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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Dock Structures, Red Crane

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Dock Structures, Red Crane - A red crane among extensive dock structures at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
A red crane among extensive dock structures at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

Dock Structures, Red Crane. New York, New York. August 19, 2011. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A red crane among extensive dock structures at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

I recently posted a photograph of a slightly different view of this subject in black and white, but I couldn’t give up the color of the red construction crane peeking over the wooden structure in the upper section of the scene. This is the extensive wooden construction around the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, photographed from one of the boats as it left on its run back to Manhattan. The photograph prompts me to wonder about at least one thing: Does someone actually walk that precarious plank extending over the water in the lower part of the frame!?

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer 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

Dock Facilities, Staten Island Ferry

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Dock Facilities, Staten Island Ferry - Pilings, piers, and other docking facilities for the Staten Island Ferry
Pilings, piers, and other docking facilities for the Staten Island Ferry

Dock Facilities, Staten Island Ferry. New York, New York. August 19, 2011. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Pilings, piers, and other docking facilities for the Staten Island Ferry.

This is another of my Staten Island Ferry photographs from last summer. Although it may be a bit hard to see in this small jpg, I was impressed by the extensive wooden structures at the Staten Island end of the route at the ferry terminal. Pilings are placed about as close together as possible, and in densely packed rows. Beyond them, a walkway and wooden fence rises, and beyond that more similar structures. In front of all of that are several very dilapidated looking wooden structures that seem to me falling apart and almost useless… for whatever it is that they were designed for.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer 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: Textures, Photographs: Urban/Street

Detail, Staten Island Ferry

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Detail, Staten Island Ferry - Detail of Staten Island Ferry as it approaches the dock.
Detail of Staten Island Ferry as it approaches the dock.

Detail, Staten Island Ferry. New York, New York. August 19, 2011. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Detail of Staten Island Ferry as it approaches the dock.

I’m afraid that there isn’t a lot to write about this photograph. It is an orange fence. On a boat! I was wandering around on the Staten Island Ferry looking for subjects other than the New York skyline here I photographed the railing as the vessel was very close to the terminal at the Staten Island end of the run.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer 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: Nature, Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Mendocino Coast, Evening

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Mendocino Coast, Evening - Evening light on coastal bluffs below the village of Mendocino, California.
Evening light on coastal bluffs below the village of Mendocino, California.

Mendocino Coast, Evening. Mendocino, California. August 28, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Evening light on coastal bluffs below the village of Mendocino, California.

The little village of Mendocino, now largely a somewhat rural vacation spot, has a lot going for it: connections to a number of historical traditions, lots of quaint old buildings with that weathered look of coastal communities, tons of places to stay, great food, and California’ Pacific Ocean coastline. Though the chamber of commerce might disagree, it seems to be just far enough from major population centers to escape the over-running crowds and rampant souvenir-ism of places like Carmel that once had this same sort of charm. The village sits on a wide peninsula that just out into the Pacific and gradually angles down toward the water, ending in relatively low coastal bluffs and shoreline rocks.

It is often foggy in the part of California, but on our late-August visit we had just enough fog to add a bit of atmosphere – but mostly it hovered off-shore and at times disappeared completely. On our final evening there, we had a bit of time before dinner – and who wants to eat when there is golden hour light! – so we walked out along the bluffs on the south side of town and made a few photographs as the day ended.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer 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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Text, photographs, and other media are © Copyright G Dan Mitchell (or others when indicated) and are not in the public domain and may not be used on websites, blogs, or in other media without advance permission from G Dan Mitchell.