Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: sheds

Near Nashville, Michigan. This barn and farmyard from a different angle .

Another view here .

North of Eaton Rapids, Michigan. I've been wanting to take this photograph for several months, so today I stopped.

Took this pic a year or so ago, but it looks a lot like today.

Or sheds, I suppose. On M-43, near Grand Ledge. The light on these structures is often delightful, and I keep promising myself I'll take more photos of them. But the traffic levels on Grand Ledge Highway are a problem.... Another view , from a few years back.

Over a farm on Cochran Road, Eaton County, Michigan.

Best LARGE , methinks; shows off my fancy camera, anyway. Canadian National Railway's Cory Yard, just south of Billwood Highway near Dimondale and Potterville, Michigan. This location's on my route to work; it's an easy walk from my office. Cory's not an exciting yard, operationally; all the sorting is done at the GM Delta Assembly Plant's loading facility, which is a couple hundred yards north from where I took this photo. This yard's purpose is to break long trains into shorter segments for GM's purposes, then to reassemble the train after the the cars have been filled with small vans. I presume the yard's named after CN Vice President Mike Cory , who was running their Michigan operations when construction of this facility began.

One of these structures was once known as " The World's First All-Steel Barn ." I've a story for that field, too, but not for today. ========== Last December 15's 366 Snaps session was odd and fulfilling. I stopped at the store for my morning RC Cola, then headed out amongst the local farms--Charlotte Highway to Eaton Highway to Gates Road to Saginaw Highway to Dow Road to Grace Highway back to Gates back to Saginaw back to Mulliken (which is the same road as Charlotte), and home. The excursion didn't take me far, but occupied most of an hour. Along the way I shot 32 photographs. About half got messed up--I was still too impatient for the FujiFilm camera--but the other half were keepers. This was the last of the set. A good haul. I'd originally planned to post five images today, none of which were this one, but I've changed m' mind.... ========== The lonely farmhouse photo I posted to 366 Snaps speaks for itself, I think. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 32 Title of " roll :" Roxand mostly Other photos taken on 12/15/2012: none.

'Twas a short photo shoot a year ago. I caught a few pix of a blue jay from our deck, then drove a seven mile loop on local back roads. There were 23 photographs in a few seconds over twenty minutes, according to the time stamps on the first and last images. I figured to take a few pix at a little swamp on Gates Road. Most of the day's captures were there--a goose, some reeds, and a set that included the day's 366 Snaps photo (which is among my favorites, by the way). The photo above was shot on the trip's return leg. There's a tele effect in play in this photo, as these sheds are not nearly as close together, nor as narrow, as they seem. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 23 Title of " roll :" Gates Road Other photos taken on 11/19/2012: none.

Most days I got the 366 Snaps photo done early, and only shot a few pictures. A year ago it didn't work like that. I had an idea for the day 300 photograph for 366 Snaps. I wanted to do a selfie featuring my D300. But I didn't get an acceptable photo. So I shot a few pix of a blue jay , and one or two of the neighbor's cat on the birdbath. Then I hit the road and wandered around the area, photographing barns and houses. These barns are on St. Joe Highway but were photographed from Cochran Road. The house on the corner, which doesn't show in this pic, would burn down a few weeks later. As I said in the caption to that photo, I was hoping the fire was one of these structures. No such luck. ========== The driveway in the 366 Snaps photo is down M-43 a bit, and leads to an attractive farmyard in the middle of a field. In the photo the field's covered with corn stubble; today that same field's all winter wheat, and the field seems a large extension of the farmyard. A neat effect. ========== This photograph is a non-outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 47 Title of " roll :" Birds & Barns Other photos taken on 10/26/2012: none.

Over the course of the year I probably photographed every halfway interesting structure between Mulliken and Grand Ledge. These sheds are about midway between the two towns, and a constant photographic temptation. ========== Never underestimate the value of good light. Last January 18, nearly every photo I took was excellent. Most photographers work within a limited geography. I think of mine as more-or-less concentric areas: * Within the house. * Within the yard. * Within the Village of Mulliken. * The nearby farm country. * Grand Ledge and Portland. * Other local small towns. * Lansing. * Weekends. * Vacations. Since I made a lot of Kalamazoo trips over the year that city and the routes I took to get there became another set of subjects, but normally they're rather like weekend shots. This isn't the only way I divide my photographic universe. I'll likely discuss this again. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 22 Title of " roll :" Mostly GL Other photos taken on 1/18/2012: none.

Bought my breakfast at Sophia's in Grand Ledge a year ago, with a vague plan to get a photo on my way home. Took a few pics at the island park, most of which I probably didn't intend as black & whites , then headed home. These barns--one's actually a collapsed corn crib, I think--are close to Grand Ledge. In fact, I've posted a photo of them before , some years back. I imagine there used to be a home at this location, but the farmer now lives across the street in a very attractive ranch house. But I didn't use any of the GL pix. Since Joan and I are serious readers, our upstairs room is full of books and magazines. The house is small, so I sell on eBay and Amazon just to clear room on our shelves. The photo I posted to 366 Snaps documented the sales prep effort. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 26 (but see my comments about Second Island, above) Title of " roll :" GL & around home Other photos taken on 1/9/2012: 6 color photos for the auction using the D300.

This farm's near Grand Ledge on M-43. Somehow I've never taken a photo I really liked of these buildings. Last January 3 I wandered into GL on an errand, and nearly every photo I shot that day was taken during that trip. They were, on the whole, just awful. Some days are photographic disasters. Y' get color today because this photo doesn't work well in monochrome. ========== The project photo was the first photo I posted with the to-be-recurring trellis theme, although our trellis isn't actually shown (and, as we've seen, I'd already taken at least one earlier trellis pic). I imagine I'll have more to say about this later. This was the day I started thinking of doing a photo-a-day, by the way. If you read the tags I put on the next few project pics, you'll see I was skeptical about my ability to follow through. ========== The Sony DSC-H55 actually shoots only in color. While this may seem to handicap a monochrome photographer, it's not significantly different from shooting black & white pics with a DSLR (or any film camera, for that matter). You do see the potential-photograph in color, but a mental translation makes appropriate adjustments. Then you use software to make similar adjustments on the computer. Although it didn't work out for this specific photo, I've rarely found it to be a problem. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 15 (mostly terrible) Title of "roll:" Miscellany Other photos taken on 1/3/2012: none