RHH's photos with the keyword: pier

This was taken as we waited for moonset in Holland State Park on Lake Michigan. The lighthouse is known as Big Red but the green color comes from the light on the north pier across the channel (see inset photo). We did not actually see moonset because they closed the park and the moon had gone behind the clouds on the horizon.

This is the north light and north pier along the channel that connects Lake Michigan with Lake Macatawa in Holland State Park in Michigan. We were there to photograph the sunset and the moonset with the larger lighthouse on the south pier.

This is where I was Thursday evening. A friend and I went out to photograph the sunset and the setting moon in Holland State Park on Lake Michigan. We were on the north side of the channel that connects Lake Michigan to Lake Macatawa and the lighthouse on the south side of the channel, known as Big Red, was our main subject. So this is Big Red with the crescent moon still high in the sky, the sunset still with a good amount of color and several boats coming into the channel.

The lighthouse, known as Big Red, is on the channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Macatawa in Holland State Park in Michigan. This is the lighthouse at sunset.

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.

Big Red is on the south pier at Holland State Park in Michigan. We were in Michigan visiting family and went out one evening to the state park where our son and daughter-in-law were camping.

This is the north breakwater at Holland State Park in Michigan at sunset. The water in the great lakes is very high and while it used to be possible to walk out to the end of the breakwater or the pier on the other side of the channel, it is too dangerous at present.

Rockport State Park on Lake Huron includes an old limestone quarry and a deep water protected harbor once used to load ships. This is the old pier at Rockport, now a place for scuba divers and fossil collectors.

This is part of the old pier at Rockport, Michigan, on Lake Huron where ships were loaded with limestone from the quarry there.

This is part of the old pier at Rockport, Michigan, on Lake Huron, where some of the largest ships to sail the Great Lakes were loaded with limestone from the quarry in the background. Now a state park it is a favorite spot for scuba divers.

This is the old pier at Rockport, Michigan, where huge ships were loaded with limestone from a nearby quarry.

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.