Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: village

There's a third settlement--besides Mulliken and Hoytville--on Mulliken Road. Gresham's got this excellent church, and a few houses, huddled at a corner out in the middle of nowhere. ========== Always take insurance shots, because not all ideas succeed. Had a plan for a 366 Snaps photo a year ago, but it didn't work out. I'd followed a buggy down the road a few days before, which reminded me that we've Amish neighbors. So I went looking for an "Amish" photograph. No luck. I found a couple good photo opportunities at the school, but I was still fighting with the camera and the results were poor. So my project pic became one of the insurance shots, of the Gresham church. Here's another. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 37 Title of " roll :" Around Gresham, mostly Other photos taken on 12/4/2012: none.

Two views of Hoytville. These are an example of my shoot-reframe-refocus-shoot photography habit. Here, too, are two versions of the same photo. The only difference between this and the 366 Snaps photo is the processing. ========== This photograph is a non-outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for November 22 .

Two views of Hoytville. These are an example of my shoot-reframe-refocus-shoot photography habit. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for November 22 .

Grand Portage National Monument, on Lake Superior in far northern Minnesota. Like the Voyageurs, the natives lived in a village outside the stockade. The reconstruction features several quite different lodges, a native garden, and examples of native crafts. One striking thing about the display is that the interpreters are not Native American, despite the monument's location in the midst of a large Indian reservation. I'm told that native interpreters are hired with some regularity, but visitors are prone to insulting them, so they rarely stay more than a few weeks. Sad.

Sunfield's about four miles down the way from Mulliken (Michigan, in both cases). The two towns are about the same size, and both live mostly between the tracks (CSX, these days) and highway M-43. Historically both are grain elevator towns and provided services to local farmers. The biggest physical difference between the villages is that our town spills over to the north of the railroad, while in Sunfield the rails define the town's northern boundry. As this photo shows.

Chester, Michigan. I seem to be out photographing really small towns, this week.

The downtown park--or village green--in Richland, Michigan. I shot this from a moving car, so there are a few issues that I'd have solved given more time and a stationary platform. Nonetheless, this is approximately the photograph I imagined. ========== We celebrated Christmas with my brother and sister last December 24, which meant we drove to Kalamazoo. I took some lousy photographs along the way, then shot a sequence of this park as we passed. After we arrived in Kalamazoo I took a bunch of pix, including several of the cats. Ezekiel, the cat in the 366 Snaps photograph, I've discussed before . ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 62 Title of " roll :" To Kalamazoo Other photos taken on 12/24/2012: I shot the obligatory pix of presents and family members, using my V1. Few were worth the effort.

I'd spent the night in Kalamazoo, and the day's 366 Snaps shots documented my drive home. The weather was abysmal, and the photographs show villages in the rain. Today's weather, for the record, was worse--added ice to the mix. I'd not have driven 70 miles under those conditions. ========== If there's a single photo-a-day project that most influenced mine, it's Vishal Patel's Project 365 , which ended the day before my 366 Snaps began. V and I are very different photographers--he's more formal, more vivid, plans more thoroughly, and is prone to a very different kind of experimentation. But following his photography from day to day was an inspiration. Just wanted to get in this plug as my project winds down. His set's certainly worth a bit of your time. ========== I stopped at Mulliken's Thriftway, as usual, just before I got home, and took the photo I posted to 366 Snaps. It's of Boyer's , but since it was shot through the wet car window the pic's a bit, well, distorted. Jim, who runs the Thriftway, noticed me taking pix, apparently for the first time, and gave me a (mock) hard time about it. This was odd, because I'm always taking photographs from ( and of ) his parking lot. Jim's really in no position to criticize, as I pointed out, since he has sixteen cameras monitoring his small store and grounds. Regardless, the conversation was the highlight of the trip. I was glad to be home. Again, for emphasis: We're friends, and were gaming each other. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 38 Title of " roll :" Wet & Chilly Other photos taken on 12/20/2012: none.

Two views of Hoytville. These are an example of my shoot-reframe-refocus-shoot photography habit. Here, too, are two versions of the same photo. The only difference between this and the 366 Snaps photo is the processing. ========== This photograph is a non-outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for November 22 .

Two views of Hoytville. These are an example of my shoot-reframe-refocus-shoot photography habit. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for November 22 .

This photo could be considered a rehearsal for my November 12 366 Snaps pic . This is Mulliken from M-43, shot more or less from the cemetery entrance. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for August 27 .

When I first moved here, Mulliken's Methodist church shared its minister and ministry with Sebewa, a small place--not really a town--north and west of our village. A year ago today I made a scouting trip--'twas an intentional effort to expand my range of photographic subjects for 366 Snaps . I was a bit surprised to discover that this stretch of Keefer Highway had been paved, since the last time I looked it was gravel. We're probably talking fifteen years, though. Last April 2 was bright , and I was fighting with my still-unfamiliar camera, so virtually all the trip's pix were overexposed. But I found some useful ideas, and would follow up on them later in the year. ========== The railroad tracks I photographed for 366 Snaps are part of the CSX (former C&O/Chessie, former PM) line through central Michigan. The line used to get fairly heavy traffic from both CSX and SOO, originating from Chicago for the Detroit tunnel and on to Toronto. (Or back.) These days the traffic seems to be mostly local. The pic was snapped at Dow Road, which is the Eaton County extension of (Ionia County's) Keefer, a couple miles south of Sebewa. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 34 Title of " roll :" Bright Sunshiny Sebewa Other photos taken on 4/2/2012: As usual, I took the Nikon 1 into the garden. This was the day's best shot .

This photo wouldn't seem to need much description: This is downtown Mulliken, looking east from Ionia Street. ========== Once you get comfortable with a new camera the nature of your experiments change. Nearly everything I shot last February 8 was obviously experimental: Light and shadow contrasts in the house, oddly-framed downtown images, some focus forcing, and many panoramic shots. I rarely shoot panoramas. On this date, I shot a dozen of 'em. On the eighth I posted (for the second time in the 366 Snaps project) a photograph of Creative Taxidermy . As a pano. It was a bit twisted. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 28 (7 of these were from the previous night, of Taffy stealing a drink from Joan's mug) Title of " roll :" Main Street Other photos taken on 2/8/2012: none.

The Village snowplow rests in its barn after an early morning clearing the streets. ========== It snowed overnight a year ago (kinda like today), so after the sun rose I mostly took pictures of the white stuff on streets, sidewalks, and lawns. But the best shot of the day was my early-morning opportunity shot of the Thriftway, all lit up in the snow. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 25 Title of " roll :" Around Mulliken Other photos taken on 1/21/2012: none.