Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: restaurant

Swede's Restaurant, Mulliken, Michigan.

We ate at Lansing Mall's new Lone Star Steak House to celebrate Joan's birthday. Decent food (we both had prime rib with garlicky potatoes), good service, and a really impressive room. And an old friend. The gentleman standing in this photo is Tommy, who often waited on us at another, now-defunct, restaurant. Good to see him. All in all, though, I'd rather have been in Traverse City, our usual birthday haunt.

The entrance to Farmer's Tavern (or Steak House), Mulliken, Michigan's, downtown restaurant.

At Trattoria Stella , in the old Traverse City Asylum--now known as The Village at Grand Traverse Commons. They served an excellent supper, which we of course enjoyed.

An excellent restaurant on Bowers Harbor, Mission Point, north of Traverse City. Fine food, but take lots of money.

Why we stay at South Haven's Old Harbor Inn....

South Haven's Old Harbor Inn probably dates from the 1980s, but it's designed to look older. The hotel lives in four separate buildings, arranged around this little alleyway of commercial storefronts. 40 or so very different rooms are scattered around the place. Those that face a boardwalk or the street have outside doors, while the upper-level rooms are up stairways. (Wheelchair accommodations are not a strength, here, though I expect some of the rooms are accessible.) All the guest rooms in the buildings to the right in this photo overlook South Haven's harbor, which is the hotel's best feature. Downtown South Haven's excellent restaurant selection is a couple blocks away, and it's about a half-mile to the beach. A great location. It's quaint, but there's a catch. There are two nightclubs in the complex. The one at the end of this road, named York's Landing, runs year-round. The other, a seasonal operation called Magnolia Grille, lives on a riverboat and is just a few feet off the alley. This nightclub density is, obviously, not a problem for everyone. And since our stays have been off-season we've not had to deal with the riverboat partiers. But the place does have a reputation for rowdiness during the summer. In fact, the hotel's invoice warned us about it. Our room--straight up from where I shot the picture--is probably far enough from the action that we'd not have been bothered. The rooms that directly face the riverboat, on the other hand, can only be attractive to folks who've come for the party. That said: The Inn's a fine hotel, and we've been pleased with the rooms and the service. The location cannot be beat. A similar view , seven years ago.

Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Fine dining in Cheboygan, Michigan.

This Harbor Springs, Michigan, restaurant has apparently been in business since 1904 . I presume that means it's good, but we needed to be somewhere else and didn't try it out. Maybe next time we're in the Petoskey area we'll put it on the agenda. Neat old building, regardless. Dunno why all the red cars....

Go there for the food. But the atmosphere's quite remarkable.

* "Where you live?" * "Mulliken." * "I was there once. Ate at Farmer's Tavern."

My town's tourist attraction.

Downtown Mulliken's restaurant, also known as Farmer's Steakhouse. As you might guess from this photo, the atmosphere's part of the attraction. Effect: Corel AfterShot Pro's Bleach Bypass.

Not a fancy place, but the food's decent.

St. Ignace, Michigan.

I like my Chrysler 200. It's an excellent car. But it's not a Mustang. ========== Most of last July 13's photographs for the 366 Snaps project were taken in downtown Mulliken, and most of those were taken on the village common. It's surprisingly difficult to get usable photographs of playground equipment. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 24 Title of " roll :" Downtown Mulliken Other photos taken on 7/13/2012: none.

Still behind. It may take a few days to catch up. All of the 366 Snaps photos for last June 17 were taken at Bentley's, where we ate breakfast. It's fairly dark in the B-N-L, and I only took 7 photographs. This was not just the best; it's really the only acceptable image. So here it is again, processed differently. A year ago I processed it (in Bibble Pro--now available as Corel Aftershot Pro) according to my then-current practice of imitating Ilford film printed on Kentmere Art De Luxe using the Andrea plugin. Today's version was more directly processed using Bibble's built-in tool set. Both, as usual, were then sharpened in Photoshop Elements. One side effect of the daily photo project was that I learned Bibble's toolset. For much of the year this gain largely showed as increasingly sophisticated use of the product's Andrea plugin, but by the year's end I was mostly using the program's "native" tools. This set is limited--Photoshop Elements is a far more capable program--but for most photographs I've found it adequate. What's more, the program's design makes it nearly impossible for your to destroy the original photo by accidentally overwriting it with a modified version. And Bibble's an excellent product for sorting through a lot of photographs (that's what I originally purchased it for), and for applying the same processing to a group of photos quickly. ========== This photograph is an outtake (well, actually an alternate treatment) from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 7 Title of " roll :" Bentley's Other photos taken on 6/17/2012: Joan and I spent much of the day wandering around Sault Ste Marie, where I shot nearly 300 pix. After supper we visited the Tern colony; I took well over a thousand mostly-lousy pix.