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Photographs: Europe, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Spain, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

El Madroño, Madrid

Image January 24, 2025 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Madrid was filled with people celebrating the holiday season when we visited in December. Every evening thousands of people filled the streets in the area where we were staying, and holiday lights were everywhere. There was a big Christmas market at the Plaza Mayor and smaller ones elsewhere. We did not go to Madrid specifically for the holiday events, but we got into the spirit once we saw what was going on.

But none of that is visible in this photograph, made at night not far from where the big crowds were. We were exploring the area, wandering this way and that and turning up interesting lanes. I spotted this building across the street — nothing all that special about the place, but I love photographing night scenes with varied lighting sources, especially when a bit of moisture makes the streets and sidewalks glow and reflect the light.

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Photographs: Europe, Photographs: Italy, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Doorway, Arezzo, Italy

Image December 14, 2024 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

We came to this scene during a long exploratory walk. Our lodgings were in the lower part of old Arezzo, and as we walked into the old business area the streets began to ascend. There were people about, but it was nothing like the crowds in tourist centers like Florence, from which we had just arrived. Eventually we arrived at Arezzo’s Grand Piazza, but we kept going, right up to the old wall at the crest of the hill. We followed this to the left, stopping to enter an old church. As we came out I saw this little scene, which seems so characteristically Italian.

The building was on a small square near the entrance to the church. It had the features that are common here, including the stonework and the stucco walls, in one of the typical colors in these towns. (They tend toward earth tones of one sort or another.) As uncrowded as the lower town had been, here at the upper end we were almost alone.

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Photographs: England, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

The Shambles, Morning

Image September 20, 2024 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Yes, this. is another in the recent series of photographs from York, England. We were just there for a couple of nights back in early June, when we stopped during our train trip from Edinburgh to London. We didn’t really have time to do York justice, and some wet weather didn’t help, but we enjoyed our brief stay and would go back again. (As is typical with us, our first visit, among other things, usually reveals a number of things that we didn’t manage to visit — we’ll see them next time!)

This is a particularly narrow section of the Shambles, the very old commercial area in York, full of tiny shops. Many are quaint. Some are pretty touristy. (Along this street are several featuring Harry Potter artifacts — which some think is great and others think is a bit too much.) I made the photograph early in the morning, when the first arriving tourists shared the street with what I assume to be locals heading to work.

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Red Phone Booth

Image August 31, 2024 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

As is often the case with a subject like this, it turns out that there may be more than meets the eye. To me this was just an old red phone booth in a surprising location at Oxford University. But a bit of reading after I got home revealed that there are more than a dozen of them in Oxford. They are generally no longer functional, and they date back many decades. And, no, it does not appear that they are larger on the inside than on the outside. ;-)

Color is, of course, important — especially in color photography! If you keep track of such things, you might notice that this photograph and another I have shared (a woman in London) both feature the color red. The color red can be read (unintentional pun!) in lots of different ways. It is the color of blood and sometimes regarded as the color a passion. It stands out against all sorts of backgrounds, especially in the built environment where it is unusual.

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El Madroño, Madrid

Doorway, Arezzo, Italy

The Shambles, Morning

Red Phone Booth

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