Cloverdale Lake

In one of Colin Fletcher's books he breaks his camera and discovers that not-taking-photographs alters the way he looks at the world. The converse is just as true: If you're shooting photographs every day, eventually everything you look at becomes a photo opportunity, boxed in an imaginary frame. On the whole I consider this an unpleasant side effect....

Cloverdale's a small town, surrounded by lakes, on M-43 in Barry County. (I've told this before, better, here.) The town's been part of my mental geography since the early 1970s, when we lived in nearby Delton; these days it's one of a half-dozen hamlets I pass through travelling between Mulliken and Kalamazoo. Since I'd been driving that route several times a week for the past few months, I'd pretty well scoped out the photo possibilities.

So I stopped in the little park on Cloverdale Lake a year ago to capture a few photographs, mostly of the lake and the building I call the Painted Pony.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 9
Title of "roll:" Cloverdale
Other photos taken on 10/5/2012: As usual I brought along the Nikon 1, and used it mostly to capture autumn's color....