@danette Oh it's quite safe - there is this alley right downtown that is routinely covered in graffiti, hence is even called "Graffiti Alley". There is a lot of media coverage for this place - they even have their own Facebook "page" as a local attraction. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Graffiti-Alley/145190478890223
Are you going to be living there? I'm there occasionally - next time in November. Lots of our friends on Beaver Island are from Ann Arbor (though 15 years on faculty at MSU, my loyalty lies toward green and white). Great capture that tells a story. Love the graffiti covered walls.
Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments! We were just passing by this place, and I had my camera in my hand, making it ready (having read the "103 things I learned about street photography" by Eric Kim just the night before, where he noted that in doubt, set the ISO to 1600 and camera in the P mode to be ready for some street shots). Even before I had time to adjust it, I saw the guys and snapped.
But... after coming home and actually looking at the shot, I felt a bit like a cheat after I realised it's the Graffiti Alley - there are so many photo-takes on that piece of the city that it's kind of a canonic shot by now to take a picture of someone doing something against that background. Especially, when the Michael Jackson street dancer comes to perform there: http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2011/09/brianwoolridge-thumb-590x391-89164.jpg
September 3rd, 2016
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Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments! We were just passing by this place, and I had my camera in my hand, making it ready (having read the "103 things I learned about street photography" by Eric Kim just the night before, where he noted that in doubt, set the ISO to 1600 and camera in the P mode to be ready for some street shots). Even before I had time to adjust it, I saw the guys and snapped.
But... after coming home and actually looking at the shot, I felt a bit like a cheat after I realised it's the Graffiti Alley - there are so many photo-takes on that piece of the city that it's kind of a canonic shot by now to take a picture of someone doing something against that background. Especially, when the Michael Jackson street dancer comes to perform there: http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2011/09/brianwoolridge-thumb-590x391-89164.jpg