Here is a batch of racing action photos from the recent Formula 1 race. Wow, it was a great weekend. I am very thankful for the media access to cover great events like this. I can’t wait until the next race.
Missing F1
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ready for the 2022 Formula 1 season to start…even though the 2021 season just finished a couple weeks ago. Here are a few photos I took last October at the FIA Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin Texas.
Sebastian Vettel - Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team
Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team
Sergio Perez - Red Bull Racing Honda
Urbex Reflection
Visiting an abandoned building after a heavy rain results in great reflection photos. This one is from an abandoned automotive factory in Detroit.
Detroit Urbe Reflections
Happy Friday night. Here is a 2018 throw back from a Detroit urban exploration photo weekend. I captured this photo upstairs in the Cadillac Stamping plant after it rained hard. I loved the refection of all the plumbing, metal work and industrial machinery.
Fisher Body Plant Graffit
I’ve been to this facility two or three times in the past. It is truly a wonderful explore. This is one of my favorite all time graffiti art works. Maybe not the best done of all time, but I loved the use of the wall and floor.
G Wagon
Last weekend, @teamshutterrush (minus one of our members, who will remain unnamed…..Jake!!!!) was in Pittsburgh filming the third episode for our Shutter Rush series on Amazon Prime. If you haven’t watched the first two episodes, please do and while you’re at it, please rate it a “5”.
Anyway, we conducted an urban vehicle shoot with this G Wagon and a bright red Ford 150. I thought the red Ford was ugly, but I know some people will love it and I have to admit, it really popped in the photos. In addition, we completed some cityscape photography, urban exploration and a special photo shoot that is a top-secret surprise we’ll save for the film. Good stuff!!!! It was great to get out with the team and capture some photos since our last Shutter Rush location was photographed/filmed in early March right before the COVID lock downs.
This was my first professional vehicle photo shoot, which was good fun. I’m not super happy with my edits on the photo below, but it was nice learning how to setup the vehicle, lighting and other vehicle photo tips from @jasonpohuski and I look forward to trying this again….
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Packard Plant
Recently I spent a few days with a group of like-minded urban exploration photographers in Detroit. We didn’t go there for fun, although we had some fun, we went to Detroit to photograph as many sites as possible. This photo is the classic Packard Plant via my drone. You can see much of the abandoned complex in the background.
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Dealership
I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend. I still haven’t recovered from the last few weeks. I need a week of bed rest. But that will have to wait.
Last weekend while I was in northern Michigan, I flew my drone between scuba dives out on Lake Huron. It was a good way to waste time while conducting our mandatory surface intervals.
Today’s post is a picture from a local car dealership at night. I like the patterns, colors and perspective.
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Fisher Body Plant - Assembly Line
We had a great time visiting family in the Detroit area over the Thanksgiving weekend. While we were there, Blair and I made good use of some free time to photograph some abandoned spots.
To my surprise, we were not the only ones with this idea. We hit three spots on Friday morning and ran into others doing the same thing. In fact, when we showed up to the Fisher Body Plant, there were probably 20 other photographers already in the facility.
This photo is from the assembly line on the upper floor. We probably spent a little over an hour in this building, but we could have stayed all day because it is huge.
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What can I say....Blair is quick.
Packard Auto Plant Reflections
Here is another photo from my Detroit Urban Exploration trip. This photo was taken on the 4th floor of this huge plant. I couldn’t even tell you which building, because there are so many of them. One of the buildings is at least 10 continuous city blocks long with lots of wings. Anyway, I know we were on the 4th floor for this shot and I loved the reflections in the standing water. Click here to see another photo from this location: http://brook-ward.com/blog/2014/8/14/detroits-finest
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Detroit’s Finest
I’ve been absent from social media and my blog for a few days. Sorry about that!! Jay Cassidy and I took a quick 3-day trip to Detroit just to photograph abandoned buildings. There is no better place in the world right now for abandoned urban exploration photography. Detroit is THE place for this. We literally spent every waking moment (minus a few meals and travel time to the next site) in abandoned buildings and in graffiti row (Eastern Market). We dodged a few homeless people, security guards and junk.
Jay and I had a great time. We went to Detroit to “work” and I can honestly say, we did. I was seriously tired at the end of every day. But we got into a ton of great places and captured some awesome photos.
This photo was taken inside the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant, which was huge (3.5 million square feet on 40 acres). We spent about 5 hours in this place and probably saw less then 10% of the complex. It is over 10 blocks long with tons of multi-story buildings (most at least 7 stories tall). This is the former automobile-manufacturing factory where luxury Packard cars were made and later Studebakers’. It was opened in 1903 and closed in 1958, although a few other businesses used parts of it until the late 1990s. It’s a great urban exploration site.
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