Category Archives: Photographs: Structures and Objects

City Hall Wall

CityHallWall2005|11|19: Wall in Sunlight. San Jose City Hall. November 19, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Wall. San Jose City Hall. November 19, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Another handheld shot from my walk past the new city hall buildings in San Jose yesterday. I thought about doing this as a black and white image, but I like the very faint coloration of the curving wall and the slightly more saturated color of the concrete at the bottom.
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City Hall Stairs

CityHallStairs2005|11|19: Stairs. San Jose City Hall. November 19, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Stairs. San Jose City Hall. November 19, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I was wandering around downtown San Jose today, trying out my new 17-40mm Canon L lens. This is a handheld shot at the new City Hall.
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Stairs at the Getty Museum

GettyStairs2004|06|20: Stairs. Getty Museum. June 20, 2004. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Stairs. Getty Museum. June 20, 2004. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I like Southern California’s Getty Museum almost more for the architecture than for the collection – and the collection is pretty good.

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Kaiser Center Building

KaiserBuildingVerticalBW2005|08|07: Kaiser Center Building. Oakland, California. August 7, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Kaiser Center Building Detail. Oakland, California. August 7, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I was intrigued by the angles and the reflections of this building, made more abstract by perspective “correction” in Photoshop.

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