Storefront, Two Men
Storefront, Two Men. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Two men at a Manhattan storefront as a Columbus Day parade passes by.
Switching gears again today, this is another photograph from our October East Coast visit. The trip was primarily geared toward photographing autumn color in New England, but we managed to sped a couple of nights in Manhattan between that and our homeward flight. Our visit coincided with what New York still refers to as the “Columbus Day Parade,” though a more modern designation is apparently also something along the lines of Italian Heritage Day. (One bizarrely noteworthy moment was seeing Rudy Giuliani yucking it up at the front of one of the floats, but I digress…) We wandered around the periphery of the parade route, where the onlookers were in many cases more fascinating than the parade itself.
I made this photograph using one of my “blind shooting” techniques. There are lots of different thoughts about how street photographers should (or should not) interact with their subjects, and I think they all have some validity. Here I did not want the subjects to be distracted by me, so I held the camera in front of me as I walked by and made a couple of exposures without look directly at the two men. I think it paid off. I feel like there are a number of ways to try to make sense of what is going on here and what it might imply, but I’ll leave it to viewers to figure this out.
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, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Storefront, Two Men
Storefront, Two Men. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Two men at a Manhattan storefront as a Columbus Day parade passes by.
Switching gears again today, this is another photograph from our October East Coast visit. The trip was primarily geared toward photographing autumn color in New England, but we managed to sped a couple of nights in Manhattan between that and our homeward flight. Our visit coincided with what New York still refers to as the “Columbus Day Parade,” though a more modern designation is apparently also something along the lines of Italian Heritage Day. (One bizarrely noteworthy moment was seeing Rudy Giuliani yucking it up at the front of one of the floats, but I digress…) We wandered around the periphery of the parade route, where the onlookers were in many cases more fascinating than the parade itself.
I made this photograph using one of my “blind shooting” techniques. There are lots of different thoughts about how street photographers should (or should not) interact with their subjects, and I think they all have some validity. Here I did not want the subjects to be distracted by me, so I held the camera in front of me as I walked by and made a couple of exposures without look directly at the two men. I think it paid off. I feel like there are a number of ways to try to make sense of what is going on here and what it might imply, but I’ll leave it to viewers to figure this out.
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, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.