Calori & Vanden-Eynden,  one of the worlds leading firms in the field of signage design, asked me to photograph their newly installed Woodward Tribute in the fall of 2008.

The 30 foot tall solar powered glass tower is internally illuminated by LEDs. The controls and storage battery are housed in the concrete base. While CV&E needed both daylight and night photographs, we knew that the hero shots would be the twilight photos.  To prevent the base of the tribute from going too dark I used a wireless trigger to release the shutter and fired flash units by hand during the long (up to 60 seconds) exposures.

The plan was to install 26 tributes, each one mile apart, along the length of Woodward Avenue from downtown Detroit to Pontiac. The economic train wreck of 2009 has temporarily derailed that idea. Hopefully the plan will get back on track as the economy improves.