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

Alley, Mare Island

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Alley, Mare Island. Mare Island Naval Ship Yard, Vallejo, California. May 30, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Artificial light illuminates an alley and an old industrial building at historic Mare Island Naval Ship Yard, Vallejo, California.

On the second-to-last night of May I had a chance to do a bit more night photography at Mare Island Naval Ship Yard after Ivan Makarov contacted me to say that he was organizing a small group for a visit. We gathered before sunset near the “historic core” area of the island, and before long we all headed off to photograph the diverse and interesting subjects found here.

Having shot the “classics” at Mare Island many, many times I decided to start out with a different subject. Instead of heading for the old brick buildings and the immense ship yard structures, before it became dark I headed into a park like area where old cement bunkers sit among trees. By the time I finished there and walked back to where I had last seen the group… they were all gone! I went ahead and shot alone for the next hour and a half or so, mostly looking for detail shots of smaller subjects. Near the end of my shoot I happened to walk past this alley and decided to make one more exposure before packing up and heading home.

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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM at 45mm
ISO 400, f/16, 20 seconds

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

Painted Brick Walls

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Painted Brick Walls
Painted Brick Walls

Painted Brick Walls. San Francisco, California. March 6, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Green and pink painted brick walls in San Francisco, California.

Several things catch my eye about this little scene: the contrast between the sharply defined monochromatic green bricks on the left and the wildly pink and badly painted bricks on the right, the old light fixture with its small shadow, the almost completely black line in the middle of the image where the two buildings don’t quite meet, the sliver of blue sky near the top of this shadowed area, and the very stark and harsh light.

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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
ISO 200, f/11, 1/400 second

keywords: san francisco, california, usa, north america, travel, urban, downtown, city, street, brick, wall, pattern, structure, architecture, light, lamp, pink, green paint, geometric, shadow, tenderloin, stock

Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Person Looking at Window Display

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Person Looking at Window Display
Person Looking at Window Display

Person Looking at Window Display. San Francisco, California. March 6, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Photograph of a person looking at mannequins in a store display window along a San Francisco street.

I posted a black and white version of this photograph a week or so ago, but I wasn’t quite able to give up the crazy colors in the display window of this store… so here is the color version.

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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
ISO 200, f/11, 1/320 second

keywords: person, man, sidewalk, stand, walk, street, urban, city, downtown, mannequin, figure, show, window, display, red, satin, purple, white, sweatshirt, look, gaze, bacca da silva, story, bright, sun, light, brick, wall, san francisco, california, usa, north america, sign, shadow, stock

Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Person Looking at Window Display

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Person Looking at Window Display
Person Looking at Window Display

Person Looking at Window Display. San Francisco, California. March 6, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Black and white photograph of a person looking at mannequins in a store display window along a San Francisco street.

I saw this starkly-lit scene while walking not far from Union Square in downtown San Francisco in early March. The difference between the body position and posture of the person standing in the foreground and the highly stylized and quite unreal figures in the display case caught my attention. (I’m still going back and forth between this black and white version and the color rendition which shows the wild colors of the mannequins – the middle one wears shiny red pants and seems to have a blood stain on “his” shirt!) I also liked the somewhat skewed angles and perspective from the wall of the building and the descending sidewalk to the right, broken up a bit by shadows from a bicycle and a pole.

For those who might wonder, there is still a bit more urban and street photography in the queue before my more familiar landscape photography returns.

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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
ISO 200, f/11, 1/320 second

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