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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Big Wong Restaurant

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Big Wong Restaurant
Big Wong Restaurant

Big Wong Restaurant. New York City. August 10, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

New York City street scene, as people pass in front of the Big Wong Restaurant in Chinatown

To an outsider, there are many things that seem to characterize New York City — the noise, the energy, the density of people, the constant motion, the often gritty character of many areas, the unique neighborhoods that bump into one another, the huge number of people out walking, the food, and much more. I’m more familiar with the famous San Francisco Chinatown (which is at least as crowded), and New York’s Chinatown feels vaguely familiar but also quite different. It certainly seems, for the most part, a lot less geared to tourists.

We went there for dinner one evening. After a week of too many expensive dinners we were looking for something both good and less expensive, so we ended up at a place near here that one of our group knew about. After dinner we went out on the streets, where it was now close to twilight. We decided to wander up towards Little Italy, and on the way we quickly passed though more of Chinatown’s narrow streets, and I managed to slow up our progress by stopping to photograph people and storefronts, including this wonderfully named restaurant with a few people and piles of trash outside on the sidewalk.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Red Storefront With Mural

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Red Storefront With Mural
Red Storefront With Mural

Red Storefront With Mural. New York City. December 25, 2013.© Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Red doors and window frames and brightly painted mural on a New York shop

Given the date, I suppose that this is a sort of Christmas photograph! We had arrived in New York the evening before, and while we had Christmas plans in Brooklyn, those were scheduled for much later in the day, so we ended up out and about in Lower Manhattan on a cold Christmas morning. Initially we headed south toward the financial district and the World Trade Center site – where it seemed that pretty much the only people around were our fellow tourists.

We finished up there and decided to head back to the hotel for a bit before going to Brooklyn. Starting this day and continuing throughout our weeklong stay, this small food stand became something of an icon, as we walked past it on the way to and from our Canal Street hotel daily. Oddly, when the place was closed it was at its most visually interesting, with a roll up door that had been painted brightly with the images of cars as you see here. The whole thing was behind an exterior set of glass windows/doors, the frame of which was painted the most gaudy shade of red imaginable.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Germany, Photographs: Urban/Street

Antiquariat

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Antiquariat
Antiquariat

Antiquariat. Heidelberg, Germany. July 11, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Doorway of a bookstore in Heidelberg, Germany

Once we got off the “main drag” (aka, the “hauptstrasse”) in Heidelberg, the streets became even narrower, the crowds diminished, the number of (mostly) young people riding bicycles increased, and there were more small shops that seemed quite unique. I think that this shop sells used or old books from the looks of it, but I’m afraid that I did not go inside to check – I don’t speak more than a few words of German, so a German bookstore was going to be more than a bit of a challenge!

Visually the store was still interesting, though. I’m fascinated by the interesting colors of paint on the walls and by the rather distressed quality of that paint on these old buildings, along with the odd and perhaps misaligned angles – you can see them clearly here if you take a close look at the door and its frame. There were a few small items sitting outside on the steps, but they hardly constituted a display that was guaranteed to grab the attention of passers-by. Inside you can see the inviting ambience of almost any old bookstore, with the warm glow of a lamp sitting on a desk or table.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Urban/Street, Photographs: Utah

Room for the Big Deep Bend

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Room for the Big Deep Bend
Room for the Big Deep Bend

Room for the Big Deep Bend. Koosharem, Utah. October 8, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Scowercroft’s Never Rip Overalls – Room for the Big Deep Bend

At about the time I made this photograph, we were staying in Torrey, Utah for a few days. Instead of doing the obvious thing and heading east to visit Capitol Reef National Park again, we headed west towards points unknown but including the Fish Lake area. We passed through small towns whose lives seemed more divorced from the tourist trade than others we had been through along route 12, and eventually turned off the main highway to head up to Fish Lake. It turned out that, at least partially as a result of my decision to not do too much research ahead of time, we had missed the main fall color season there and that, in fact, the whole place was pretty much shutting down for the season. We poked around a bit here before reversing direction and heading back to highway 24.

Rather than end our exploration quite so soon, we continued on along highway 24, soon turned off into the Valley where Koosharem is located. I cannot recall now what drove the decision to go there – perhaps the unusual name of the place or maybe the possibility of getting to mountains on the far side of the valley – but there we went. We initially pretty much drove right through Koosharem and on out into the country on the other side of town, but we soon stopped and decided that this was not the direction we really wanted to go. We turned around and headed back towards Koosharem. This time a few things caught our attention, including the plain architecture of certain buildings in the town and the surprising – to us, anyway – appearance of this antiquated looking, though clearly kept up, sign on the side of this building next to a leave littered parking area that also held an ATV and some sort of small trailer. I wondered about this sign and the advertising copy it contained, and I later found out that Scowercroft and Sons was a fairly large manufacturer of clothing centered in Ogden.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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