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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Austria, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Windows and Stucco Walls

December 12, 2013 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Tall stucco buildings with almost uniform white-framed windows line a narrow Salzburg, Austria street

Yes, another photograph of windows and walls along narrow back-streets in Salzburg Austria… In the late afternoon, the sun had dropped low enough that no direct light was making its way down into the canyons of these narrow streets except where the streets were pointing directly toward the sun. These buildings were a long a section where the street curved – the streets here are apparently so old that they do not follow the geometric logic of more modern cities. Along the curve the fronts of building are, obviously, going to be at slight angles to one another. Here, that bit of non-linearity, plus the converging perspective lines from the upward-pointing camera position, seemed to create a sort of off-kilter effect.

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: England, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Brick Walls and Windows

November 19, 2013 G Dan Mitchell 2 Comments

Brick walls and windows along a London street, late afternoon

There is probably not a whole lot to write about this photograph. As we walked some London streets that were not quite as filled with tourists, I looked up this side street and saw the beautiful series of brick walls, with all sorts of interesting interruptions of the basic form: windows, an indented darker area housing windows, conduit and a lamp, etc. Between the darker bricks further along the wall and the shadow near the camera position, there was a brighter band of sunlit bricks.

Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Three San Francisco Street Photographs – Late October, 2013

November 17, 2013 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Street scene at the corner of 17th and Bryant, San Francisco

This simple – or maybe not so simple – street scene was photographed at a somewhat busy corner in San Francisco, where a woman was about to cross the street with her dog, a van and a delivery truck were about to enter the intersection, a building reflected morning light, and masses of electric bus cables ran overhead.

A painted-over red zone curb, San Francisco.

I’m not quite certain where this photograph came from, aside from the recollection that I made it as I walked down Bryant Street.

A man checks his phone as he waits on a corner in front of a blue shop.

The man on the corner, engrossed by his smartphone and oblivious to his surroundings was my initial interest in the scene. Then I noticed the prevalence of blue tones and the interesting and strange, if you look at it the right way, window display of lampshades and a few other things.

Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape

November 16, 2013 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Two pedestrians in blue shirts walk past architecture emphasizing vertical and horizontal lines

A photograph like this is a bit hard to explain, but I’ll try. At least a little bit. As is often the case, for some reason this structure – a parking lot – caught my attention. I like the texture of concrete when doing city photography, and this landscape of lines seemed a bit striking, and in fact it got me thinking again about the very linear nature of much of the urban environment. Aside from a few things – the green tree, the red card, and the people – essentially everything in this scene can be regarded as being a sum of horizontals and verticals, from the obvious vertical covering of the garage to the wires, to the street lanes and lane lines, to the sidewalk, and the rows of squares on the background building.

It occurs to me from time to time that there is something very unnatural about this, and it might even be a cause of the disconnect from the environment that can occur in such places. But as (pretty much) always, the constructed world is not perfectly linear. But still, to me, the two people walking along the sidewalk, whose blue attire also caught my attention, look very small and very passive relative to the constructed world they inhabit.

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Category Archives: Photographs: Structures and Objects

Windows and Stucco Walls

Brick Walls and Windows

Three San Francisco Street Photographs – Late October, 2013

Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape

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