RHH's photos with the keyword: grand haven

This was the sunset the night I went out recently with my brother and a friend to Grand Haven State Park in Michigan. There are often fishermen on the piers, usually fishing for Lake Perch, something I can remember doing many years ago with my grandfather.

The city of Grand Haven, Michigan, is at the mouth of the Grand River where the river flows into Lake Michigan. The channel into the lake is bordered by two piers both of which have lights. The green light at the right of the photo is on the end of the north pier. The two red lights are at the end of the south pier and are in Grand Haven State Park. When we were in Michigan recently I did not have much time to do photography but did get out one evening with my brother and friend to see the sunset at the pier.

These are a few more photos from an excursion to Grand Haven, Michigan, with my youngest brother. It was a wet, cold and windy night but when the lights on the pier's catwalk came on we forgot our discomfort. In this photo I waited until the lights on both lighthouses, inner and outer, were shining in my direction and tried, too, to catch the reflections on the lights in the wet surface of the pier. The pier and lighthouses have been turned over to the city of Grand Haven by the US government and the catwalk with its lights have been recently restored and relit.

Taken on the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. The pier guards the channel that leads from Lake Michigan to Spring Lake.

The catwalk on the pier at Grand Haven, Michigan, was recently restored and the catwalk lights are on once again. The catwalk was built to allow the lighthouse keepers to reach the lighthouses on the pier in stormy weather. They are no longer needed for that purpose but are a major attraction in Grand Haven.

This is the iron catwalk on the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. It was recently restored and the city had a dedication and relighting ceremony to celebrate. The catwalk was originally built to allow the lighthouse keepers to reach the lighthouses in stormy weather.

This is the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. It's catwalk with its lights has recently been restored and a dedication was held while we were in Michigan though we were unable to attend.

I had two opportunities to go out with my youngest brother to do photography when we were in Michigan recently. This was taken on the second excursion, a miserable evening, cold and rainy. Grand Haven, a city on Lake Michigan, has two piers, north and south that mark the ends of the channel that leads to Spring Lake. We first walked the north pier, just visible with its green light, and then drove to the south pier and walked it. We were ready to pack up for the evening when the lights on the catwalk came on and gave us a reason to stay. Grand Haven was deeded the lighthouses and pier by the US government and started a project to restore the catwalk and lighthouses. The restoration of the catwalk was recently finished and a lighting ceremony held. The catwalk was used by lighthouse keepers to reach the lighthouses in bad weather. We've seen ice on the pier to the height of the catwalk and waves as high as the outer light, so the catwalk certainly was necessary. The project to restore the lighthouses is on-going and the lights are not open to the public, though the pier is.

This is the south pier in Grand Haven, Michigan. The photo was taken on a wet, cold and windy evening but we thought the excursion worthwhile when the lights on the newly restored catwalk came on and spent some time walking to the end of the pier and pack for photos.

The city of Grand Haven is on Lake Michigan and on Silver Lake which empties through a channel into Lake Michigan. It has two piers which define the channel, this the south pier. The catwalk and lights were recently restored and we were able to get photos of them when in Michigan recently, though the evening was cold, windy and wet.

This is the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. The two piers, north and south define the channel which leads from Spring Lake to Lake Michigan. The catwalk and lights on the south pier were recently restored and were photographed on an excursion with my youngest brother in spite of wet, windy and cold weather.

While in Michigan recently I had the opportunity to do some photography with my youngest brother. One of our excursions was to Grand Haven. Grand Haven lies where the Grand River and Spring Lake empty into Lake Michigan. There are piers on both sides of the channel at Grand Haven and both have lighthouses. In fact, the south pier has two lighthouses, the one shown here the outer of the two. The photo was taken from the North Pier and one of the insets shows the small light on the end of that pier. The other insets are of the inner lighthouse on the south pier, taken on a different occasion and another photo of the outer lighthouse.

This is the light the north pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. With the two lighthouses on the south pier it marks the channel to Spring Lake and the Grand River.

This is another photo of the outer lighthouse at Grand Haven Michigan. There are two lighthouses on the south pier and one small light on the north pier, marking the channel to Spring Lake.

This was the best I did with astral photography the night I was out in Grand Haven with my brother Tim. This is the Inner Lighthouse on the South Pier in Grand Haven State Park in Michigan, where the Grand River empties into Lake Michigan.

This is the Outer Lighthouse on the South Pier in Grand Haven, Michigan, where the Grand River empties into Lake Michigan. I was there with my brother to photograph the sunset and do some astral photography.

This is one of two lighthouses, the inner lighthouse on the south pier in Grand Haven State Park, Michigan. The bright "star" is Jupiter. My brother Tim and I were there to photograph the sunset and do some astral photography.

Grand Haven is on the Grand River where it flows into Lake Michigan and the channel is part of a state park. This photo was taken from the north pier and shows the south pier with its lighthouses. We had gone out to the pier to photograph the sunset and do some astral photography. The sunset was great, the astral photography a bust since the moon was too bright.