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

Souvenir Shoppers, Milan

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Souvenir Shoppers, Milan
“Souvenir Shoppers, Milan” — Tourists pack a small souvenir shop near the Milan Duomo.

One of the “problems” with a long trip — at least for this photographer — is that I come back with so many photographs that it takes quite a whileto go through all of them. I made more than 5000 exposures on a 10-week visit to (mostly) Southern Europe last summer. While I’ve viewed all of them at least once, there’s still a lot of work to do when it comes to evaluating and post-processing. That’s my way of saying, “More still to come!”

This was a quick “street photography” shot in the doorway of a small souvenir shop along the square in front of the Milan Duomo. Needless to say, this is a busy area, especially during the summer. There are lots of opportunities to watch and photograph people of all sorts, both tourists and the Milanese.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Urban/Street

Woman on Telephone

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A woman sits against a Manhattan brick wall to talk on the telephone.

Woman on Telephone. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.

A woman sits against a Manhattan brick wall to talk on the telephone.

Yesterday’s photograph came from the same trip that produced this photograph. Before we headed off for a family event in the green mountains of Vermont we spent four days in the concrete “mountains” and canyons of Manhattan. New York City is definitely not back to normal yet, but it feels far less oppressive than when we visited last winter during the height of one of the covid variants. Back then the streets were largely empty; now there are people out and about once again. We took advantage of this to wander the areas around the lower half of Central Park and some distance south of the park, where I made this photograph.

To some people it seems strange that a supposed “nature photographer” would want to spend time in a busy urban center like Manhattan, much less take a small camera into the street and make pictures of that life. But I like the contrast — the speed and immediacy of street photography, the necessity of making quick and intuitive decisions, and more. I grabbed two frames of this woman crouched against a brick wall and talking on the phone as we walked by, barely breaking stride to make the exposure.

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Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Man Checking Phone

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A man chiecks his phone while statnding in an angular urban landscape

Man Checking Phone. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A man chiecks his phone while statnding in an angular urban landscape.

This is a little slice of urban life. I suspect that in another 100 years people will look at photographs from this era and find it odd that we area always looking down at little handheld devices. At least I hope that this is a passing obsession, and that we eventually start to look up again and interact with the world around us rather than just with the virtual world on those little screens.

The person is, of course, the central thing in this photography. But the surroundings are also, I think, rather interesting. The image has an almost cubist quality, being full of rectangular shapes of various sizes, shapes, and colors. Some of them are almost geometrically perfect, but others — like the plastic attached to the cyclone fence — are off-kilter. Even the foreground is composed for rectangles, though they are distorted by perspective effects.

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Photographs: Germany, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Woman At The Wall

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A woman at the Berlin Wall, East Side Gallery

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A woman at the Berlin Wall, East Side Gallery.

We were in Berlin for a few days last summer, as one stop on our 40-day sojourn through (mostly) Europe. Our routine is mostly to travel light — carryon only — and to walk a lot in every city we visit. In fact, once we arrive in a city, with few exceptions we either walk or occasionally take public transit to get where we want to go. In Berlin it was entirely a matter of walking.

On this day our walking loop took us past the East Side Gallery which, despite the name, is one of the few remaining sections of the old Berlin Wall. It became a sort of outdoor gallery when artists took over sections of the wall and created a wild display of street art. I wanted to photograph some of the work, but I didn’t want to just come back with photographs of someone else’s art so I decided to look for coincidences and juxtapositions between the images on the wall and the people who passed by.

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