On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:15:46 -0400, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Few realize that the Detroit suburbs are chock full of lakes and trees. > The image of downtown casts the entire area in unfortunate tones of > gray and black. In truth, the metropolitan area is one of the most > beautiful of any large city. Here's a shot of Sylvan Lake at sunset. I > grabbed this on the way back from shooting my wakeboarding series. It's > less than 15 miles from the city limits. There are hundreds of lakes > within 25 miles of the city center. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2791439 > Paul >
That's a beautiful, serene photograph, Paul. It always amazes me that so many stark urban areas are so close to such beauty. I was in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada's "Steeltown") the other day. It has a huge natural harbour. Near the mouth of that harbour is two steel mills, spewing smoke, with heaps of crap all around the place, huge rusted freighters docked nearby. It looks like a horrendous nightmare scene. Yet, go past the mills and the docs, and the inner harbour is beautiful, verdant and pristine. It appears untouched by humans. I wouldn't swim in the water, though. <vbg> Anyway, lovely photo, Paul. Sunsets may be cliches, but if they are, a beautiful one is still beautiful! <g> thanks, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
