I love Detroit's Fisher Building with its ornate, Art Deco architecture. I've visited this building billed as "Detroit's largest art object" in the past, taking a few snapshots with my point-and-shoot camera, and I've blogged about the building and its history.
I even posted a few of those snap shots to one of Debbie's Photo Fridays a couple of years ago.
But when our local Photowalks Detroit group scheduled a shoot at the Fisher Building earlier this month, I eagerly signed up so I could try making some more images with my DSLR and better lenses.
The lighting is always tricky at the building, so I hoped having a little patience and taking a lot of images would result in getting at least a few decent images this time!
See more of my images from the Photowalks Detroit shoot at my Fisher Building Photowalk 2011 set.
Be sure to check out the Photowalks Detroit Flickr photo pool or the Photowalks Detroit Facebook page to see some great photos and learn more about the group and its photowalk events.
You can also check out Art Deco in Detroit by Rebecca Binno Savage and Greg Kowalski to learn more about the Fisher Building and some of Detroit's other great Art Deco gems.
Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.
© Dominique King 2011 All rights reserved
WOW! These photos are outrageous! I especially love the second one of the arches. Art Deco is my favorite architectural art style.
I recently visited Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Stop by my blog, MANICinTheCity.com, and check it out. Thanks a lot!
Posted by: MANICinTheCity | January 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Great job! Those are fabulous shots!
Posted by: Sonja | January 14, 2011 at 01:48 PM
ooohh, I especially love that last one. It's all a bit gloomy, Gotham-city like.
Posted by: Carolina | January 14, 2011 at 06:56 PM
Manic-Nice blog you have. I've always wanted to visit Sagrada Familia myself!
Sonja-Thanks! It was nice to have the time to really think about taking photos at the photowalk.
Carolina-I sure wish I could figure out how I got that effect. It was a grab shot, and I didn't take any others at that point because it looked like a loser in the preview. But I liked it when I got it home and loaded it onto the computer.
Posted by: Dominique King | January 15, 2011 at 09:50 AM
Fantastic. I'm having a hard time deciding whether the first or second photo is my favorite.
Posted by: gypsyscarlett | January 16, 2011 at 02:18 AM
Gypsy-I had a difficult time picking these three photos from my Flickr stream of about 30 images...which came from probably around 200 images shot that day! That is the nice thing about digital...you can take a -lot- of shots without worrying about developing costs, so you have plenty of chances to get something decent :)
It really is a beautiful building!
Posted by: Dominique King | January 16, 2011 at 02:19 PM