Last week I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to co-present a paper at an academic conference and spend a little time exploring in the region. I only had parts of three days away from the conference, but thanks to some planning, I was able to accomplish more than I anticipated.

As regular followers of my flickr stream know, since January I have been producing environmental video for the Kartemquin Films documentary Almost There. The film follows an 82-year-old artist who lives in the Northwestern Indiana region, and my goal was to provide a sense of the landscape in relation to his important life events.

The news about Detroit's bankruptcy broke as I finished packing the car for the four hour drive across Michigan. We weren't visiting Detroit to cover its bankruptcy and didn't seek out the choreographed events looping through the headlines. Other than bumping into a press conference complete with half a dozen news vans and plenty of grey and blue suits, there was little to even suggest the announcement had been made.

Last week I returned to Buffalo, New York for the Society of Architectural Historians' annual meeting. As usual, I took advantage of the combination of arriving early and a little free time to explore the city. While my last trip was primarily dedicated to photographing the great buildings of the city's expansion era, I had greater latitude this time around.

With Detroit's pending emergency manager likely addressing the city's failing streetlight system, and business groups funding streetlights on their own, I thought it was time to post an excerpt of a project on which I've been working since 2009.

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• David recently organized two panels for the National Preservation Conference in Indianapolis and will be presenting with Danielle Wallace at the American Society of Criminology's annual meeting in Atlanta.
• A selection from David's Isolated Building Studies is included in the DePaul Art Museum's Histories/Photographies exhibition, opening October 11.
• Photographs from David's Plan for Transformation series are featured in the new interactive documentary from The New York Times and the National Film Board of Canada, "A Short History of the Highrise."
• The Huffington Post Arts & Culture section featured a selection of David's photographs of Detroit at night.
• "The Area," a documentary short based on David's work in a Chicago community being displaced by a rail yard expansion is now online. Read more about it through Chicago Public Radio or Chicago magazine.
• David has started shooting environmental footage for the Kartemquin Films project Almost There.
• David's photographs of the icy aftermath of a Chicago warehouse fire are making their way around the web.
• David will be showing photographs of The Bloomingdale in a new group exhibition, Reframing Ruin: A Prelude to the Bloomingdale Trail.
• David will be presenting at TEDxIndianapolis on October 26.
• The Bloomingdale, David's project about a former rail line in Chicago, Illinois, will be showing at Comfort Station in Chicago from July 20-August 26.
• The Atlantic Cities featured three Midwestern sites from David's collaboration with historian Michael Carriere about community engagement. Salon previously featured the Milwaukee portion of the work.
• David received a grant from the Driehaus Foundation to photograph 100 Chicago buildings scheduled for demolition in 2012. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich recently featured the project.
• David's Isolated Building Studies exhibition will open in the Belfast Photo Festival on August 4 and remain public until 2014.