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I’ve been a Detroit Free Press photojournalist for over 25 amazing years 📸 [email protected]. http://ericseals.com. Mizzou Made ‘93 🐯
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Bryan Dulsky, owner of Detroit Steeplejack, works at painting the spire at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plymouth on June 12, 2025. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #steeplejack www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Happy National Take Your Dog to Work Day. 🐶 Wish I could take Baxter or our other dog Bella on assignments with me, people would enjoy either of them. www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

Ok Facebook, weird but funny at the same time 😆 Opened the app on my iPhone & see this ad for Meta AI w/ a pic of me by Dan Powers when covering track & field at the ‘16 Olympics in Rio. I can’t tell if that’s from a Renaissance festival or I’m a matador ready to fight a bull.

A great way to start #FathersDay My kids did a nice breakfast in bed, nice cards, a new book on F1 great @lewishamiltonbr.bsky.social 🏁🏎️ & a new pair of AirPods. Going bowling later then playing board games, watching Canadian Grand Prix, a Lewis win please?🙏🏾, then dinner & a movie 😀

Over 3,000 people came to Clark Park in #Detroit to rally & then marched down Michigan Ave towards the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building where ICE is located during the national No Kings protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #NoKingsProtest

Fun day working w/ our Freep 📸 intern Finn Gomez at the No Kings protest in Detroit today. Made sure this was his for good experience & I mainly flew my drone, did a little shooting. Loved his hustle, enthusiasm & energy! 👍🏽😀 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #photojournalism

I'm obsessed w/ Nikon F3HP since I saw 1 last week. Made me want to buy 1 on eBay. Found old pic of ‘89 me at @themaneater.bsky.social (Mizzou student newspaper) w/ my F3 & 85/1.4 lens. Still the most tack sharp lens I've ever owned. #nikon #nikonf3 #nikonf3hp #journalism #mizzou

A fun time at Michigan State covering ‘25 MHSAA Division 1 Boys Golf Finals at Forest Akers in East Lansing on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Ian Masih from Okemos won the individual championship w/ Detroit CC winning the team championship. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com

Dogs have it easy. Bella & Baxter’s nap time. I looked it up & read dogs sleep 12 to 14 hours a day. What a life they lead 🐶 📸 by Rhonda Seals (yep, it’s that easy to do a photo credit on social media…if you know you know 😂) #dogs #doglife #naptime

For a split second while scrolling on Twitter, I saw this tweet & did a double take. Seeing @canonusa.bsky.social name & w/ them having all black cameras & lenses aside from the 70-200 & the way the woman is looking as if she’s shooting, I wondered what new camera they came out with 😂

Had a ton of fun on #BelleIsle & at the Detroit Yacht Club 📸’ing many classic @Chrysler cars during their historical vehicle ride & drive event for the media on 6/4/25 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #cars #automoblies #chrysler

Saw this beautiful #Nikon F3 HP w/ an 85mm lens while on assignment today & had drool coming out of my mouth 😂 It was the 1st camera I saved up for cutting lawns in the summer of ‘88. I need to go on eBay & buy one for memory sake, they can be bought for $340 & up.

Me all distorted (or maybe I actually look this way? 😂) in the reflection on the back of a 1934 Chrysler Airflow Sedan during a Chrysler historical vehicle ride & drive event. Was on a @freep.com assignment at the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle in Detroit on Wednesday, 6/4/25

Two guys out enjoying the weather with a cool breeze at the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle with views of the Detroit River, the MacArthur Bridge and the downtown Detroit skyline on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #detroit #belleisle @puremichigan1.bsky.social

Yep! Just one sip of Sprite+Tea told me everything I needed to know… Yuck! A friend of Rhonda’s gave this to her, she hates tea so offered it to me. The plus side? At least in Michigan we’ll get 10 cents out of it with the bottle return 😂 #sprite #spritetea

Holding long glass this way? Seek help immediately from the nearest professional photographer on the sidelines 😉 You’ll be told to hold bottom of the lens w/left palm of your hand for better support. Better yet you’ll be told to invest in a good monopod even if you have 💪🏽

A couple of days at Mackinac Island with the pups. Going to be fun seeing them experience many new things especially those horse drawn carriages.

