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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

A Sidewalk Vignette

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A Sidewalk Vignette
A passing moment along a Manhattan sidewalk

A Sidewalk Vignette. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A passing moment along a Manhattan sidewalk

This is just one of those fun instants that you come across in the urban environment, and which I notice more when I’m carrying a camera and making pictures. Most everything in this frame is more or less exactly what you might expect to find on a Manhattan sidewalk. Except for one thing — the child in her winter jacket, bent over with pleasure about something that is outside of the frame.

I miss New York about now, even more because the prospects of going there soon do not look too good… and because we have two sons and two daughters-in-law who live in that city. What I would give right now to take a stroll down a crowded Arthur Ave with them, or sit in a crowded restaurant, or even — seriously — take the subway somewhere. Maybe a year from now?

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.

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Photographs: Pandemia, Photographs: Urban/Street

Bench and Wall

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Bench and Wall
Postcard from Pandemia: bench and wall.

Bench and Wall. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Postcard from Pandemia: bench and wall.

From the “Postcards from Pandemia” series, another photograph made on one of my neighborhood walk circuits. This route takes me past a location that I knew very well when I was much younger, and when I visit now it evokes thoughts about time — how some things have changed a lot while others have changed not at all.

In normal times I probably have not been able to approach this bench at this time of day without raising suspicions and concerns, especially when carrying a camera and making photographs. But the entire area was empty since the shelter-in-place orders had closed it down.

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Commentary, Photographs: Urban/Street

Pylons

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Pylons
Unused orange pylons, pipoes, and a fence.

Pylons. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Unused orange pylons, pipes, and a fence.

A postcard from Pandemia, photographed on a neighborhood walk last month that took me past a school that should have been in session, crowded with students, and likely with cares everywhere. It was empty, with no sign of students, teachers, parents, or anyone else. The piles of dead leaves along the edges of parking areas accentuated the feeling that the place had been abandoned.

This row of bright orange pylons stood along a curb with nothing to do, just hanging out and waiting to see if anyone showed up. They seemed happy to see me.

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.

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Mondrian Wall

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Mondrian Wall
A wall of a school building closed during the pandemic.

Mondrian Wall. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A wall of a school building closed during the pandemic.

Why, yes, this is from the “Postcards from Pandemia” series of photographs made on my almost-daily walks in the greater neighborhood, an area including a range of subjects in suburban neighborhoods, apartment complexes, closed schools, nearly empty parks, a largely shuttered business district, and light industrial zones.

This is a detail of a wall at the front of a school that is became deserted at about the time when students would have been pushing through the last part of the academic year and looking forward to summer. If you are like me, you might find more than one way to look at this scene.

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.

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