three electronic music final exam sessions, at which we heard final projects for both Intro to Electronic Music classes and for the Intermediate Electronic Music class. There were a lot of fine projects, by the way!
However, several students who have been active in the electronic music classes did not show up to their finals, or make alternate arrangements - and this means they have submitted no final project. According to course green sheets, I must assign a failing grade if you don't complete a final project. So, if you have a project you need to contact me IMMEDIATELY - and by "immediately" I mean within the next hour or two following the posting and emailing of this message.
Dan Mitchell
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Last-minute lab time for Intermediate Electronic Music students. For those students in the intermediate class, you may be able to pick up a bit of final lab time during the 9:15-11:15 final exam session for the Intro class on Friday - but no guarantees.
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Quotes
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Bertrand Russell "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - G Dan Mitchell (gdanmitchell@gmail.com) |
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H. H. Williams "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." - G Dan Mitchell (gdanmitchell@gmail.com) |
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George Orwell "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - G Dan Mitchell (gdanmitchell@gmail.com) |
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| Source: The Quote File; Updated: 6/12/2009. |
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