Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: 1-10-fav

Traverse City, Michigan.

Explored #219 (5/26/2013). Thanks! Grand Traverse Bay, from the Boathouse . The Boathouse is easily the most expensive restaurant we "frequent"--we eat there once each year, on Joan's birthday. The food rivals the view....

Explored! #54 [July 22, 2007] Thanks! Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This photo looks "the other way" from the Lake of the Clouds overlook in the Porkies. We're looking down at the river from overhead . The drop at this point is only a couple hundred feet or so; along the Escarpment Trail the drop gets higher and the dropoff gets steeper, as the map at the link shows. (What doesn't show is that Joel's deathly afraid of heights.) We hiked along the Escarpment on Wednesday afternoon and I'll doubtless share some other pictures in the near future.

Fishtown in Winter.... Another, more direct, photo of fishing boat Janice Sue, docked at Fishtown in Leland, Michigan. Although this is a brand-new photograph, it's pretty easy to find century-old photographs which don't look much different from this (for instance, inside Leland's Bluebird restaurant). Fishtown's a really remarkable place. Things change, over the years, but not enough that you notice.

Explored! #260 on Friday, September 21, 2007. Thanks! At the Sleeping Bear Lifesaving Station. The tracks made it simpler to get the boats from the boathouse to the water. That's Joan, of course. Another picture from our trip north in late February.

Explored! #224 [October 7, 2013] Thanks! Another photo from the 1978 Spring Valley Road Series, hosted by the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club at Spring Valley Park. Taken with my Minolta Zoom 110 SLR. I was definitely under the influence of Robert F. George, whose wife Barbara was the publisher of VeloNews at the time; Bob liked to focus on a specific rider to show the pack's motion. Think I captured that well, despite the limitations of the camera.

Photographer: Martin Sernstinger, developed (at Michigan News) June 8, 1955. Explored! #56 on Flickr [July 6, 2007.] Thanks! My father--Roger Dinda--is on the left in this photo. The guy in the middle is Fred Stone, and I'm not sure who the other is; since Dad & Stoney were off-duty firemen, I presume the other guy was as well [Sam Garrison, it turns out; see my brother's Flickr comment ]. Dad was a firefighter when I was young, and considered himself still a firefighter until he died. On his off-days, he held other jobs. The fallback job--this one--was called "driving hacks." Or just "hacking." The photo was taken on Michigan Avenue (still called Main Street in 1955, methinks) in Kalamazoo, in front of the cab stand beside Michigan News Agency. The official-looking building across the road is the Kalamazoo County Building, which still looks about the same; on the other hand, Michigan Avenue's been a One Way road for most of my life. Michigan News still stocks comic books, which was the attraction when I was a kid. Good place to buy maps, too. Since the picture dates from 1955, it's over fifty years old. Mom had us digging through boxes of old photos shortly before she died. This one was the best of a stash of Sernstinger pix which had mostly obvious firefighting connections. Dad was a little chubby, I see.... New scan uploaded 12/30/05.

Strange Highway (really!), four miles or so south of my home in Mulliken, Michigan. Despite my doubts about the weather, I managed to capture a couple more shots of fall color yesterday. ==================== Farm Aid borrowed this photo for their front page .... And Peter Anthony 's using it for a book cover. Original (uncropped, unprocessed) photograph is here .

Explored! #184 on Friday, January 18, 2008. Thanks! Both the taconite processing plant and the F9 (Covered Wagon) are apparently functional, but unused, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. This photo posted just to make my brother jealous.... We're back from vacation. More tomorrow.

All dressed up; no place to go.... Leaving Nam, 1971: A bunch of strangers, and a few friends, waiting for the Freedom Bird to take us home to the States. In my experience, Cam Ranh Bay was sand, cheap shacks, and lots of G.I.s. My Vietnam near-year started at Cam Ranh on January 30; it ended at the same post on December 15. One of my very favorite pictures. Camera: Minolta SR-T 101. Updated to newer scan 11/27/05. Unfortunately, both the only existing print and the negative are damaged beyond my ability to fully repair them. Added to Cream of the Crop as my (current) personal favorite picture 1/8/06. Explored #22 (7/23/2007) on Flickr. Thanks, everyone!