Tag Archives: people

Photographs: Italy, Photographs: Urban/Street

Local People, Radda

December 23, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Local People, Rodda — Local people form an impromptu tableau in the town of Radda, Italy

Local people form an impromptu tableau in the town of Radda, Italy

It was our last day in the hills of the Chianti region of Italy, and for reasons I cannot recall at the moment we made one final visit to the small, hilltop village of Radda, situated in the wine and olive growing region between Florence and Siena.

We arrived early — which makes sense, in retrospect, because later we had to drive to Florence, where we would stay for the next few days before flying back to the US. The town, which can be quite busy at times, was rather quiet, and some of the small streets were almost deserted. The sun was low enough still that the narrow streets were still in shade. I walked up steps to the front of the town church, looked down, and made this photograph of an interesting collection of people standing near some steps.

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Photographs: Italy, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Carousel, Night

December 20, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

People sit on benches to watch a nighttime carousel in Florence, Italy

After a week in the mountain and vineyard country between Florence and Siena, we returned to Florence for a few days before catching our flight back to the US. This was our first visit — aside from passing through to pick up a rental car on the day we arrived — and we only wished that we had left more time to explore this city, especially the old central city along the Arno River, with its narrow and curving streets and its many museums.

The weather is very warm here in August, and lots of people are out on the streets in the evening. We joined the thongs each evening and went out to late dinner and then wandered. On this evening we wandered up from the Ponte Vecchio into town and passed a small square where there was a brightly lit carousel.

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Photographs: England, Photographs: People, Photographs: Urban/Street

Colchester Billiards & Snooker Club

December 18, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A few people stand outside the Colchester Billiards and Snooker Club along a narrow curving street

During our lengthy travels (five weeks on the road!) this past summer we spent a bit more than a week in London. While most of our plans were in London, we decided to get out into the country at least once on this trip. So, more or less on a whim, we decided to take the train to the town of Colchester after reading a brief entry about it on some website or similar. (In some ways we are fans of injecting a bit of randomness into our trip planning — we often discover interesting things that way.)

Colchester is a smallish town at more or less the end of a spur railroad line. It obviously attracts a certain number of tourists, perhaps day trippers from London, since it has a number of shops and places to eat and so forth. It also has a few historic structures including a castle (of course!) and a very old church. On the other hand, it also features some mundane things — we saw a lot of hearing aid shops! Up this narrow, curving street I spotted an interesting spot of color in the green building, along with a few people populating the tables in front of the local Billiards and Snooker Club.

Photographs: Southern California, Photographs: Urban/Street

It Doesn’t Help And No One Cares

December 10, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

This is, obviously, not “the usual” around here, but it seemed worth sharing. We were visiting a sort of art fair during a Thanksgiving visit to Southern California. At first I just looked at the arts and crafts, but having a camera in my hand I, of course, started to look at other things and to look at the event in different ways than most people who attend holiday fairs.

I could probably write an essay about this little photograph, but I’ll keep it short. At this mostly happy event, there was, once I looked more closely, a surprising undercurrent of lonely looking people. The man sitting on the bench in the spot of sunlight, hands in front between his legs and head falling to the side, was certainly not the only one. However, the juxtaposition of this person with another man wearing a shirt with the cynical slogan, ostensibly during a “holiday” event, was jarring.

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Tag Archives: people

Local People, Radda

Carousel, Night

Colchester Billiards & Snooker Club

It Doesn’t Help And No One Cares

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