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Flatiron Building
Building in New York City, New York
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper.
Zhongshan Dongyi Rd. No. 9.
After the old building had suffered from termite damages, the consulate moved 1937 into the Glen Line Building (today Shanghai Everbright Bank). I assume it served as German consulate until 1945.
Built from 1906 to 1910 and located at 207 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC.
When built, the Dominion Building was the tallest commercial building in the British Empire at thirteen stories high. Taller buildings dot Vancouver's skyline today, but this one definitely stands out with its terracotta finish and architecture, which I just learned is in the style known as "Second Empire". I would always see just the top of the building and wonder what it was built and used for, and since it reminded me of a loaf of bread/pullman loaf, in my mind it was the "bread building".
Glass panels along the side of the Freedom Tower in New York. Shot in medium format on the Mamiya 7.
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Ship Yard Buildings, Crane. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Weathered ship yard buildings illuminated by saturated colors of artificial lighting
I recently had a chance to return to this old ship yard facility near Vallejo, California to work on night photography. This is actually the place where I first tried out that genre approximately fifteen years ago. It was more or less on a whim — I read that someone was inviting photographers to come up to Mare Island, in conjunction with the annual Flyway Festival, and find out about night photography. I knew almost nothing about it, but decided to give it a try. Since that time I've been hooked. I've returned to photograph that locations often during the intervening decade and a half, and my night photography expanded from that beginning point to incorporate other subjects and places. (Most recently I have focused on night street photography done with small handheld cameras.)
This photograph is a prime example of several of the things that intrigue me about photographing at night. Scenes that might seem mundane in "normal" daylight are often transformed in the night. Not only do many distractions simply disappear, but the light itself, especially in areas with varied artificial illumination, transforms these subjects. In many places LED lights have replaced the wild mix of tungsten, fluorescent, sodium vapor, and other sources today — an unfortunate development in the visual sense, as LED light is more or less like daylight. But in places like this spot, the colors of the light become intense. Here it is the exceedingly green light of a large work light that predominates. Another appealing aspect of night photography is that it lets me make photographs of things that I really can't see with my own eyes. In the ambient lighting I could only barely see the details of this scene. But with a long exposure there is enough light to reveal features that I could not see at all, a pure example of "seeing what the camera sees."
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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(Camera settings)
Camera: FinePix HS20EXR (FUJIFILM)
Focal Length: 5 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/3.6
Shutter Speed: 1/1700sec
Merry Cemetery of Sapanta / Cimetière joyeux de Sapanta:
The Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa is a cemetery of the Maramures region of Romania, with the particularity of having its tombs decorated with wooden funerary steles, painted in bright colors, with a naive type engraving representing a scene of life, a activity or causes of death of the person buried, accompanied by a poem, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes humorous, dedicated to the memory of the dead.
The General Assembly is coming up or being thrust upon New York City. So I figured, I would share this picture I took of the United Nations complex, as seen from Hunters Point.
Architect by Shimizu Corporation (設計：清水建設).
Completed in February 1993 (竣工：1993年2月).
Location at Kyobashi, Chuo Ward, Tokyo Metropolitan, Japan (場所：東京都中央区京橋2-14-1).
Kanematsu Building looks like 4 legs robot. Ceiling height 8.0m is to ensure wide entrance hall.
Adding, shooting long exposure, there are car light trail and stars. :)
めっちゃ気になっていた兼松ビル。重厚な四足ロボットのような形状がイケています。ここは本社ではなかったんですね。いい角度がなかったので、星と車の光跡を一緒に撮りました(^^;)
Red Industrial Buildings. Mare Island Naval Ship Yard, Vallejo, California. April 5, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Red industrial buildings, one of brick and the other of painted metal, at the historic Mare Island Naval Ship Yard
Almost all of my photographs of the historic Mare Island Naval Ship Yard near Vallejo, California were made at night. This has been my primary and frequent subject for night photography over a period of about a decade. I typically show up there at the very end of the day and go straight to the locations where I'll shoot in darkness, and most often I don't even really look for photographs much when there is light. There have been a few exceptions, mostly when I have arrived a bit early. I have a few golden hour photographs from the upper end of the island where there are a number of very dilapidated old buildings, and a few years ago I once photographed one of the industrial streets at sunset.
This time I was there with my friends from the San Francisco Bay Area night photography group, The Nocturnes, who were gathering for an "alumni night" event. Since daylight savings had begun recently, it seemed like our schedule was off a bit, and we had finished all of the pre-night-photography events an hour before sunset! So I went out with camera and tripod and made a few photographs of non-night subjects. Many areas on the island seem a bit plain in daylight once you have seen their appearance under the varied illumination found here at night. The night light can turn a boring tan building into a structure of bright yellow or green, with shadows playing over its surface. I decided to look mostly for textures, shape, and color as I walked around in the brighter light, and these buildings, with their combination of metal and brick walls, red colors from bricks and peeling paint, and angles of roof lines seemed like an interesting subject.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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