Winter Tree Shadow on Purple Wall. San Jose, California. January 10, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. larger

The shadow of a winter tree falls across a purple wall in a San Jose, California parking lot.

On Saturday, as I wrote earlier, one the subjects I focused on during my urban photography walk was the shadows of winter trees, which seem to be everywhere this time of year when the sun is so low in the sky. The wall of this building really is this wild shade of purple, and I like the way the tree shadows fall across it and are offset by the almost monochromatic asphalt of the bit of parking lot showing at the bottom of the frame.

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