Photograph by Brett Carlsen for The Post-Standard  |  Cedrick Desjardins takes his place in the Syracuse Crunch goal before the start of the game.  The Syracuse Crunch won the game 5-2, finishing out a four game sweep of Springfield.  |  Canon EOS-1D X  EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM at 110mm  ISO 1250 1/160 at f/2.8

Photograph by Brett Carlsen for The Post-Standard  |  Mike Angelidis (right) of Syracuse gives Jonathan Audy-Marchessault of Springfield an earful after a scrum around the net.  The Syracuse Crunch host the Springfield Falcons in game 4 of the Calder Cup Eastern Conference Semifinal.  |  Canon EOS-1D X  EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM at 168mm  ISO 2000 1/1000 at f/2.8

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform at RIT’s Gordon Field House in Henrietta, New York (a suburb of Rochester, New York).  Photoset available for licensing and purchase on Photoshelter .  |  Canon EOS-1D X  EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM at 200mm  ISO 6400 1/320 at f/2.8

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  East Side.  Flint, Michigan.  |  Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF35mm f/1.4L USM  ISO 100 1/200 at f/2.0

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  Leshia Drankwine, 49 of Flint, has been working as a seamstress here for over three years and was made full time in January, “not too many people willing to give a convicted felon a second chance”.  St. Lukes N.E.W. Life Center is home to a small employer of seamstresses that work to create scrubs and other items for the community using workers that were formerly in prison or other programs.  |  Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF35mm f/1.4L USM  ISO 100 1/60 at f/2.0

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  Jeremy Whitcome.  Flint, Michigan 2013.  | Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF85mm f/1.2L II USM  ISO 100 1/400 at f/1.2

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  Willie McClure Jr. 19, hugs a congreagation member after it was announced he was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship.  Word of Life Christian Church holds a service at their house of Worship in Flint, Michigan.  |  Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF35mm f/1.4L USM  ISO 200 1/250 at f/2.8

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  The now vacant area that was home to Buick City, a sprawling General Motors manufacturing facility.  |  Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM  at 70mm  ISO 100 1/160 at f/5.6

Photographs by Brett Carlsen  |  Members of the organization “Be The Church” work to clean and board up abandoned homes in troubled Flint neighborhoods.  The group is formed from many churches in and outside of Flint, using hundreds of volunteers.  |  Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM at 24mm  ISO 100 1/125 at f/5.6

Photograph by Brett Carlsen  |  ”No Good” fires up a blunt before starting to make a beat in a makeshift hotel room recording studio.  |  Canon EOS 5D Mark III  EF35mm f/1.4L USM  ISO 1250 1/200 at f/2.0