Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Negative Scan

Thirteen years ago today....

Sleeping Bear Point Lifesaving Station-- now a museum . In fact, long a museum. Lake Michigan (Sleeping Bear Bay) in the background.

As the MRHS bus pulled into the Cliffs-Erie complex, I told Joan that, despite Chuck Corwyn and Doug Buell's background information about the mining operation, we'd really come to get close to the F9s. Although "F9" is meaningless to her, she discovered I was right. One last look. Time to retire the Saturday series of photographs. Thanks for stopping by. Taken on a Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention outing; August, 2006.

Best LARGE . The Cliffs-Erie complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Technically, this is a photograph of Hinsdale, a named place on the railroad, but apparently never a settlement. The mine built this hill/tailings pile to raise the railroad to a useful height at the large processing plant . But then they needed a grade-level railroad entry, so they built a tunnel through the hill. That didn't work satisfactorily, so they ripped everything out and replaced the tunnel with this overpass. The remains of the tunnel are visible under the bridge (though they don't show in this photo). The Missabe Railroad Historical Society's convention took us here, August of 2006.

At the Cliffs-Erie (former LTV) complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota.

At the Cliffs-Erie iron mining complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society in August, 2006.

A montegnard rice farmer goes about his business. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.

Our maids, going home after a day of cleaning up after us. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. I imagine these covered walks in the hospital complex were constructed to protect the patients as they were moved between the buildings. By the time we moved it, that purpose had become pretty much irrelevant....

A thirty-five year old exposure and composition experiment. Several months ago I threatened you with candles . I'll try to limit myself to this one picture.... Taken in Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, in 1971. (Not that it really matters.) Not bad for an experiment, but otherwise the set--I took five of these--was a waste of good film.

Down the hill from the 71st Evacuation Hospital; Pleiku, Vietnam; 1971.

71st Evacuation Hospital, Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. Steve Streeper says these weeds weren't there when he lived at the hospital--just a few months before I arrived. Clearly they'd pretty much taken over by the time I got there. Ward 1--our barracks--is plainly visible on the hill to the left, and Ward 2 a bit less clearly on the right. The quonset huts were latrines.

A closer view of a quonset hut I showed you a year ago tomorrow. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.

Sunset at Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.

Champion Mine, Painesdale, Michigan, 1990. The structure's in better repair , now.

Champion Mine, Painesdale, Michigan, 1991; this is the entrance to the headframe. The last copper mine to close on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Functioning as a water works at the time; I suspect it still is, but that's not clear at the site. Taken during a tour with the Soo Line Historical and Technical Society's DSS&A Special Interest Group. Now a restoration project, and a potential museum.

In the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Michigan, in 1991 (Sarnia, Ontario, in the background). The Blue Waters at their best.

At Sault Ste. Marie in 1998. We didn't realize it yet, but the Clipper --a passenger ship cruising on the Great Lakes--was just ending a cruise. She parked here long enough for the passengers to finish their dinner, then moved a bit down the river and let everyone off. She's now mostly cruising elsewhere , but there are other cruises available. Certainly looked like a fun vacation....