Column, Person with Bag – Palace of Fine Arts. San Francisco, California. July 15, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Hands. San Francisco, California. July 18, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

This is a bit of a different photograph for me. Earlier this week I was invited to a performance of the San Francisco Symphony – actually my wife (oboeinsight) was among a group of bloggers invited to attend, and I got to tag along and bring a camera.

I tend to minimize the amount of gear I carry when shooting in urban environments, but this time I was truly minimalist. I took my Canon 5D with only a 50mm f/1.4 prime – partly because I didn’t want to be lugging around a bunch of photo gear at the symphony, and partly because I could carry this stuff inconspicuously in a very small bag. To be honest, it was actually fun to shoot with a single prime lens.

Oh, another fun thing about this shot… The person is an anonymous Bay Area arts blogger. So I guess I could lead with something like “Blogger’s Identity Revealed – See the Photo!”

But I won’t.