Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: store

Kalamazoo's Michigan News Agency.

I took a very similar , but monochrome, photograph about three years back. Jimmy's changed the signs in the interim. OpticsPro calls this effect "Old Film."

In the window of Flamingo Island, one of the Old Harbor Village shops. South Haven, Michigan.

Behind About the Home in Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Now part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Glen Haven, Michigan--just like it says on the sign. Another photo taken last February....

Virginia, Minnesota.

This is Hoytville's store, on Mulliken Road, Eaton County, Michigan. As long as I've been aware of it, this has been former store; when I first moved to Mulliken it was functioning as a combined garage/storage shed/playground. It's about the same today, except the children have grown and moved away.

Our town's store changed hands a year or so ago, and now looks quite different both inside and out . Still pretty ugly, though.

Shot while I was buying gas the other day. Not pretty, but certainly colorful. And the only grocery store within a five mile radius of my house. You can't see it in the picture, but there's an excellent garden on the edge of the parking lot. Since this store's on the highway (M-43), it's likely the landmark folks think of when Mulliken comes to mind. Unless they think of Farmer's Tavern, of course. Swede's, in the background, is the place to eat breakfast in Mulliken.

Serafino's never changes. The sign changes regularly, though. Richland, Michigan.

I was a terrible photographer a year ago today. Let's just pretend I did this on purpose, and let it go with that.... For what it's worth, this is Sharp's Supply's store . Some commentary here . The reflected street lamp I posted to 366 Snaps ? Nothing much to say, except that the title--"Reflected Light"--was its best feature. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 24 [virtually all of 'em awful] Title of " roll :" Puddles Other photos taken on 12/2/2012: none.

Still (further) behind on the Outtakes project. Should be able to start catching up, now. We'd just loaded the car and eaten breakfast; it was time to gas up and head home. I'm quite pleased with this pic. ========== The 366 Snaps pic (of the bridge) really speaks for itself. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 36 Title of " roll :" Home from Saint Ignace Other photos taken on 6/18/2012: The last day of our little vacation started with a great sunrise .

Hoytville's a little burg, a mile south of Mulliken, at the corner of Mulliken Road and Saginaw Highway. The town was founded in 1856 (as Centre, apparently). Henry Hoyt's store--I imagine that's the large building in this picture--opened in 1869, and the community was renamed to honor Dr. Hoyt (who was also postmaster at the time) in 1876. I've always assumed Saginaw Highway--an extension of Lansing's Saginaw Street--was the local main road at the time of Hoytville's settlement. Saginaw's a dirt two-lane out this way; the state highway runs parallel a mile north, defining the southern edge of Mulliken (a topic I'm planning to discuss on March eleventh ). In 1888 the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Railroad (CSX, now) laid its tracks a mile and a half north of Hoytville, and apparently many of the town's residents bought land from Ed Potter and moved to the new village of Mulliken. But Hoytville's survived to this day as a small settlement. I posted a similarly-framed--but otherwise very different--photo to 366 Snaps on December 3 . That photo's outtake has more information about the settlement . ========== Last March 7th's 366 Snaps photo was also of Hoytville, as it looks when you approach from the east. (My February 6 outtake is a similar photo.) I've always liked that farm's general look. I notice I tagged the project photo "been wanting to take this photo for years." ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 39 (but see my comments below) Title of " roll :" Village Green & Delta Square-Flowers! [Village Green and Delta Square are apartment complexes where I used to live--that's a different project. and the flowers were the year's first crocuses.] Other photos taken on 3/7/2012: none. but the "project" folder includes many pics that weren't intended for the 366 project.

This one turned out better than I expected.... I knew we'd be heading back to the hospital on February 20th, so I hurried. Shot some rapid-fire sun-and-shadow pics in the house and through the windows, and got a few photos on my trip to Mulliken Thriftway. Under the circumstances the set came out well. ========== Daily 366 Snaps pic: There are a half-dozen or so houses at the south edge of Mulliken on M-43. Most began as small shelters and grew haphazardly--except for the large Italianate place I used for the daily photo. That house, I think, is the largest home in the community. I thought for a while I'd use these interesting structures for a 366-dailies sub-project, but never completed it. One house showed up as my March 3 project photo, and you'll see one or two more amongst the outtakes. Not sure why I lost this thread. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 30 Title of " roll :" Around Mulliken Other photos taken on 2/20/2012: none.

I stop at Mulliken Thriftway nearly every morning to purchase one or two bottles of RC Cola. A side effect is that I take lots of pictures of the store, and of neighboring businesses from the store's parking lot. Jim, the store's current proprietor, has taken what was an ugly building and made it--well, not attractive, but certainly more eye-pleasing This rebuilt entryway is its best feature. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here .

I love this picture--it's got an interesting perspective and absolutely perfect light. I got to the store, saw the opportunity, pulled the camera from my pocket, and took the shot. Then I posted another as my daily.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here .