Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: museum

South Haven Maritime Museum. Camera: Olympus Camedia C50 Photo by Joel Dinda

Hartwick Pines State Park, Michigan. Camera: Argus C3 Photo by Roger Dinda

Well, sort of. This was his home when he lived in Ann Arbor, but after he moved away, Henry Ford purchased it, and moved it to Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Pretty place. Photo taken in the fall of 1988. Scanned from a slide.

The Glen Haven Canning Company; once a cherry packing firm owned by D.H. Day, now a delightful boating museum on Sleeping Bear Bay. Part of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.

Auburns, Cords, and Duesenbergs--perhaps the finest of American automobiles--were built in the factory behind this showroom until the marques collectively failed around the start of World War II. The factory's now a very fine museum. This photo, of a pair of Cord automobiles, was taken early in 1999 with my Nikon N90s. I'm afraid that the ACD Museum's website, though pretty, is a bit of a disappointment. Despite that, I heartily recommend the museum; it's a fascinating place with truly delightful automobiles. It's in Auburn, Indiana; just follow the signs from I-69. Graphic Converter was used to improve this photograph.

Ironworld Museum, Chisholm, Minnesota, 1990.

I tend to vacation in mining areas.... Cliffs Shaft Mine, in Ishpeming, was perhaps the most important of all Michigan iron mines. There were a few mines which shipped more ore, but this was the first great Marquette Range mine, and it was an important producer for decades. Now a museum, and definitely worth the stop. Our guide was a retired Cleveland Cliffs engineer, and most informative. To me, the most interesting thing he said was that he doesn't believe the Negaunee/Ishpeming mines will ever reopen, despite significant remaining deep-underground deposits, because the economics seem unlikely ever to justify the effort. I've heard other opinions from apparently-knowledgable people, but this guy seemed to have impeccable credentials.

Explored! #171 on Flickr [February 9, 2008] Thanks! Your classic postcard shot of the delightful light at Eagle Harbor, on Lake Superior in Michigan's Copper Country. Now a museum of local history, and well worth the visit. Yes, I pushed the color a bit. The light is still functioning.

Port Huron, Michigan. With the Blue Water Bridges in the background.

Meteor, long a museum and permanently parked at Barkers Island in Superior, seen from a Duluth-Superior Harbor Tour circa 1990. Scanned from a slide, likely taken with a Minolta point-n-shoot.

Museum ship in Duluth, Minnesota; photo taken in August of 1988. Posting this today largely because this ship is not the Irvin.

In June of 1981, Debbie was kind enough to deliver me back to my summer job assigning freshmen to rooms. We took the long way around, following the south shore of Lake Superior from end to end and doing some other exploring. When our trip brought us to this old ship, I got pretty excited.... This is the last surviving whaleback laker , a tanker named Meteor. She was built as the Frank Rockefeller in 1896; later she was known as South Park before becoming Meteor in 1942. She was an active ship until 1969, and has been functioning as a museum in Superior, Wisconsin, since 1972. I hear she's deteriorating and may not last much longer. Should that happen I'll miss her. Taken during a harbor tour out of Duluth, approximately 1990.

Cobia, on display at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. The local shipbuilders constructed 28 subs during World War II; although this particular sub was built in Connecticut, it's of the same family as the Manitowoc ships. Moreover, Cobia was stationed in Milwaukee for about a decade (National Guard work), so there is a genuine Wisconsin connection. The only other time I was in Manitowoc was the day the sub was first opened for public display, back in (I think) 1986. That was just accidental. For the record: This is among the finest museums I've visited, on any subject, in any place. Easily justifies a visit to Manitowoc. Shot from SS Badger.

When I first discovered the tiny, delightful Lake O' depot, sometime in the 1980s, it lived downtown and was dwarfed by nearby grain silos. I can't find any pix of those silos, but here's what the depot looked like for its first century . Around 1990 CSX sold it to the local historical society, who moved it about a mile north of the tracks and turned it into a museum. It looks far better these days, but the nearby fairgrounds just ain't the Pere Marquette mainline. Can't have everything. Regardless, it's still cute and a photogenic treasure. ========== This day marked a change in my photo-processing workflow. I've mentioned once or twice that my software converts black & white NEF (Nikon's RAW format) files back to their color originals, which rather defeats the purpose of the camera setting. To this point in the 366 Snaps project, I'd been sorting through those "color" "negatives" to decide which photo to turn back to B&W; beginning with the July 2 batch the first step in my processing workflow was to convert every photo in the folder (back) to monochrome. The details would change--I'll likely mention this again--but this became my normal practice for the rest of the project. Once again: Monochrome is partly an attitude. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 18 Title of " roll :" Lake Odessa Depot [every one of 'em] Other photos taken on 7/2/2012: none.