The State of Sleeping Plants – July additions
The garden is always in a state of flux. I have added new images to the State of Sleeping Plants gallery.
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The State of Sleeping Plants – Kincardine
I was in Kincardine last month and there was no shortage of gloomy and overcast days to shoot new sleeping plants! On the left: funkia and on the right: Eleocharis palustris.
The Packard Automotive Plant is Burning!
Last month I had the chance to photograph Detroit's abandoned Packard Automotive Plant. It is 3.5 million square foot photographers playground. Of course we only saw a fraction of the site as we were trying to see and shoot as much of the city as we could during our 3 day "tour". That and after a couple of hours, 3.5 million square feet of vandalized, burned, burning, crumbling,...
Detroit Rock City – literally
A couple weeks ago I celebrated Canada's May 24 weekend with friends exploring abandoned and vacated Detroit with my new Rolleiflex E2 TLR. We did the requisite tour of Packard Automotive, St. Agnes/Martyrs of Uganda Parish Church, the Lee Plaza Hotel/Apartments, Highland Park and Fisher Body 21. I could have stayed in Detroit for weeks, the whole city is a photographers playground and after the sun sets there...
The Unicorn Slayer
Last weekend I shot new photos for Andrew Robertson to run with his freelance writings for Fab Magazine and some composites for his Beary Tales series with Fay Slift. It was a quick & dirty shoot. Armed with a knights costume (source: Winners?!?!), a unicorn mask, dollar store sword and my Nikon 7000/sb600/light stand, we dashed to High Park to play. These are my favourites. [nggallery id=13]