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Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Fancy Wheat Field Bakery Inc

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Fancy Wheat Field Bakery Inc
A bakery delivery truck parked in San Francisco

Fancy Wheat Field Bakery Inc. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A bakery delivery truck parked in San Francisco

This photograph takes a step away from the recent images from the natural world of the Sierra Nevada. Hey, I don’t just photograph rocks, water, and trees! (Don’t worry — more Sierra photographs are on their way.) The location is on the loose boundary between North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco, and at neighborhood intersections like this you can often see a wonderfully wild mixture of visual and other cues.

There is so much that caught my attention about this truck — a truck that you could easily just ignore. How about the name of the baking company? “Fancy Wheat Field Bakery.” Is the bakery fancy, or is it the wheat field? And the graphical elements on the side of the truck are exuberant — while colors, bold shapes, little negative space. And further signifying the cultural richness of this part of San Francisco, behind the truck we see a Chinese salon and “Capo’s” Italian Dinners.

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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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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodles

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Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodles
Man in vest and helmet emerges from Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodles, Inc.

Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodles. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Man in vest and helmet emerges from Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodles, Inc.

This is another quite street photography photograph made in Manhattan, almost certainly along the edges of its Chinatown district. On the scale from instant and intuitive to slow and methodical, this photograph fits in the former category. I think I recall stopping for no longer than a few seconds to photograph this place, and timing a couple of the exposures to include this fellow coming out through the door. Once he was out of the picture my interest waned and we moved on.

Of course the name of the business caught my attention — not just “Noodles” or that word plus someone’s name, but “Tasty, hand-pulled noodles, Inc.”, and on a shop that wasn’t, well, very pretentious. The fellow coming out the door was wearing one of those bright orange reflective vests and a bicycle helmet. I saw no bicycle nearby, but perhaps he was a messenger. Not clear from the photograph, unless you notice how much clothing he is wearing, is that he was apparently out on a bicycle on a day when the temperature barely reached twenty degrees and the wind was blowing strongly.

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

New Louie’s Inc, Evening

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New Louie's Inc, Evening
Evening scene as markets close in San Francisco

New Louie’s Inc, Evening. San Francisco, California. July 27, 2015. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Evening scene as markets close in San Francisco

This photograph comes from another evening spent doing street photography in the late afternoon and on into the night in downtown San Francisco. The plan was to meet up with a small group of like-minded photographers who like urban subjects and the magic of the city at night. The other arrived before I did, and we finally caught up with one another on a street in a non-tourist area of the Chinatown district of San Francisco.

This street has fascinated me for a long time. Most often I’ve passed through in the morning, when produce trucks line the streets, and the sidewalks are crowded with people doing their shopping. At those times I often feel like a bit of an outsider, interjecting myself into a community that is not my own, but I’m attracted to many things about it and I return frequently. On this evening visit the neighborhood had a very different feeling. There were far fewer people out and about, and the shops that are so busy in the morning were now closing down one by one. Tables of merchandise were cleared and put away, sidewalks swept, shutters rolled down, and one by one the shops closed. Now, without the crowd of people, a different visual quality appeared, with the primary elements being the colors of the shops, signs and awnings, and the shapes of and relationships among the scattered tables, bins, and shelves.

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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