Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: office

Two stories today.... Last year I listened to my entire CD collection. The main object was to hear everything; a lesser-but-important goal was to cull about a third of the albums and sell 'em on Amazon. Two years ago I owned 750 or so compact disks and they were scattered randomly all over the office. I'm now down to about 500 disks, with about two thirds of those in these racks and the others in decent order. My main 366 Snaps photo idea a year ago was more or less this pic. Capturing what I could see turned out to be more difficult than I'd expected, and I ended up taking many pix from a variety of angles. Then I went with my fallback. This is not my complete music collection. I've many recordings in a variety of formats. I still need to figure out what to do with those... ========== My fallback photo was of the Denny Baxter & Lew Chamberlin bobblehead, which lives (well, lived) on this rack. That became the 366 Snaps image. There are many reasons to own a minor league baseball team, most of which I consider legitimate. My favorite owners, though, risked their fortune to bring a team to their home town. Denny & Lew, who own the West Michigan Whitecaps, fit that model. It turned out, too, that they were singularly good at running a minor league franchise, and the team's prospered. These are people I admire. I generally avoid bobblehead giveaways. This bobble I wanted. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 48 Title of " roll :" CD Rack Other photos taken on 11/26/2012: none.

A picture to illustrate a blog posting . I kept a messy office. In case you didn't know....

Another work photograph.

Two versions of this photo. I like both, for different reasons. A recognizably Albert Kahn design at the edge of downtown Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The Horner Mill complex produced wool products for many years. These buildings (there are several in the complex) are now available for redevelopment. There's a website .

This was Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's home in Sault Ste. Marie from 1826 to 1833. From here he ran the Indian agency for much of the Northwest Territory. It was moved to its current location in 1979, which is roughly when I first saw the building. The Wikipedia link, above, is worth reading; the building's had quite a history....

The lighthouse keeper at Forty Mile Point had a little office in the tower, just below the light, where he did the apparently-voluminous paperwork required by his bosses. Only a workable solution in such a wide tower, I'd think. Near Rogers City, Michigan.

Now with a salt shed in the background!

Our generally ugly office building has a fairly attractive lobby. (Thanks, Heidi.)

You may have noticed the wood piles in yesterday's Springport photograph . Those were on the property of Love's Sawmill; for the next few days we'll be exploring that facility as it looked in 1988. As is often the case, this sawmill's a little raggedy. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

We call it G.O.B. Michigan's Secondary Governmental Complex, near Dimondale, is afflicted with generically-named buildings.... Shot from the Secretary of State Building's parking lot ( see? ), across a corner of the game preserve.

The office building for the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad at Two Harbors, Minnesota. The Two Harbors ore docks are running off to the left.... Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Tom Friggens, long the State of Michigan's chief U.P. historian, likes to point out that Fayette was never fully abandoned and therefore not an actual ghost town. That fact, more than anything else, explains the town's survival. One of the striking things about Fayette is the century-old wooden buildings. That the large stone blast furnace survived isn't really surprising, nor is the persistence of the ruined company store. Those are sturdy structures. But Fayette's surrounded by Lake Michigan, and Lake Michigan's weather is pretty hostile to wooden construction. The hotel really couldn't be more exposed, and the nearby town hall and this office structure are nearly as defenseless. Moreover, several of the wooden houses, which are in the woods and enjoy better protection, have been reduced to their stone foundations. The answer is tourists. Soon after Jackson Iron abandoned the town, entrepreneurs turned the place into a vacation destination. Snail Shell Harbor is simply beautiful , and the not-yet-ruined blast furnace gave the "ghost town" an ambiance unlike anywhere else on Lake Michigan's shore. The salt box houses survived as vacation homes, the hotel as a hotel, this office as an office, and the town hall as an auditorium. Other, less useful, buildings were not maintained and fell to the weather's pounding. This photo also dates from our 1981 visit. At that time the buildings really were around a century old; now they're older.

What was once the office of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; it's now home to the Keweenaw National Historical Park. Calumet, Michigan.

Not pretty. Barely functional PO boxes. Great staff, though.

Two stories today.... Last year I listened to my entire CD collection. The main object was to hear everything; a lesser-but-important goal was to cull about a third of the albums and sell 'em on Amazon. Two years ago I owned 750 or so compact disks and they were scattered randomly all over the office. I'm now down to about 500 disks, with about two thirds of those in these racks and the others in decent order. My main 366 Snaps photo idea a year ago was more or less this pic. Capturing what I could see turned out to be more difficult than I'd expected, and I ended up taking many pix from a variety of angles. Then I went with my fallback. This is not my complete music collection. I've many recordings in a variety of formats. I still need to figure out what to do with those... ========== My fallback photo was of the Denny Baxter & Lew Chamberlin bobblehead, which lives (well, lived) on this rack. That became the 366 Snaps image. There are many reasons to own a minor league baseball team, most of which I consider legitimate. My favorite owners, though, risked their fortune to bring a team to their home town. Denny & Lew, who own the West Michigan Whitecaps, fit that model. It turned out, too, that they were singularly good at running a minor league franchise, and the team's prospered. These are people I admire. I generally avoid bobblehead giveaways. This bobble I wanted. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 48 Title of " roll :" CD Rack Other photos taken on 11/26/2012: none.

Before becoming a civil servant I worked for several years as an occasionally-paid Democratic Party staffer. In that role I organized a campaign event for Dick Austin in 1974. This building was renamed to honor Richard Austin in 2006. Prior to that it was called the Treasury Building. Secretary Austin was my boss for more than half of my state government career--not directly, of course, but our department reported to Michigan's Secretary of State, not to Michigan's Governor. But even before that Austin was an inspiration. Here's the original of the photo I posted to 366 Snaps last February 21. Last year I put a frame around it to soften the sharp-edged image. There's something about the downtown government complex that annoys me--these forty-some-year-old buildings still look more like architect's drawings than places designed for workers. ========== By late February I'd gotten pretty comfortable using the phone as a camera. A doctor's appointment had me downtown on this date, so I arrived a bit early and spent an hour shooting pictures. And remembering my first days in Lansing . Most of the photographs turned out well. ========== This photograph is an alternate version from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 23 Title of " roll :" Downtown Lansing Other photos taken on 2/21/2012: I set up an eBay auction, and used the D300 to shoot a dozen pictures to support it.

This was obviously an office (or a storefront) once, but now it's just storage for a business whose front is on Kent Street (Portland's Main). Dunno why anyone would want to rent a tube. Got my eyes checked a year ago, and (of course) took along my camera. I wandered around downtown Portland before my appointment, taking pictures of buildings and doorways. ========== What's with this "roll" thing, Joel? Well, it's like this. Every day I dump each camera's photographs into a folder on my computer, with folder titles like this-- 20120105-Downtown Portland-Cybershot-JPG-12-1354 --the date, a description of the contents, the camera, the file format used, number of pictures, and a sequence number. These sit on my laptop for a few days before I get around to burning them to CD or DVD, then copying them to a server. (About half of them have also been saved to Google's cloud.) I call 'em "rolls" because I need to call 'em something. I suppose that's my film heritage showing through. (FWIW, scanned pix get the same treatment.) It's a system; it works for me. YMMV, of course. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 12 Title of "roll:" Downtown Portland Other photos taken on 1/5/2012: none