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Patricia Lay-Dorsey | all galleries >> my photo-a-day archives >> 2008 photo-a-day galleries >> photo-a-day March 2008 > my new "Detroit, for real" gallery is up
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25-MAR-2008

my new "Detroit, for real" gallery is up

This photo is one of the images in my new "Detroit, for real" gallery. CLICK HERE to see it.

I didn't know how to introduce my new gallery. Although I have chosen to focus on some of Detroit's poorer areas, I hope I'm not perpetuating the stereotypes that have built up around this city I love. But I am committed to showing it as it is, as best I can anyway. One word that always comes to mind when I describe Detroit is the word, "real." Detroit is real. What you see is what you get. It's wounds are obvious, often more obvious than its gifts. But it seems to me that I have spent my sixteen months on PBase showing you many of these gifts. Now it is time to round out the picture.

Canon EOS 40D
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1105191226-Mar-2008 00:25
Viewers with a keen eye will notice the illustrations on the building are of Tupac, on the left and Biggie Smalls on the right.
parallaxes aka Jean-Pierre Bijouard25-Mar-2008 23:06
Great street shot ; V
Cindi Smith25-Mar-2008 21:55
Well seen and shot! Love this shot! Cities are not always about beauty but about the real people and things that go on on an everyday basis. Captured well!
Guest 25-Mar-2008 20:43
I always like to see the other side of town, as some call it..this is a terrific find..v
Jean-Luc Rollier25-Mar-2008 09:24
I love this "atmosphère"!JL V
Paco López25-Mar-2008 06:54
Excellent!!!! BV!
Russ Rose25-Mar-2008 05:34
Patricia,

This is the Detroit that I have heard. But then most US cities have taken this form over the last 50 years. It could be Detroit, Cleveland, LA, Seattle, the south or new england. As the manufacturing has left the cities have decayed. I have seen the same thing in little logging towns. I have lived near Cleveland, in Worcester, MA, Denver, LA, Olympia, and in little logging communities. (over a 60 plus year time frame.)

I am working on a new gallery titled "My Olympia" where I am showing the positive things that I see. (I have a tendency to describe things realistically and I am trying to put a positive light on life.) The images come from several years of wondering around. I'll let you know when it is up.

Russ
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