Jim Goldstein offers a brief post about relationships between urban and natural landscapes:

Forest & River of Light – Sometimes the parallels between the city and nature sneak up on you. Only after seeing my film did the movement and energy of the city prompt me to think of a stream running through the trees. [JMG-Galleries]

Follow the links back to his post and the photograph he uses as an example.

I am often very aware of the parallels between photographing wild landscapes and urban landscapes, and part of me approaches both from a similar perspective.

Bay Bridge and Fence. San Francisco, California. July 17, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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I very much enjoy Flak Photo, and I subscribe to their feed so that I can see the many interesting and creative images that they post. However, I’m perplexed by the June 7 post… Is there something I’m missing about this image?
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I very much enjoy Flak Photo, and I subscribe to their feed so that I can see the many interesting and creative images that they post. However, I’m perplexed by the June 7 post… Is there something I’m missing about this image?
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On Tuesday night this week I joined a group of photographers under the sponsorship of The Nocturnes for a visit to the Point Bonita Lighthouse at the end of the Marin Headlands along the California coast just outside San Francisco Bay. The excuse, as always with the Nocturnes, was to make photographs under a full moon.

It didn’t quite work out that way.

Not surprisingly to those who know the San Francisco area, it turned out to be quite foggy. And cold. And windy. Fortunately, I sort of enjoy “interesting” weather like that, and the walk across several footbridges to the lighthouse and back in dark and near dark conditions, with a strong wind blowing and the surf crashing below, was a special experience.

However, for me at least, the photographic results were less than stunning. I’ll post a few images here soon, but I came away feeling that I hadn’t really captured that “one image” that I try to take away from any project like this – several interesting ones, but nothing all that striking.

But that is OK. I think I’m learning to take a longer view when this happens. Each time I shoot a new subject like this, I learn something (sometimes several somethings) new about the subject itself, how to shoot in different conditions, and so forth. While all of that may not have resulted in any stunning photographs this time, I think the knowledge and experience will likely pay off in the future.
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