9/26/2005

Explored! #103 [February 4, 2013] Thanks! Leelanau State Park, Northport, Michigan. Best in large size, methinks. Two more views of this bay.

One of the trails at Michigan's Leelanau State Park leads to a viewing platform which overlooks Lake Michigan. This grape vine's been threatening to claim the platform for its own purposes for several years, now.

I take lots of photos of ducks, mostly because I tend to hang out where ducks hang out. Every now and then I need to post one of those pics. I'd been photographing something else when these birds landed just a few feet from where I was watching. Obviously they're accustomed to having folks just standing around on the hotel's beach.... Traverse City, Michigan.

Explored! # 392 [December 20, 2006] Thanks! From a "wayside" on the west bay.

Our hotel in Traverse City.

Explored! #26 [October 16, 2007] Thanks! Another dramatic photo of Cathead Bay , at Leelanau State Park near the end of Michigan's little finger. Obviously there are other routes to the bay, but we took the park's trail. The view was incredible. Unretouched except that I resized it. It's surprisingly better (in some senses, anyway) in the larger size . Added to Cream of the Crop as my best photo for 2005.

Light and shadows on the trail. What we did for Joan's birthday....

Leelanau State Park, Michigan's little finger. Although this one's my photo, Joan spent the entire hike taking fungus pictures, many of which came out quite well. Mebbe I'll sort through 'em and post a few.

Another Cathead Bay photograph from last September. Leelanau State Park , at the end of Michigan's "little finger." Memorial: Norris Ingells, a photographer whose skills always captivated and delighted me, passed away Friday . I only knew him from his photographs and his writing, but it's a great loss nonetheless. One of Lansing's great treasures. -Added to the www.flickr.com/groups/cotc/ in the morning on December 20, 2005. Explored! #19 on Sunday, July 29, 2007, where it remains. Thanks, everyone!