Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: grain

A side effect of feeding birds....

Superior Harbor. Like most of the photos from this cruise, this one had some exposure issues; fixing those made things pretty grainy. I do like the composition, though.

Now a farm market and gathering place . Portland, Michigan.

One last Bibble/Andy experiment with this photo. This time I tried to bring out the clouds, at the expense of other detail. We're imitating Fomapan 100 printed on Agfa's Multicontrast Premium, using filter 4. That filter's doing most of the work. Looks--fairly accurately, actually--like we're approaching sunset. Superior Wisconsin.

The same photo; continuing my Bibble/Andy experiments with a well-composed but ill-exposed photo. This one's as though it was Agfapan 25 (ha! way too grainy) printed on Kodak Portra; I've also made some effort to brighten things up a bit. This brings out detail on the elevator, but costs detail in other places--particularly the clouds in the sky. A look at the map reveals that my lens has dramatically foreshortened the view, hiding the fact that the elevator's at the far end of a deep slip, most of a half-mile away. But the effect's quite dramatic. Superior Harbor, again, of course.

Thought I'd play with Bibble's Andy plugin a little. This one's fairly conventional--imitating Tri-X printed on Agfa Multicontrast paper. Superior, Wisconsin.

Another picture of the granary wall at Joan's dad's place....

Another 1988 photo of the grain elevator complex in Springport, Michigan. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.

One last look at Springport, Michigan's old New York Central depot before we go on our way. 1988. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Springport's depot is, and apparently always was, nestled in the local grain dealer's complex. Here's the first of a couple photos of that complex as it looked in 1988, according to my little Minolta.

Manitowoc, Wisconsin, shot from SS Badger. A Photoshop (Elements) experiment.

Even with half the structures removed, the Mulliken Elevator's an interesting complex of buildings. Never was a big operation, but it's the largest thing in this town.

June 1995: I drove downtown to check the mail after work and noticed this interesting train parked behind the Mulliken Elevator. Grabbed the camera, wasted a roll of film, went home. Joan, who'd just joined the household a few days before, was a little curious about why it took half an hour to check the mail.... Regarding that crane: It's CSX (nee L&N) 41422, built by American Crane and Equipment (they apparently now go by ACECO). Seems to me they were using this big crane for bridge repairs, but it's a distant memory at this point. All the buildings (silos) in this photo are now gone. The siding's still there, but overgrown and mostly unused.... Camera: Chinon Genesis III

Down the end of our street, in 1995, from when the town still made some pretense of supporting the neighboring farmers. No longer. Much of this complex has long-since been dismantled; what remains has been repurposed.

Mulliken, Michigan; at the end of my street. Now functioning as something other than a grain elevator. I miss the long lines of tractors, trucks, and trailers that used to take over our town at planting and harvest.

That's Yosemite across the way at Sarnia; shot from Port Huron, of course.

At the north end of downtown Grand Ledge. The elevator's abandoned, now, but the oldest structures on the lot evidently date from the 1870s. This operation became obsolete when ADM built a rather larger grain plant a couple miles away. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for December 14 .