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Photographs: England, Photographs: Travel

London Legs

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London Legs
A pair of legs, a low brick wall, and a sidewalk, London.

London Legs. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A pair of legs, a low brick wall, and a sidewalk, London.

As I prepared this photograph for posting I got a tune stuck in my ear — the proverbial ear worm. Sorry for sharing it, but the (slightly modified) lyrics would be: “London legs are falling down, falling down, falling down…” Not sorry enough?

This is another photograph that belongs to the category called, “it might be hard to explain this.” Let’s just call it street photograph, since that’s what it is. I think it is more about geometry than anything else, perhaps.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Smile More

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Smile More
A Manhattan street scene.

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A Manhattan street scene.

May I just say that I miss Manhattan? I really miss Mahattan. After a year of keeping my “social distance” from people, I would love nothing more than to be in the middle of a loud, busy, Manhattan street overcrowded with people, perhaps heading into some very small and crowded restaurant. We’re not there yet, but I’m starting to imagine a time when this will again be possible.

Oddly, this Manhattan photograph looks about as empty as one would expect during a pandemic, even though it was made on a normal New York day a few years ago. Perhaps it was the particular neighborhood or perhaps the time of day, but there was almost no one on the street when I made the photograph, aside from a young father who walked though the scene at one point with his child. “Smile more” says the sign.

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Photographs: Austria, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Salzburg Sisters

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“Salzburg Sisters ” — Two women walking down a cobbled Salzburg street.

There’s a part of me that is tempted to jump over the large number of travel and street photography images that I’m coming across as I traverse my old raw file archive… and move to some of the more familiar scenes from the natural world. But I’m going to continue to (mostly) resist that temptation and double down on these subject a bit longer, at least until I make it through this archive of images from a multi-week European trip back in 2013.

We stayed in Bavaria with family for about a week, just across the border from Salzburg, which we visited on several occasions during our stay. I love narrow streets and figures that quickly appear and disappear, challenging my ability to quickly see and create a photograph. As these women walked ahead of us I had just enough time to bring the camera up to my eye and make three quick exposures as they headed into a very narrow cobbled street.

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

At Nelson’s Column

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At Nelson's Column
People near Nelson’s Column at Trafalgar Square, London

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People near Nelson’s Column at Trafalgar Square, London

Everyone has to go to Trafalgar Square when visiting London, right? AT least if it is your first visit, which this was for us. I have previously shared a rather different version of this photograph — one rendered in monochrome and in a 4:3 aspect ratio. While looking through old photographs recently as part of my pandemic project, I came across it once again and saw it in a different way.

I now think that the colors in the image are appealing — I originally felt they were irrelevant. I find some interesting patterns and relationships among them. I also discovered that, for me anyway, there are a lot of interesting little things going on among the people in this photograph. While I don’t think it is a photograph that works primarily on the basis of its larger patterns (though there are some of those), I do think that it is the sort that becomes more interesting when I take the time to study it carefully. (I know. That’s kind of hard to do in a little social media jpg. A big print would work better for that.)

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