Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: bench

Kalamazoo, Michigan. Just trying to capture the "look and feel" of the park this morning.

At the Soo Locks.

Behind About the Home in Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Augusta, Michigan.

The garden we planted last spring. The bluebird's a sculpture/ornament, not a real bird. Photographs can distort reality, despite folks claims to the contrary. This photo makes the garden look far more densely-packed than it actually is; it will be a couple years before we're fully satisfied with the arrangement. On the other hand we only lost one plant over the winter; we've replaced that.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens, University of Michigan.

The Roxand Township fire station's door, with an appropriate memorial.

Our picnic table may need a repaint....

Here's a very different treatment of the Bronson Hospital park bench photo I posted a year ago as part of my 366 Snaps project. The bench offers a shaded place to escape from the nurses and interruptions and general boredom. But not the worries. Besides, it looks like a place from a fantasy tale. As I noted earlier , this was the first photo I seriously reworked using Bibble Pro's built-in tools. This version's been cropped, desaturated a bit, and had the Black slider pushed way off to the right. Plus some lesser-impact stuff. (The B/W version features tricks to push the contrast up....) (As usual, I did the final sharpening and the frame in Photoshop Elements.)

Downtown Mulliken. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for July 13 .

As I've explained before , Mulliken's library was/is one of my default photo subjects. Besides the convenience of its next-to-the-post-office location, I find this apparently-plain building's a fun photo subject. ========== The FujiFilm F200EXR was designed to be good at low-light photography. A year ago I devoted 36 images to testing that thesis, with mixed results. A few of the results were interesting , but few were very good. The best were taken downtown. The 366 Snaps picture was of the Masonic Temple's door, with the corner of the fire station in the foreground. I thought it worked pretty well. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 36 Title of " roll :" Home & Downtown Other photos taken on 4/3/2012: I was still playing with the Nikon 1. For some reason I shot a whole lot of pix of a tufted titmouse using the 10-30 lens. That mostly didn't work out, but I did get this .

The Library's next door to the post office, so I shot lots of pictures there last year as a side effect of borrowing its parking slots. This pic--with real and fake snowflakes--is about as good as I'd manage. You can expect to see more.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here .