Rambling...
As Rod Steward is fond of saying, "every picture tells a story" and the truth may be better put is a picture tells many stories. Some images are intend to tell scientific story of realism, while others may take the soap box for a moral stand. Ether way and some cases both, the goal will be to share the thoughts and emotion of the photographer involved in the making of the image to invoke though t and imagery on the behalf of the view.
The Bus
is one of the strongest images in my entire collection. It was taken on a
winter day on some back street of Detroit while I was searching out old churches
for another
 photographic project. One could not help but think of Rosa Park's
when looking at this sight and wonder back to when I sat in her seat on the now
famous bus which is at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. The cross in the
foreground also grabbed my interest when composing the shot, no clue of it's
intention other then adding strong symbolism to the scene. Because of it's
overall symbolic weight, a day doesn't pass where this image doesn't cross my
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The Corporate Ladder
is another strong symbolic vision that grows in strength every day. A near
vertical looking view of the former General Motors world headquarters
 located on
West Grand Boulevard in Detroit. The rungs of floors symbolize a ladder rising
though Corporate America. In the full images cracks can be seen in the
structure showing wear with age and growing imperfection. Even the mighty grow
old in time and nothing lasts forever including General Motors. This image was
taken long before their current troubles, however I hark back to this image on a
regular basis when I think of the once might giant and it's fight for life...
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The Giant Sleeps
in a small church cemetery guarded by an iron gate, Henry Ford the first rests
just outside of Dearborn Michigan. While I lack the personal regard for Henry
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