Thanks much, Ken. Although I've shot in a lot of places and seen much of Detroit's inner workings, it was still a huge thrill to shoot at the Design Center in the shadow of Eero Saarinen's creations. Paul On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:59 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
> Nice work as usual Paul. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO: My Chevy for the Times > > >> A couple of weeks back I mentioned that I had shot a car at the GM Design >> Center. The car was my ''55 Chevy BelAir Convertible, and i shot it for this >> Sunday's NY Times. The article that the pics accompany is a test drive of >> my car and a tribute to '55 Chevies by Car & Driver editor, Tony Swan. It's >> all part of a Chey 100th anniversary package. Here's a gallery of some of >> the pics I shot and jpegs of the Times pagea: >> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1018508 >> >> I had to do a lot of backlight work to get the GM Design Center in the pics, >> because the only place to shoot was on the north side of the building. But >> it worked out well with some reflectors and flash fill. >> >> The article is on the web as well if anyone is interested. Swan did a nice >> job: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/automobiles/autoreviews/a-fabulously-fifties-way-to-see-the-usa.html?_r=1 >> >> >> >> I also wrote a short and somewhat tongue-in-cheek piece about buying the car >> eleven years ago: >> http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/road-trip-returning-a-55-chevy-bel-air-to-its-detroit-roots/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