An early 1900’s #Kodak camera my cousin got at a garage sale in Hilton Head. It belonged to her 85 yr old neighbor whose parents had it way back then. So old I’ve opened it twice & would be afraid to put film through it if they even make A-120 Autographic film anymore.

“Stone Sentinels” perfect headline & loved how Sunday Freep pic page ended up looking. Fun times 📸’ing gargoyles, etc. Nice collaborating w/ @melaniemaxwell.bsky.social on edit & design as we worked w/ my puzzle pieces then good dialogue for best results. 📸’s by @ericseals of @freep.com

Sometimes, they’re ugly. Sometimes, they’re angelic. Sometimes, “grotesque” can be the most appropriate word for them. I had fun shooting & writing this gargoyles & statues in Metro Detroit. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com

Got a cool surprise in the mail 📸 Someone from Japan sent these Nikon mini cameras to me. You didn’t leave a card telling me who it was from but thank you so much! 👏🏽 📸 by @ericseals #Nikon #nikoncamera #photography

When in Mexicantown if you can’t get Evie’s tamales you at least must get an assortment of amazing bakery items from Mexicantown Bakery. You’ll spend forever inside trying to decide with all that they have. #mexicantown #mexican

I’d love to have a few #Nikon mini cameras from Japanese vending machines, on sale now in US at Gashapon stores listed here -> us.gashapon.jp/shop/ More info @petapixel.bsky.social petapixel.com/.../nikons-ven… 📸 by @jaronschneider. #Nikon #camera

“This Is The Way.” Not an iPhone in sight, just golf fans seeing a great moment, Rory McIlroy winning The Masters w/ their own eyes just like the good old days. Your move Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals & any concert in the US aside from your daughters violin performance 😉

A picture of former & current @freep.com journalists last night for the induction of former journalists, Daymon Hartley, Kirt Dozier, David Zeman, Keith Owens & Alex Cruden. Also a pic of some current former Freepster photojournalists to honor Daymon.

I love driving around & being stopped in my tracks when I see classic old school cars in Metro Detroit like this 1952 @GM #PontiacChieftain that I saw today. The owner does an incredible job taking care of it keeping it so pristine. Even the inside smelled like old leather.

Someone is ready for a puppy nap and his name is Baxter. #corgipom #yawning

The signs of protest as over 6,000 people from Metro Detroit marched on Saturday, April 5, 2025 in midtown & downtown during the nationwide “Hands Off” protest against President Trump’s administration agenda & policies. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com

A brat on #DetroitTigers Opening Day tastes better when you’re outside the ballpark all day roaming around doing features & people having a good time. Brandon Lee, owner of BJ’s Soul Food & Catering in Fraser was grilling for friends while tailgating. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com.

With blue skies, a sunny 51 degrees at Comerica Park, people tailgate & enjoy another Opening Day for the Detroit @tigers.bsky.social as they face the Chicago White Sox on Friday, April 4, 2025. 📸 ‘s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #detroittigers #baseball @mlb.com #openingday

Some of the Rawlings baseballs that make up a map of America inside the Tiger Club at Comerica Park in Detroit the day before Detroit @tigers.bsky.social opening day. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of the @freep.com #baseball #rawlings

The door from a home that exploded in Southgate on Thursday, 4/3/25 rests where it landed 50 yards away from the home. The explosion injured 2 who were taken to a hospital. Other homes had blown out windows, debris in streets & hanging from trees. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com

The best way to have one of those massage beds you’d find at a cheap “pay the hour” motel is having 2 dogs in bed w/ you during a big thunderstorm. Bella & Baxter are shaking like crazy as we watch the Detroit Pistons tonight. Poor things! Booms shaking the house isn’t helping.

SE Mich Aquarium Society had their 2nd tropical fish auction at a church in Allen Park on 3/29/25 to raise money. A big variety of 🐠 were up for auction from a black skirt tetra to an electric blue Ahil & many other kinds of fish. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com

I can’t believe it’s been 25 years, almost to the day, that I shot this moment for @freep.com of a young Tom Izzo & Mateen Cleaves during @cbssportscbb.bsky.social “One Shining Moment” when Michigan State beat Florida during the tournament in Indy on April 4, 2000. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social.