Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: scanned

Lake Superior, 2006, taken with my Minolta SR-T 101. My notes suggest I took this near Split Rock lighthouse, but I can't be much more specific than that.

Mom called one evening in 1992 and invited me to take her to a festival at Scotts Mill County Park in Scotts, Michigan. She'd joined a storytelling group at the Kalamazoo Library and wanted to see some of the group in action. So we went, and enjoyed. There were young folks and old folks and in-between folks. Some were quite good; others needed to work on technique. This guy was being Davy Crockett, declaiming his exploits on the wild frontier. Best in show.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (on Lake Superior), Munising, Michigan. July of 1998. One perhaps-unexpected result of playing with OpticsPro (photo post-processing software) and Photo Supreme (a photo indexing system) has been that I've been looking at old pix. Though this one was processed using AfterShot Pro, it's one of those "found" photos.

It's December 16, 1971. My Vietnam year's over and my Freedom Bird's somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. So I grab the camera and capture the start of a new day.

Babcock State Park, West Virginia; September of 1998.

Midwest League, April 27, 2006; Burlington Bees @ Southwest Michigan (Battle Creek) Devil Rays Sorting through some old scans. Managers Jim Gabella (Bees) and Skeeter Barnes (D'Rays) meet with umpires Kellen Levy and De'Andre Anderson before the game to trade lineups, discuss the ground rules, and whatever. Posting this because I like Gabella's pose. The stripes are because I was shooting through a protective screen, which the Minolta SR-T 101 doesn't handle that as well as my Nikon D300. Scan by Lansing's The Camera Shoppe.

Petoskey, Michigan; that's Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. Considering I shot this with a cheap panoramic camera and that this was one of the first scans I ever made from a negative (the scan's nine years old), it's not half bad.

Continuing with my OpticsPro experiment. This is Joan in August of 2000, more or less at a town named Betsy on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. That's Lake Superior in the background. I shot this with my N90s and scanned it from a negative. Still playing with the OpticsPro software. The object here was to recover Joan's face, which is heavily shadowed in the TIF version. Good enough.

Been sorting through some old photographs this morning.... Our back yard, on Palmer Avenue in Kalamazoo, in January of 1972. I was back from Vietnam, but not yet out of the Army when I took this photo. We played whiffle baseball in this yard and used that high wall to define homers (and doubles, I think). Our neighbor built the fence to keep us kids out of her yard, which didn't work as well as she'd likely hoped.

Fayette State Park, at the top of Lake Michigan. July of 1981.

Think I took this in August of 1990, likely with my Chinon Genesis III. Never really liked that camera, but it took some good photographs for me. All that gear in the background is the Escanaba ore dock's shiploader. In the distance, you can sort of see Lake Michigan.

Riding high at Port Huron in 1991. Later Algoma Provider; she was Canadian Provider from 1994 to 2011. Just a last few days ago she was been towed off-lakes to be scrapped in Turkey. Scanned from film, of course.

Earl W--originally Paul Thayer, now the Manitowoc--and David Z--originally William R. Roesch, now the (third) Calumet--at Sarnia on Labor Day weekend in 2007. These ships only bore these names for the 2007 shipping season; they were named for Oglebay-Norton founders Earl W. Oglebay and David Z. Norton. Oglebay-Norton's Columbia Transportation division was disbanded after these ships and their fleetmate Wolverine were sold in February of 2008. An annoyingly bad scan of a photo taken with my Minolta SRT-101.

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.

Been playing with m' scanner again this afternoon. This is Interlake's Elton Hoyt 2nd at the Lake Superior and Ishpeming dock in Marquette, Michigan. Photo was taken on August 19, 1989 with a Minolta point'n'shoot camera (one of the Freedom series, but I've forgotten which). The lousy quality is mostly because I liked (still like) to shoot with fast film. Some things just never change, by the way. The boat's now called Michipicoten; Marjorie O'Brien shot a picture of her at the same location just yesterday. ============================== Reposted: A cleaned-up version, 11/24/2008.

For comparison with yesterday's photo , here's an older picture--a postcard shot I picked up somewhere--of the Kindleberger Park baseball stadium in, I'd guess, the 1950s. Note the bleachers down the first base line, and the terrace above the retaining wall on the other side of the yard. One thing you can't see in either photo are the stairs-to-nowhere from the top of the hill which end well above the diamond on the third base side. And back then the playing field was much prettier, as you can see. That's the KVP mill in the background, mostly hidden behind the trees.

My mother, on Mother's Day in 2000. Mom was born on April 7, 1926; she'd have been 88 today. Taken with a Nikon N90s; scanned from a negative.