Joel Dinda's photos

Lacking a dog, we walked on without one. Sign at Michigan Audubon's Baker Sanctuary.

...Ramirez. For Jules, & Em. West Michigan @ Lansing, 090505. Din't say no more baseball. Just no more endless strings of pitcher pictures ....

Explored! #224 [October 7, 2013] Thanks! Another photo from the 1978 Spring Valley Road Series, hosted by the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club at Spring Valley Park. Taken with my Minolta Zoom 110 SLR. I was definitely under the influence of Robert F. George, whose wife Barbara was the publisher of VeloNews at the time; Bob liked to focus on a specific rider to show the pack's motion. Think I captured that well, despite the limitations of the camera.

Here's the bow of the Louis R. Desmarais. That scrape's pretty dramatic. As I mentioned a couple days ago , this ship's been seriously rebuilt; the bow now looks quite different. & she's now called CSL Laurentian. St. Clair River, Port Huron, Michigan, June, 1999. Sarnia, Ontario, in the background.

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rock Falls, Illinois. My sister was intern pastor here for most of the past year.

Also Joan, reflected in the window.... Camera: Olympus Stylus 410 Photo by Joan Bennett

Best large. Michigan Audubon's Baker Sanctuary, on the Marsh & Meadows Trail.

Michigan Audubon's Baker Sanctuary, on the Marsh & Meadows Trail. Looks better LARGE!

Michigan Audubon's Baker Sanctuary, on the Marsh & Meadows Trail.

Our front yard. I was going to tell you a story, but I've decided not to....

Better large. Mountain Iron, Minnesota, has a viewing tower which overlooks the Mountain Iron, Minnesota Taconite (MinnTac), and Wacotah mines. Mountain Iron was the original Mesabi Range mine. MinnTac was perhaps the last great mine on The Range. Wacotah, as you can see, has become a rather pretty lake. And there's an amazing amount of gear in this picture. Shot August, 1992, with a panoramic point-n-shoot.

Fortunately, when they built the parking lot they had the good sense to preserve this tree.

CSL's Louis R. Desmarais--now known as CSL Laurentian --northbound on the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Michigan, in June of 1999. The old Blue Water Bridge is in the background, and the new bridge is under construction just to the north. Yes, she was bright red. There's enough paint scraped off that hull to cover a small house. Mine, for instance. The name change was concurrent with a major rebuild; Laurentian has a very different bow, and hardly looks like the same ship. I liked this version better, but my opinion really doesn't matter. Shot with my Nikon N90s.

This one's abandoned, and less than a mile from the house in the previous photo. A very photogenic place; looks like it was a neat home.

Another bike-by shooting from one of my regular routes.

There's some sort of large construction project going on at the harbor in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. These folks were doing some of the work the day we were there. Photo shot from the deck of SS Badger.

Isn't she pretty? Found this on my camera when I freed the accumlated photographs yesterday....

A century ago there was a 600-soul logging town in western Pennsylvania called Loleta. The loggers left in 1913; twenty years later the Civilian Conservation Corps rebuilt the dam and turned the townsite into a campground. Loleta campground is now part of the Allegheny National Forest. This trail beckons. Photo taken in July of 1997 with my Nikon N90s.