Category Archives: Photographs: Urban/Street

Photographs: England, Photographs: Urban/Street

Break Time, Savoy Hill

December 8, 2013 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Hotel workers taking a cigarette break in the alley, Savoy Hill, City of Westminster, London

Very near this little alley is a large and famous hotel. We come up to this spot from the back way, so we did not see the typical hustle and bustle of the hotel entrance, instead just looking up a very nearly deserted side street to see a few employees on break, apparently having a smoke, We walked into this area and discovered a beautiful church hidden away on a corner to the right and out of the frame. After stopping to visit there, we continued our wandering and soon crossed in front of the hotel where these folks apparently work.

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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: Urban/Street

Break Time, Savoy Hill

Brick Walls and Windows

Three San Francisco Street Photographs – Late October, 2013

Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape

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