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Lined up perfectly ... great job !
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Just perfect... excellent !
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What a great shot! Your narrative makes it even better. Nice work!
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Nice job, nice colors
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Love this capture! I've wanted to take this shot for years... how did you do it?? Were you standing on the Warren overpass?
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Excellent composition! I like to think of the beautifully lit sky as symbolizing "the golden glimmer of hope" for this once-great city. Congratulations for a superb photo and commentary.
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I had to come back and fave this as I've always found this juxtaposition to be very ironic.
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This is a superb capture- a fantastic piece of social documentary caught with a keen eye for irony and commentary. Thanks for the history to the shot, and really well framed with beautiful light too. You've told your story well here. Excellent work.
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A modern Oz...
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Wonderful and thanks for the edifying description.
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fantastic story telling too....just wonderful...the whole thing.
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i like the light in the pic! really cool shot!
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Great shot. This picture has been taken many times before but not with this amount of quality. I also like the social commentary on Detroit. Most people dont take the time to understand the problems that face Detroit.
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Fantastic shot and commentary ... I have wanted to take this same photo for years but just never got around to it ... thanks for sharing ... cheers
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well done!
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beautiful shot, wonderful colors and detail.....
God forgives.
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Interesting shot and interesting comment. Thank you.
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Great job geoff! I also really like your commentary, and its good for people who still think of detroit as a prospering city to realize its true nature. very nice!
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I hope you pop over to Windsor one day and take some awesome photos of my hometown!
"Detroit City is the place to be
Let the Mad Dog City set you free."-Ted Nugent
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georgeivetic: I'll hop on the bridge one sunny day to take some pics. I've been to windsor a few times but mainly to take the train to Toronto or Montreal. I'll be sure to check out the downtown extensively.
Thanks all for your comments!
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Back again to this great shot. I've always detested the architecture of the RenCen; it's like a giant phallic symbol. Adding the GM logo just heightened the irony.
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I've imagined this picture thousand times, but none like this. This is absolutely great. Alignment is perfect, the lighting, the symbolism, everything.
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Geoffrey, Your photo is worthy of National Geographic, or the superb pictorial essays that used to run in LIFE. I found a less-successful version on Flickr, from 2005 -- this one severely cropped, and with punning alliteration in the caption:
www.flickr.com/photos/urbantiki/5024415/
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thanks Wystan!! I am humbled by your suggestion that this could be in LIFE or NG. Maybe one day.... best,
- Geoff
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Perfect position and lighting on this. Congratulations on this great shot.
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These two things not only contrast each other, but complement each other. Detroit has many, many beautiful churches, but is also the once dauntless champion of industry, paralelled by few other cities in its heyday. I once heard that Detroit's industrial output was more than that of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Buffalo combined. The city of Industry, but also the city of churches. These two things are staples of Detroit.
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Great shot indeed!
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This is the sight I'm treated to as I take the off-ramp to my school not far off the exit just before Mack. Thanks for capturing the view so beautifully.
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This is a great shot! Love your description as well!
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I drive by this everyday and have always wanted to take this exact image. Love the story.
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Beautifully conceived and executed, but I think it's dangerous to take photos from the roof of a moving car.
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No, no -- it was perfectly safe. It's obvious from the angle here, and the exposure, that he was riding inside -- driving a Jeep Cherokee with the top down, speed steady at about 55, steering with his knees . . . .
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It is a great picture. The only comment I have is that the church is far from struggling. It has an excellent membership base and is a bright spot in an otherwise dismal area.
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Wow! Breathtaking.
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Just Freeways, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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Nice shot. You have Henry Ford to thank for all of that irony as I'm sure you are well aware. Many of us folks working to ween this country from its auto-dependence feel for Detroit which was where the dominance of the auto began and where the resulting pain is first being felt the hardest.
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emotive. i suggest - www.carfree.com
you might also try -
www.energie-cites.eu/-Projects-
or even a Texas strategy -
www.infinitepower.org/
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I'm rarely on that section of road so I wasn't aware of the interesting juxtaposition of the church and the Renaissance Center. Nicely captured!
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called One of these things is not like the other..., and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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good job...
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Wonderful photos for the world - Please comment on Three (3), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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Great capture!
I like so much that difference between cold tones at the road in foreground, and warm tones at buildings and sky in background...
Lovely!
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Ciao, sono amministratore di un gruppo chiamato Write me!. Ci farebbe piacere aggiungere le tuo foto al gruppo.
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You are invited to add this great photo to the group Travel on 5 Photos a Day.
Please tag photos with "5PhotosaDay".
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nice
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Beautiful.
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Please add your photo to our group, Impressions & Expressions and feel free to join us unless you’ve already done so.
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I've wanted to take this shot for years. You see this composition as you travel down I75 but just for a brief second. Nice job.
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