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Ok, I’ll play this trend…“To all professionals in journalism, film, TV, theatre; Post a pic of yourself on the job. Just a pic, no description. Goal is to flood BlueSky w/our profession. Copy the text & tweet a pic on your page.” 📸 by my fixer w/ @HyoungChang of Denver Post.

A nice @freep.com front page weather feature in today’s Detroit Free Press by apprentice Ari Saperstein 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #photojournalism #journalism #newspapers

“What Up Doe!” Chaz Lanier, a guard who the @detroitpistons.bsky.social selected in 2nd round of ‘25 NBA draft from Tennesee shoots a video for Pistons socials & ended his video saying “What Up Doe” with a smile. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #chazlanier #detroitpistons

Love the way the JJ the bat dog picture story turned out in print in the Sunday @freep.com 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social www.freep.com/story/sports... #uspbl #jjthebatdog #photojournalism #newspapers #journalism

One of the many protesters that came to the Indivisible We The People Dissent rally and protest at Hart Plaza In Detroit on Saturday, July 5, 2025. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #handmaidstale #protest

Joey and I hope you all have a “Happy Stuff Your Mouth with Hot Dogs Day.”

I had a ton of fun w/ JJ the Field General at USPBL for @freep.com story I shot & wrote. Also enjoyed working w/Anntaninna Biondo, one of our pic editors on the color page. I love moving the good puzzle pieces around on a page to see what fits best for the layout 👍🏽😀 #photojournalism #newspapers

Had fun on this 📸 story tinyurl.com/JJthebatdog He’s been the USPBL bat dog since ‘18. With a handler, JJ does everything from taking out the 1st pitch to grabbing bats & delivering flowers to a sweetheart of the game. 📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #jjthebatdog

Just saw F1 the movie in IMAX. Fantastic 👍🏽👍🏽 Worth seeing especially in IMAX if you like an underdog storyline, good sounds, acting & intense racing. The cameras put you in 🏁🏎️💨 like was done for Top Gun: Maverick, same director. I see why it’s made over $160 million over the weekend.

A beautiful rainbow after a bad rainstorm at Jimmy John’s Field in Utica before the Utica Unicorns played the Westside Woolley Mammoths on Friday evening. 📸 by @ericseals of @freep.com

That weird feeling you get deep in your soul when you’re on an elevator with some kind of Pokémon and a Koala Bear at a minor league baseball game. 📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com

Wild that it’s been 10 yrs since Jim Schaefer & I did a trip & adventure of a lifetime for 7 days. We were on the Paul R. Tregurtha, a 1,013 footer, the longest freighter on the Great Lakes for a series of stories as we traveled from one end 🧵

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.