Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: pole

West of Woodland, Michigan.

On the telephone pole in our front yard. Wasn't so long ago that linesmen used spiked boots to climb these poles; I suspect this is damage from such an occasion. Nowadays they use cherry pickers to reach the lines. Can't say I blame 'em.

A Cooper's Hawk, I'm pretty sure. Sitting on our telephone pole, watching our bird feeders.

A year ago I had an idea, but not for a specific photograph. For several years I usually bicycled to work, then hit the road for some miles after I got off the clock. This isolated pine marked the far corner of one of my usual routes, and is an old friend. Thirty or so years later it's changed less than you'd think. ========== On Sundays the Mulliken Thriftway opens late, and I often head to Sunfield to buy my morning RC Cola. A year ago I wandered south on Sunfield Road looking for photo ops, then turned left when the road ended. About a mile along I found my pic. The 366 Snaps photo was only unexpected in the sense that I had no particular photo in mind. In many ways it's like my "typical" farm picture--a focal point a ways out, lots of "clutter" to give the photo depth, and excellent focus. (Except, of course, it's not a farm.) It was just what I wanted that day, but in an unforeseen guise. I knew immediately it would be the daily pic. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 15 Title of " roll :" Sunfield for Soda [Soda? What got into me?] Other photos taken on 6/10/2012: The garden was glorious . And I took 175 photographs of the baby raccoon .

The building beyond the PO was Forrest Meier's barber shop for well over five decades. Just wanted to mention that. I picked up my mail last March 13 and wandered behind the Main Street buildings to shoot a few pix of the tracks and trackside structures. Then I circled back to Main. This photo could be considered a complement to my Creative Taxidermy pic from January 7 --I was at the same location, but facing west instead of east. Then I crossed the street and caught the Farmer's Tavern Coca-Cola sign photograph that got posted to 366 Snaps . That sign tells a lot about Roger and Sandy Sain, who own the restaurant--and an antique business on the side. By the way, I'd photographed the sign before , with my (then) brand new Nikon D300. And before that , with the D70. Farmer's Steakhouse is endlessly photogenic . ========== I bought the D300 late in 2007. It was a significant upgrade from my D70, and the learning curve was pretty steep. Eighteen months later I was taking decent photos but was often fighting with the camera. At that point I took a rather long sabbatical from serious photography (not the camera's fault; my job turned unusually chaotic and my hobbies suffered). In mid-2010, when I resumed my photography habit, using the camera came easy. I can list several reasons for that--the break helped, as did the prior experience, and my attitude had changed for causes unrelated to either. Another reason was my then-new 16-85 mm VR lens. I love this lens. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 17 Title of " roll :" Downtown Mulliken Other photos taken on 3/13/2012: none.