Reflections in new windows during reconstruction at the World Trade Center site, New York City, 2011.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
Two of my photographs (seen below) were selected to be part of AVIAN: Birds In A Changing World, a current exhibit featuring work by more than 40 artists — photographers, painters, sculptors, ceramicists, and much more.
The show is open now and continues through January 14, 2018 at Gallery Five at Gallery Row in Oakhurst. Inquiries sales from the exhibit may be directed to the gallery by phone at 559-683-5551 or by email admin@sierraarttrails.org.
AVIAN: Birds in a Changing World opened this week at Gallery Five in Oakhurst, California and runs through January 14. The gala reception is this Saturday, December 9th at 4:00-8:00PM at Gallery Five — 40982 Hwy 41, Suite 5, Oakhurst.
The juried exhibition features work by more than 60 artists, and includes two of my photographs.
Snow Goose Maelstrom
Black-necked Stilt Taking Flight
I’m going to make it a full “avian day” on Saturday, greeting the dawn and a few thousand of my avian friends in the Great Central Valley before heading on over to Oakhurst for the reception. Hope to see some of you there!
You can find out more at the exhibition’s Facebook page.
Late-night passers-by at the Gelato King stand, corner of Mulberry and Grand, NYC
Another gelato stand! It seems that this is becoming a theme here. Of course, given that we were staying in a hotel located essentially on the border between Manhattan’s Chinatown and Little Italy districts, these kinds of places were everywhere: Italian deli on the corner, Italian pastry across the street, gelato and cannoli never more than a few footsteps away. (The fact that we were staying in this particular area was more a function of a good price on a hotel than of a desire to be in the middle to the tourist attractions of Little Italy.)
This photograph, if nothing else, illustrates a few things that I look for when photographing urban areas at night, at least when working with subjects like this one. It has a central focus point, and one that seems to provide most of the interesting light in the scene — namely the little gelato stand, with its light (and that of the cannoli stand just around the corner) spilling out onto the sidewalk and providing much of the illumination in the scene. (Additional ambient illumination from other businesses provides a bit of light on the figures.) I made a series of photographs here in rapid succession as people walked through the scene. In some there is no one but the fellow in the stand, in others a group is queued up to buy gelato. In this one the people are almost uniformly spread across the scene, with various orientations to the central light. On both sides women in lighter colors walk toward it; red and yellow tones show up in the attire of several of the subjects.
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