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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Walking Man With Child

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Walking Man With Child
Walking Man With Child

Walking Man With Child. New York City. August 5, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A man carrying a child walks along a Manhattan street

Beyond the most general location — “Manhattan” — I’m not certain at the moment where I made this photograph, though there is a good chance that it was in Manhattan between roughly NYU and Grand Central Station. It seems, to me, to be emblematic of New York City in many ways, and the incongruity of an individual man carrying a child while walking through the area caught my attention. To be honest, the two of them were a lucky stroke. I”m pretty certain that I had first noticed that scene and thought to photograph it as a sort of urban landscape, but that as I was framing my shots the man and child happened to walk into the scene.

In retrospect, there now seems to me to be something almost poignant in the image of the man cradling the small child in his arms as he walks past and through what appears to be a very run down urban landscape. (The truth is probably a bit less dramatic, as you can find bits and pieces of real estate that look like this in many parts of the city, from what I’ve seen.) I think that it also helps that we is caught in a bit of soft but directed light reflected into the scene from surrounding buildings. I find the details of the graffiti and related stuff on the walls to be interesting, too. Of course, to the extent that I “saw” these things at the time, it had to be largely an instinctive matter, since there is rarely enough time to carefully consider all of these things when on the street and when the subject is walking into and out of the frame!

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Person, Stairs, Wall, Windows

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Person, Stairs, Wall, Windows
Person, Stairs, Wall, Windows

Person, Stairs, Wall, Windows. New York City. December 29, 2013. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A person ascends stairs inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

On this day, halfway through our late-December week in New York City, we finally had some bad weather. Not as bad as the snowstorms that shut down the city a week or so later, but enough cold rain that walking around Manhattan was starting to seem a lot less appealing than it had been the day before. We decided that the weather would make it a good day for indoor activities, so we got on the subway and headed up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art… where we joined what seemed like about half of New York City in using the Museum as a rainy day activity!

If you have been there, you know that this museum is huge – far too big to see the whole thing in a day. We’ve gone a number of times, each time poking into new areas that we had not seen before and visiting a few familiar areas. This time we visited some galleries displaying photography and finally ended up way in the back of the facility in a section of newer architecture. This seemed like an odd spot to me. What here looks like the exterior windows of a building, with a sidewalk in front, is actually inside the museum. If I recall correctly, it is in an area where new and old architecture meet.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Walkway, Manhattan Bridge

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Walkway, Manhattan Bridge
Walkway, Manhattan Bridge

Walkway, Manhattan Bridge. New York City. December 27, 2013. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A nearly empty walkway on the Manhattan Bridge

New York City’s Manhattan Bridge is not the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is a popular tourist destination and full of pedestrians and cyclists in nice weather, and even sees quite a crowd in conditions that are less appealing. We began this day’s visit to Brooklyn by walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. It was cold – in the twenties, if I recall correctly, but there were still hundreds of other people taking this walk and enjoying the expansive views from the walkway, which is high on the bridge and above the vehicle traffic.

We returned via the Manhattan Bridge… which is most definitely not the Brooklyn Bridge. The first hint was that we were told to expect the thunderous sound of passing subway trains every couple of minutes – they travel above ground to cross this bridge. Once on the bridge, it is clear that no one expects a lot of foot traffic here – and there is not much. Instead of a beautiful walkway, high above traffic and with views in all directions, this walkway is narrow and cramped and bounded by metal walls and cyclone fences. You can’t really see any view to the north of the bridge, and the view to the south is blocked by the fence. In many places there is a lot of graffiti. This is not the Brooklyn Bridge – but I recommend this walk, too.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Garbage Man Gate

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Garbage Man Gate
Garbage Man Gate

Garbage Man Gate. Brooklyn, New York. December 27, 2013. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Sheet metal fence, roll-up door, trash, and hand-written message to the garbage man, Brooklyn

“Please close and lock this gage. Garbage man”

I know this will baffle a few readers… but there you go. I’m tempted to offer little explanation and let you make of it what you will. This small vignette comes from a semi-industrial area beneath a bridge in a section of Brooklyn, New York. Is that cryptic enough? ;-)

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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