Tag Archives: sidewalk

Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Halal Cart

May 8, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Sidewalk Halal food cart, New York City

This is another photograph that I have had sitting on my computer desktop for months, since shortly after we returned from New York on the last days of 2015. There probably isn’t a whole lot to say about this photograph. (Or is there?) These food carts are everywhere in New York, day and night. And I hear that they are soon coming to the San Francisco Bay Area, too. It must have been a slow day for the vendor, since he seems to have plenty of time to sit at the front of the cart and watch the world go by.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Hand to Heart

February 11, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A man on a cell phone outside a coffee shop with holiday decorations

I made this photograph on Christmas Eve day, 2015 in Brooklyn, when we went out to find coffee in the morning. If I recall correctly, we ended up at this Starbucks — though it is possible that we might have just walked past here on the way to another place. The man was probably not the main subject. The wild patterns in the windows were what first caught my attention.

Initially I thought of the photograph as a color image, but the more I looked at it the more the various holiday colors began to distract from the pattern itself, so I decided to go with the monochromatic rendering. Inside there were many people, sitting on chairs and at tables, drinking coffee and checking their laptops. Outside on the cold sidewalk and alone, one man waited for something and checked his phone.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Market, Mott Street

January 30, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A family pauses on the sidewalk in front of a Chinatown market on Mott Street on Christmas Eve.

I have been a bit surprised to find a lot of photographs of families, often with a kid in a stroller, among my street photographs from this December 2015 visit to New York. The photographs range from an adult family posing for a selfie (yet to be shared here) to families on busy downtown streets to night photographs like this one — and strollers seem to be a repeating theme. I’m not sure what this means.

While trying to figure out where we would go for dinner after discovering that our first choice and its neighbors were way to busy, I took a few minutes to wander up to the end of this very narrow street. This corner market featured a wild and colorful assortment of produce in outdoor stalls along the sidewalk, made more intense by lighting under the awning. My first thought was to photograph this colorful subject, but then I watched to see who might wander by and populate the photograph. A family stopped, father looking at his wife and child and the woman casting a glance in my direction.

Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Woman Walking Past Scaffolding

January 29, 2016 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

A woman walks past scaffolding in front of Manhattan shops

There are several things that I find interesting about this photograph. First, I don’t remember making it! I remember many other subjects from this evening — we had walked across the Williamsburg Bridge, stopped in a tavern, visited Stand Bookstore, and more. But I have no recollection of making this final photograph of the evening. Second, the scaffolding lining the sidewalk and, above where we cannot see it in this photograph, seems like a common feature in Manhattan. I walked through, past, and around scaffold-covered buildings frequent.

My subject here is yet another example of that modern species of human who walks (at least at the moment of my photograph) along city streets and elsewhere, absorbed in the world of that little handheld device and giving no indication of being connected to the surrounding world. OK, I like the light, too. The light from the shop spills out of the front windows and across the sidewalk, creating shadows that are muted and filled by light from the surrounding neighborhood.

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Tag Archives: sidewalk

Halal Cart

Hand to Heart

Market, Mott Street

Woman Walking Past Scaffolding

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