Leaves and Red Metal Door. Seattle, Washington. May 5, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Leaves grow against a red metal roll-up door in the Fremont District of Seattle, Washington.
In early May I was in the Seattle area of three days on non-photographic business, and fairly busy with those other affairs for much of time that I was there. However, when I happened to mention online that I was in that area, someone let me know that there was going to be a “Seattle Photowalk” the next evening. The plan was to meet in the Fremont area (“under the statue of Lenin” – it’s a long story…) and then wander about for the next four hours, ending up at the Gas Works Park at sunset. I couldn’t pry open a full four hours in my schedule, but I did manage to find one hour, so I made plans to meet the group.
I arrived at the appointed starting time and place and found a small group of photographers ready to go. After the obligatory group photo (indeed, beneath the statue of Lenin!) we split up and began to photograph. I think that I may have been in Fremont once before, perhaps a dozen or more years ago, since the general area seemed a bit familiar, but as far as photography went I had no specific ideas at all about what I would find. The area does have an interesting “worn” quality – at least the parts that aren’t trendy new corporate buildings – so I figured that I could probably find something. And having only one hour to photograph an area I’d not scouted, I knew that I’d better get to work! It only took me a few minutes – and this is typically true – to get into the “seeing” mode and start to find potential subjects. Shooting mostly with just a 50mm prime I wandered up side streets, alleys, and a few driveways, looking for odd bits of shape and color. This branch was growing across the sliding metal door on a small eating establishment that was apparently closed for the day.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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