Detroit
Detroit, Michigan is a city that is rich in history and culture. Known as the Motor City, it is home to some of the most iconic landmarks in the United States, including the Renaissance Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Fox Theatre. Detroit is also a great destination for photographers, with a variety of locations that offer stunning views and unique perspectives. From the abandoned buildings and graffiti-covered walls of the city's urban landscape to the scenic beauty of Belle Isle Park and the Detroit Riverwalk, there are plenty of opportunities to capture the essence of this vibrant city through the lens of a camera.
I’m sure you can tell, can you? It was very exciting on the day one of our trip. GM’s Renaissance Center is a magnificent structure that is impossible not to notice in downtown Detroit. My mind was going in to overdrive just thinking about the angles from where I can capture it. This was the first location from where I was able to frame it with the very interesting, single track encircling transportation services called “People mover”. What do you think?
I’m extremely excited to announce that I just released the schedule for the 3 new amazing workshops. Please stop by and checked them out so you can make your plans ahead of time.
It turns out that not only has my good friend ShinsanBC gotten me interested in going to Antelope Canyon to shoot, but I'm also unintentionally...
“Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t trade this path I’m on for the whole solar system, for that matter. If I’ve learned anything these last several months, it’s that sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” ― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After
Do you have the same problem? After returning back from Detroit I had a sensory overload. We had so much fun and the experience was more than we can hope for that I had to let my head cool down a bit before I dive deep in to the editing some of the shots. I have to thank Alanna St Laurent (@alannastlaurentphotography), a great photographer and above all a great human being, for making sure that we don’t miss out on anything. And we didn’t! So 4 days and 350GB of images later we came home happy. This is the 3 image and 100MPX vertorama of the beautiful Wayne County Building in the very downtown. What do you think?
I hope this sends you back in time? Here is the last image, for now, of this Detroit series. This is a beautiful “Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Building. It was designed by architect Julius Hess, and constructed at 1942 West Grand River and Cass as an appropriate structure for meetings and other GAR related activities. This Richardsonian Romanesque-designed building lies on a small, triangular lot on the northwest side of downtown Detroit” (Wiki). We really enjoyed photographing this gem. What do you think?
This is the center of the Bell Isle Aquarium. The basic shape of it is one long hallway with a giant circular dome in the middle. I had to wait a...
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Detroit!
Most notably Andrey Sulitskiy and Nenad Spasojevic.