John T. Greilick

John T. Greilick

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John Greilick is a Detroit News photographer with over 10 years of experience covering Metro Detroit. Greilick specializes in sports photography, but also looks for something unexpected when shooting every day assignments.

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Basketball in a Texas-sized Football Palace

Teams prepare for tonight’s NCAA Men’s basketball South Regional tournament featuring Michigan vs. Kansas at massive Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas, a monument to Dallas Cowboys football.  for the South Regional sweet sixteen games.  Photos taken on March 28, 2013.

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Here's pie in yer Eye

I actually took this diptych a while ago, when Grosse Pointer Mike Caruso was a Boy Scout leader and volunteer to take a pie in the face from every scout who sold enough fund-raiser popcorn.  He was a good sport throughout, taking pie after whipped cream pie in the face and doing so with a … Continue Reading →

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Walking into the Light

Michigan Wolverines guard Tim Hardaway Jr. walks through the tunnel from the locker room in the William Davidson Player Development Center to the court inside Crisler Arena for practice.  After starting the season 16-0, the 7th-ranked Wolverines, coached by John Beilein, need to regroup after recent road losses to Big Ten foes Indiana, Wisconsin and … Continue Reading →

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A Big Hug from the Boss

In this Triptych, University of Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon anticipates, then hug and congratulates first-year head basketball coach Kim Barnes-Arico after the Wolverines notched an emotional 70-69 victory over Michigan State in Ann Arbor on Saturday, February 16, 2013.

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Belle Isle Aquarium x2

In this diptych from the Belle Isle Aquarium (America’s oldest operating aquarium, opened in 1904),  Seven-year-old Carter Langdon of Macomb Township admires a flowerhorn cichlid fish, a variety of fish which no longer exists in the wild. Meanwhile, MSU grad student Ben Kamphuis looks away toward fish in an adjacent tank. In the bottom photo,  … Continue Reading →

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Dreaming of the Open Road

Still photographers and videographers are silohuetted in front of a huge video showing the open road and the Grand Canyon during the presentation of BMW’s new designs during the first media day at the 2013 North American International Auto Show at Cobo Center in Detroit on Monday, January 14, 2013.

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Rising above the Rim

During Michigan’s 16th consecutive victory,  62-47 over Nebraska, freshman Mitch McGary rose to the rim determined to dunk, but alas the ball rang off the rim.

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Things get ugly at RTW protest in Lansing

In this sequence of photos, an IBEW Union member threatens, then punches conservative  Fox News reporter Steven Crowder in the face outside the pro-Right-to-Work tent of Americans for Prosperity.  The anti-Right-to-Work union protestors eventually tore down the tent.  The Huffington Post featured my picture in the following video of the incident

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Road to the Ren Cen

From this view atop the Michigan Children’s Hospital Parking Garage, Beaubien Street appears to lead directly to the Renaissance Center, World Headquarters of General Motors.