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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: France, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Sortie de Garage

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Sortie de Garage
Garage, doors, windows, and wall along a narrow Paris street.

Sortie de Garage. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.

Garage, doors, windows, and wall along a narrow Paris street.

I am hopeful that you’ll indulge my recent and continuing thread of photographs from one small area of Paris, photographs made on a single walk about a half-dozen years ago. A return to one photograph from this day led me to reconsider a bunch of photographs that I had almost forgotten, and I’ve been enjoying this “virtual trip” back to that day in Paris.

I understand that a traditional notion of street photography is that it focuses on catching people doing what they do “in the streets” of an urban area. My idea of street photography is a bit broader, encompassing not just human activity, but also architecture and the overall urban landscape. I’m fascinated by doors and windows and walls, and there are always little unexpected details to see. In this photograph, one of them is the small sign that provided the title. Another is the contrast between the simple, square forms on the main building and the elaborate decoration on the visible bit of the building to the left.

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Photographs: Netherlands, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

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Garage, Amsterdam

Garage. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Garage, Amsterdam

With some photographs I find it hard to explain what provoked me to stop and make and exposure, or even why I like it. Since not everything can be explained — though I may try! — I’ll share them anyway on many occasions. This is one of those images. We were walking quickly through a section of Amsterdam with very narrow streets when we passed this closed garage. At that moment I had the camera out and was photographing quite a bit… and this became one of the subjects.

There is something about the clean and simple patterns of the door, the stark contrast between very dark and very light tones, and the very simple sign above the door. In a world where such a business would more often have signage including a more lengthy and complex business name, plus descriptive text and probably things like phone numbers… this one simply states, “GARAGE.”

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Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Crouching Man in Orange

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Crouching Man in Orange
A street scene in San Francisco with a crouching man wearing orange

Crouching Man in Orange. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A street scene in San Francisco with a crouching man wearing orange

Today we take a little break from nature photography and head to San Francisco, one of my favorite places to do street photography. I suppose one reason it is a favorite is that it is so close — typically I hop on a train very early in the morning to arrive there around dawn (or a bit later this time of year) and then set out on foot to explore. It is also a favorite because, well, it is San Francisco. What a place — even with recent changes and overcrowding. The City borders to San Francisco Bay, it is full of diverse and interesting neighborhoods, and the people range from locals to out-of-town visitors.

This photograph is bound to seem a bit strange to those of you have stuck with me through a few weeks of redwood forest photography — what happened and what’s going on here?! I don’t want to explain too much — partly because a photograph can often reveal whatever it has to say on its own, partly because I don’t want to clutter it up with too many words, and partly because you can discover some stuff about it on your own if you choose to. Color is one clue…

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape

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Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape
Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape

Blue Shirt Pedestrians, Linear Landscape. Seattle, Washington. August 14, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

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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