James Bullough

I took this photo during my last trip to Detroit in the Eastern Market area of the city.  They have a ton of amazing murals in this area that are done as part of their annual graffiti festival.  This area is worth a visit if you appreciate good street art.

This mural was done by James Bullough.  Bullough is an American born artist who lives and works in Berlin Germany.  The sun was a little to harsh when I took this photo, but I didn’t have benefit of waiting until the light changed.

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Detroit Art

I found this mural inside an abandoned church in Detroit.  It’s not what I would paint or where I would paint it, assuming I could paint, but I can appreciate the artist’s skill.  I don’t know this for sure, but I assume this painting is personal to the artist, which makes it even better from my perspective.  So I’ll just call it what it is…. Great art completed in an unusual place.

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Eastern Market

Every time I go to Detroit to capture some urbex photos, I stop by Eastern Market.  I love this area of Detroit.  They’ve converted in into this hip area with cool shops, artist galleries and a huge farmer’s market.  There are still working ware houses and old factory buildings.  They’ve paid amazing graffiti artist from around the world to come paint these huge murals.  They even have a graffiti festival every year to celebrate these great artists and unveil new paintings.  This big mural is at the entrance to this area.   

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Elephant Octopus

The Wynwood Walls area of Miami is so cool.  As you know from my past picture of this area, the city converted this abandoned area into an artist display exhibit.  There are now a ton of amazing murals created by the best graffiti artists in the world.  They rotate topnotch artists so that it is always changing.  If you visit it again down the road, the murals (graffiti) will be changed. 

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Wynwood Walls

Amzie Adams

While MJ and I where walking down Frenchman Street, just outside the French Quarter area of New Orleans, we ran into Amzie Adams twice.  When we passed him the first time, I told MJ that I needed to get his portrait.  So when I saw him a second time, I didn’t miss the opportunity.  Thankfully, Mr. Adams quickly agreed and let me take a few photos.  It turns out he is an artist and musician who has been a fixture of the French Quarter since the 1960s.  You can check out his website here: www.amzieadams.com

By the way, we found Frenchman Street to be a pretty cool place within the city with all kinds of cool bars….. Not that I was out late at any time.  MJ and I were tucked into our hotel room fairly early each night after spending almost all day outside in the sun. 

New Graffiti - Old School

A couple of days ago I posted a picture of a funky statue on the north shore of Pittsburgh.  Tonight, I am just in a funk myself.  I don’t know why.  I had a great weekend with old friends, ran a half marathon, got to see the sun, etc…  Generally life is good, I just seemed to be undecided about which picture to post tonight, whether I even wanted to post a picture, etc…   Nothing serious, maybe I’m just feeling lazy tonight. 

Well whatever it is, I’ll post a picture for you anyway.  Tonight is a picture from within an abandoned school in the East Liberty area of Pittsburgh.  The building is falling apart, but has been repurposed as a homeless shelter and street artist gallery.   As you can see, the walls are falling apart, but this specific artist found some wall space for his work.

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Yellowstone National Park - Artist Point

A few years ago, MJ and I had a great trip to Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.  We traveled by rental care over the course of a week visiting a ton of great locations.  The highlight of the week was probably Yellowstone National Park.  There are just so many great things in this park, it is a MUST see. 

Tonight’s picture is from Artist Point within Yellowstone National Park.  This is a single exposure taken handheld, which I tonemapped later.   I hope you enjoy it.

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