Detroit Window

I haven’t posted a Detroit photo in a while, so here we go.  We had a hit list of Detroit Urbex locations to hit up, but we also explored some sites that we randomly found, just driving around.  That’s the story of this spot.  We went to the Michigan Central Station (the building outside the window) to photograph the area around it.  During that time, we found this abandoned beauty with great views like this photo.  I took a bunch of window photos like this one at this spot. 

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Washington Monument

I couldn’t think of a clever name for this blog post.  Frankly, I’ve never been good at that.  I see other photographers posting extremely clever names for their photos and blog posts.  That’s just not me.  I guess I’m just not that funny.   How would you label this post?

Regardless of the title, I really like this photo of the National Mall in Washington D.C.  I got extremely lucky to find this spot without dozens of tourists standing in my photo.   

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AB's Departure

Well its official.  Antonio Brown is being traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Oakland Raiders.  He’s taking his extremely good football skills and over-heated ego to the west coast.  He was also quick with his giant smile.  It was fun watching him play over the last seven years while I covered the team.  I wish him the best. 

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Old and New

I like this city photo a bunch and I’m not really sure why.  Its probably just the contrast between the old building and the new skyscraper in the background. I took this last fall while I was in San Francisco.  I spent probably 8 hours over three days just walking around the city capturing random photos here and there.  It will be interesting to see if you like it as much as I do.  There are photos I expect to get lots of love that do and others that surprise me and don’t.  But I don’t know what to expect with this one.  So let’s find out.

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Chernobyl Article

Here is another newspaper article about Blair and I traveling to Chernobyl to photograph the Exclusion Zone.  This is from my childhood hometown paper. Click HERE to see the article.

Mexican Peninsula

What a beautiful spot!!  I took this photo with my drone while traveling north of Cancun.  The beach was amazing along this stretch.  I think I need a vacation home in this area.  Anyone want to back that project for me?

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Motherland Monument

This massive statue sits on top of the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)…we know it as World War II.  This stainless-steel statue is 203 feet tall.  Counting the museum building it sit on, the entire structure is 335 feet tall and it weighs 560 tons.  The sword in her right hand is 52 feet long by itself and weighs 9 tons.  That’s a huge statue by any comparison!!  The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is on the shield.  Even though this war ended in 1945, they didn’t start the construction of this statue until 1979 and it was completed in 1981.

In Kiev, Ukraine where this is located, the statue is controversial due to Ukraine’s complicated and currently rough relationship with Russia.  Blair and I spent a few hours walking around this national park photographing the war monuments, tanks, etc….  If you’re wondering, the blue and yellow tank in the foreground is painted the Ukrainian colors.

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Gears

What do you think of this photo?  It’s one of those photos that I like but am not sure whether anyone else will like it or not. 

This pile of gears was inside the main building at Carrie Furnace.  I liked this perspective with all the gears going from the foreground to mid photo with the rest of the industrial building in the back ground.  Anyway… thoughts on this?

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Downtown Pitt

I took this photo with my drone a few months ago in downtown Pittsburgh at dawn.  The site wasn’t really even awake yet.  This is a perspective not seen often.  I like the leading lines with the road heading towards the Highmark building and the road along the river.

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Children's Summer Camp

This summer camp outside of Chernobyl had dozens of these little cabins with fun little murals painted on their sides.  We spent a little time walking around exploring what must have been a great time back when it was operational.  The camp sits on a hill overlooking the Pripyat River.  This was probably a very happy place prior to the nuclear disaster.

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Travel Sunrise

I scrolled through numerous photos in my archive tonight looking for something to post.  I came across this photo I took while on one of our cruises.  Per my normal process, I was up before 99% of the passengers trying to capture the ultimate sunrise photo.  I don’t think photo falls into the ultimate photo category, but I like it a bunch.

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Hippo

How is your week going so far?  I can’t believe Wednesday is already over, that tells you how busy my schedule has been.  So I’ll keep this short tonight.

I took this photo on our water safari in South Africa.  I loved how the hippo looked with the sunset behind it.

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Chernobyl Cranes

I flew my drone a long way down the Pripyat River to capture this photo.  I honestly don’t remember the distance, but I can tell you it was far enough that I got nervous.  My drone was losing reception and acting weird.  When it started to fly back to me, I started to feel better again.   Thankfully, I captured this photo before it started acting up.

These cranes are abandoned on the river a short distance from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

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Sunrise Over The Beach

What can I say about this photo that is doesn’t say by itself?  Probably nothing!!!  Let’s just sit back and enjoy it. I took this photo, along with a bunch of others, with my drone flying back and forth low along the beach.  I love the colors and feel of it.    

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National Museum of African American History

This is a fairly new Smithsonian museum.  I haven’t had a chance to experience the inside, but during my last visit to Washington DC, I photographed the outside.  I must admit, it’s a pretty cool looking structure.  The sunset reflected nicely off this wide marble wall they have around the perimeter. 

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Detroit Graffiti

If you’re ever in the Detroit, please go check out the Eastern Market.  What a cool area.  Lots of great businesses, nice spaces and awesome world class graffiti murals like this one.

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Blue Spot

This is the infinity pool at the Grand Palladium Resort north of Cancun Mexico.  I took this photo just after sunrise.  I was one of only a few people who climbed out of bed to see this beautiful scene.  What a great morning….  Can I please go back????

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ESB

I’m keeping it short tonight.  Here is a photo I took of the Empire State Building just after sunset.  I loved the colors in the sky that evening.  What do you think? 

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Pripyat Apartment Building

I haven’t posted a Chernobyl photo recently, so here you go.  This is one of the large apartment buildings in the city of Pripyat a few miles from the nuclear power plant.  Typical Soviet utilitarian style construction.  As you can tell, I was there in the fall while the leaves where changing colors and used by drone to capture this image.

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Lighted Flower

I processed this photo last night.  I forgot I even took this photo from my San Francisco trip.  So, when I found the raw images on my hard drive, I went right to work editing this photo.  I liked how it turned out. 

This is from a courtyard between a complex of buildings in the Financial District.  This lighted flower structure is the decorative top of an elevator within the courtyard. 

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