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Ding

January 23, 2014 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A pedestrian walks past a New York City post office building.

An apology might be appropriate for this photograph, which might be the oddest Christmas Day photograph of 2013. We had arrived in New York City the previous evening, and when we woke up on Christmas morning in Manhattan things were relatively quiet. We had an afternoon engagement in Brooklyn, but plenty of morning time to kill before that, so we figured that we might just take a (rather cold) walk deeper into Lower Manhattan, and we ended up heading toward the World Trade Center site.

Because there were so few people – and so few cars – out this morning, certain photographic opportunities arose that might not usually be easy or even possible here. You can bet that on a more typical day this street would have been filled with vehicles and the sidewalk filled with other pedestrians. But on this quiet day it was much easier to photograph unobstructed views or to find an individual figure in this urban landscape. As this man in black strode purposefully (very purposefully for Christmas day!) past this post office building I saw that I might have a brief opportunity to frame him against the architecture of the building and as soon as I saw this particular shot, a little voice in my head said… “Ding!” (Sorry. But probably not sorry enough.)

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Photographs: Germany, Photographs: People, Photographs: Urban/Street

Reading on the Steps

November 10, 2013 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A student studies a book on steps at the Physikalisches Institut of Heidelberg University, Germany

On our several walks to and along the Heidelberg Philosophen Weg, we passed by this university building, so I finally stopped for a moment and made a few photographs. The main building looks like an academic structure of some sort, so I had made a guess as to what this place was before I found the sign. One student reads on the steps, and a few of the ubiquitous bicycles are parked nearby. Also ubiquitous is the bit of political graffiti – found in many places near the University buildings, and often relatively small compared to the stuff we frequently see here in the US.

Yes, in a general sense, another postcard photograph. :-)

Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Pacific Northwest, Photographs: Structures and Objects

Beneath the St. Johns Bridge

September 14, 2013 G Dan Mitchell 1 Comment

Beneath the St. Johns Bridge across the Willamette River, Portland Oregon

Near the end of May we spent a few days in Portland, Oregon on a non-business trip. Most of our time was in the downtown area of Portland, probably mostly in and around the Pearl District. Yes, we did the usual stuff – Stumptown Coffee, repeated trips to Powell’s Books, sampling Oregon beer…

On the final morning before our departure we found ourselves with a few extra hours before we had to get to the airport, so we got out of downtown Portland and visited the area near the St. Johns Bridge. It was a quiet and misty morning, so our walk in the park beneath the bridge was a wet one, but I had time to photograph the bridge and the blossoming dogwood trees nearby. (For those who keep track of such things, this photograph was done using the little Fujifilm X-E1 camera – which is turning out to be a wonderful travel camera.)

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

Sidewalk and Driveway, Person Walking

August 25, 2013 G Dan Mitchell 3 Comments

A person walks along a San Francisco sidewalk at the edge of a concrete driveway

A made this photograph on the final weekend before the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) closed for a lengthy period of remodeling and expansion – this was the last weekend to visit until about two years from now! The closing weekend had sneaked up on me. I thought I had a lot of time left to see the Garry Winogrand exhibit, but when I realized that it would close in mere days I had to get up there. I had a chance to see that show (probably worthy of a post or two on its own), along with an extensive exhibit of work by architect Lebbeus Woods and another exhibit of a bunch of major photographers.

I also had a chance to do a bit of photography in the museum, something that I enjoy from time to time. I don’t shoot a lot in these places, but I keep my eyes open for unusual views, people, light and so forth. As I walked through a high hallway with windows overlooking a section of downtown San Francisco, I looked down and saw this landscape of concrete – the curves and lines and textures reminded me a bit of the Lebbeus Woods work that I had just seen. Shooting through the windows – which impart a slight odd tint to the subject below – I waited for people to walk through the scene, individually or in groups.

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Ding

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