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Mainstreet-1

This is the corner of Sixth Street and Commercial Ave with the latter serving as Cairo's main street. Commercial is the street to the right going off into the distance. The point of the photo is to illustrate the Cairo's downtown is now mostly a collection of vacant lots interspersed with a few crumbling buildings. Thirty years ago, buildings crowded against one another all along this corridor with not a vacant lot to be seen. So much can change in three decades, though the seeds of this city's destruction had already been sown well before the 70's. Commercial Avenue now only provides an ironic commentary on Cairo, as there IS no commerce on Commercial Avenue.

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Taken on: May 17, 2013
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Camera: Nikon D5100, f/8.0, 1/500 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D5100
Lens: 18.0-250.0 mm f/3.5-6.3
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length: 18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
ISO: 320
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Manual
Light Source: Shade
Contrast: High
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)
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