It was a real blast. We made some new friends and took lots of pictures. Learned a lot too, with various photographers sharing their work, showing off their gear, giving lectures, demonstrations, etc. I put up a few shots from the trip in my Work in Progress folder. There are also a few in the Group Shoots folder.
I’m really looking forward to next year’s event!
Went back out shooting with Yves and Romain Saturday one last time before their 9pm flight. We made it into the Packard Plant.
Here’s the group shot from Thursday - http://www.jeffbannow.com/gallery/v/groupshoots/P1030100.jpg.html
and here are some shots from the meeting on Friday - http://www.jeffbannow.com/gallery/v/groupshoots/030808/
I took the day off work yesterday to drive Yves and Romain around town. They flew in from Paris to photograph the abandoned buildings of Detroit. Bernadette came along as well. We went into St. Margaret Mary Catholic School and the Bob-Lo Building, and photographed the recently burned down MacMillan Elementary School. Photos soon to come.
Went out yesterday with some of the group and shot at the old Fisher Body 21 plant. It was great - most of the windows were intact, and the old paint spray area was still mostly together as well. Look for pictures from the shoot in the gallery in the near future.
Yesterday some of us went down to shoot in the old Detroit Public Schools Book Depository. Residing next to the old Michigan Central Station, it previously was a postal sorting station or some such. A while back the Detroit Public school district used the building to store textbooks and other materials. I guess someone forgot about the place, and now the roof is caving in, all the windows are broken, water leaks everywhere, and vandals and vagrants have lit fire to many of those soaked, forgotten textbooks.
I will have some photos from the shoot posted in the next few weeks. In the mean time, the group photo is up - http://www.jeffbannow.com/gallery/v/groupshoots/022608/
