  Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 358 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ladies and gentlemen, as promised, I give you...The Wild West Side: http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_38 20.jpg?t=1177879351 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_38 16.jpg?t=1177879391 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_38 05.jpg?t=1177879445 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_38 04.jpg?t=1177879494 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_37 96.jpg?t=1177879628 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_37 92.jpg?t=1177879682 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_37 97.jpg?t=1177879723 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_37 84.jpg?t=1177879784 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_37 79.jpg?t=1177879834 more later on... | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 190 Registered: 06-2006 |
Man those picture are so clear. What kind of camera is that? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2060 Registered: 12-2005 |
I get a kick out of hunting down these locations in Google Earth. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 363 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ordinary, I’m using my Kodak point and pray, held together with a pink rubber band. The weather and sunlight were the major players in the clarity of those shots. For me, there is not a lot of latitude with clear skies, so these shots were taken before 9 am. I really prefer cloudy, rainy or dark days, but I did ok today. If you like today’s series, please check out ‘17th St. Fire’ posted earlier today. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1384 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ah, yes. Grand River and Warren. Just a block behind the last photo (next to St. Leo's Church) was a box company in 1945 that burned with about a dozen employees dying in the blaze. One of Detroit's deadliest. Anyone remember reading about that one? | ||
Cman710 Member Username: Cman710 Post Number: 290 Registered: 07-2006 |
I like the last photo. I know you mentioned you like shooting on darker days, but I think they came out nicely. Personally, I like clear days, even if they may make subjects of the photograph seem less gritty. | ||
Waxx Member Username: Waxx Post Number: 142 Registered: 09-2006 |
wow, bulletmagnet. those pix you posted show so much clarity despite the blight areas you were in. But the Lee Beauty supply on Gd. River (that used to be a Comerica Bank) and Joy Rd., and the art-deco buildings on Livernois display a very nice touch. | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 355 Registered: 08-2006 |
The average building today is garbage compared to the commercial structures in those photos. | ||
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44 Post Number: 121 Registered: 02-2007 |
Where's Jjaba? Excellent pics Bullet...delve a little farther than Grand River though like Schoolcraft and Evergreen. Although I would rather you come back home to the EAST. Let Jjaba take pics of the WEST. Please don't hold it against me :} I'm an Eastsider at heart. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 371 Registered: 01-2007 |
Gtat44, I plan on taking the west side by strategy! Soon, all of Detroit will be ours! Muhahahahah! | ||
Bornthere Member Username: Bornthere Post Number: 6 Registered: 05-2007 |
What great pictures. I agree with 'Fareastsider' that the average building today is garbage. I mean in the sense that they mostly lack character and it would be out of the question to do the special brickwork, plaster, gorgeous woods and architectural detail. I bet there are pictures sitting around in old trunks, scrapbooks and such that show many of the buildings and neighborhoods in better times. I know that my Great Uncle was a marble and stone mason; he had a business in Detroit and I have a picture of a couple of his accomplishments. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1404 Registered: 01-2005 |
"I bet there are pictures sitting around in old trunks, scrapbooks and such that show many of the buildings and neighborhoods in better times." There are. Ookpik has them all.  | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 403 Registered: 01-2007 |
Bornthere, can you share a few of those photos with the viewing audience? |
