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Photographs: Germany, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Heidelberg Zuckerladen

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Heidelberg Zuckerladen
People in front of a Heidelberg candy shop.

Heidelberg Zuckerladen. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

People in front of a Heidelberg candy shop.

Today we’re back in Heidelberg with a photograph from a visit about eight years ago. There’s a lot to draw tourists to Heidelberg and, in fact, the Altstadt has a jam-packed main street and the nearby castle attracts crowds. On crowded days it is still possible to escape the biggest hordes by moving a few blocks away, and that’s where I photographed this shop. (No, I never did get to go inside. Next time!)

I cannot quite articulate why I’m attracted to scenes like this one, with people spread across the full width of this impromptu stage. I’m fascinated by the arrangement of the people and also by the details the emerge when I look more closely: the interactions among the people in the group at the right, the person about to open the door to the shop, and face hidden behind the cyclist.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Soda Candy Luncheonette

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Soda Candy Luncheonette
Street scene in winter light on the Upper East Side, Manhattan

Soda Candy Luncheonette. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Street scene in winter light on the Upper East Side, Manhattan

Today’s photo takes us back to the urban world again, and away from the world of winter migratory birds that I have shared more recently. The photograph is from our weeklong visit to New York City between Christmas and (almost) New Year’s Day. It was a cold week! As we usually do, we went out and wandered Manhattan quite a bit — hard to do street photography without going into the street! Daytime highs made it (barely, and not always) into the low 20 degree range, but we fought back by layering up and by stopping frequently for refreshments in warm places. Not that the latter is a bad thing!

I made this photograph on one of those cold days. We had queued up to get into the Guggenheim, but the line wasn’t moving at all. Standing there in the bitter cold and strong wind, the thought of finding a place with warm soup suddenly occurred to us, and we left the line and found food. Feeling warmer now, we headed back out onto Lexington and walked south. When I first spotted this place, somewhat interesting in its own right though not quite unique as a structure, the words on the sign caught my attention: “Soda Candy Luncheonette.” Then I noticed the nice light coming up Lexington and the interesting arrangements of pedestrians as they walked past.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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