Highlight (or Lowlight?) of the Detroit Auto Show
This past week was the start of the annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and along with the new cars and thousands of reporters, photographers, and other media types who flocked to it—myself included—the show also saw the frenzied tours by all three of the top Republican Presidential candidates. I was already dog-tired after two full days of shooting the auto show’s media preview events Monday night when we were told to be ready to catch Republican candidates around 5pm.
What ensued was probably the most ridiculous and out of control media scrum circus I have ever been involved with…. Mobs of hundreds of reporters, video and still photographers, sound boom operators and campaign entourage formed huge living blobs of flashing lights and shuffling feet, with all of us trying to get shots of the candidates, backpeddling, all the while attempting not to bang into the sparkling (expensive) new cars around the Cobo Hall show floor. Funniest moment was when Romney and Hucklebee came to within 20 feet of each other in the GM display and the massive media mob around the two men momentarily merged into one.
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 Joe Lieberman showed up first to stump for John McCain |
 One of the few moments I didn’t have to hail-mary my shots above a scrum |
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I really appreciated the technique of camera-on-monopod in being able to get shots like these… plus the monopod does a great job of keeping other press jockeys from getting in your way. |
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This reminded me of Dukakis in a Tank….. |
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Hucklebee, the family man, checks out a Hummer. |
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Hucklebee in the left corner, Romney in the upper right, FIGHT! |
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Who’s really running for President here? VP? |
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Way to pander to your non-existent Black vote John |
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Haha look at Leiberman trying to fits-bump! |
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Senators drive? Themselves? |
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McCain shows his age… |
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Leiberman cracked me up… looka him yaking away on the cell |
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I was really expecting more aggressive Secret Service protection for these guys, but we were basically in their faces…. I had to really try hard not to fall and collapse into them. |
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I don’t know why McCain didn’t turn around here and try and greet some of those blue-collar unit carpenters there working on the General Motors display. |
