Looking Down. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Street patterns observed while using a crosswalk.
The sight of me making this photograph might have raised a few eyebrows, made a few observers wonder… though, in truth, I tried to make it in a sneaky fashion. The basic idea was that the conjunction of colors, textures, and shapes caught my eye as I was entering a crosswalk in downtown San Francisco at a rather crowded time of day… so I pointed my camera straight down and made an exposure.
I’m naturally attracted to patterns and shapes and juxtapositions, so I see things like this everywhere, at least when I have my visual senses engaged. To be sure, more of my street photographs include people, but these urban colors and patterns have a place in it as well.
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 Amazon.
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