Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: play

Another Bronson Park photo. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Also Joan, reflected in the window.... Camera: Olympus Stylus 410 Photo by Joan Bennett

It's Kalamazoo Richard 's birthday. Happy Birthday, bro! I thought I'd honor that event by posting a few photographs. Here he is, at age 18, frolicking in the yard at our cottage on Wall Lake in Delton, MIchigan. Spring, 1972. We'd had an ice storm; as you can see, it did lots of damage. We'd spend the day cleaning that up. The cottage was one of two our parents owned; they'd originally been rental units constituting half of a small lakeside resort. Mom & Dad were about to sell our Palmer Avenue home, and we'd live on the lake until moving into the Wellington Road place in December. Dick & I shared this little cottage; Mom, Dad, & Debbie stayed next door in the somewhat larger, and better-equipped, place. ---------------- I drove by Wall Lake a few weeks back, and was quite surprised to discover that the cottages were still standing. Many of their neighbors have been replaced with more substantial places; I expect these to eventually meet that fate.

Kane County's Michael Affronti (A's farmhand) takes out Lansing second baseman Scott Campbell (Jays) at Lansing's Olds Park. Scotty got the putout, but (obviously enough) didn't make the relay. Original, rather different, photo here . 330 game photos here . And I used this photograph to illustrate a (probably boring) blog entry .

Southwest Michigan catcher Alex Jamieson tags incoming Cedar Rapids baserunner Flint Wipke in the first inning of a game at Battle Creek on April 21, 2006. Wipke's trying to score from second on Mark Trumbo's single to left; Pat Reilly's already scored on the hit, and on deck batter Warner Madrigal's urging Wipke to slide. ============= The strange effects partly resulted from a mis-setting, as the (Chinon Genesis) camera didn't realize I'd installed the lens extender. Over the years, I've done that a lot. In this case, though, we can blame the camera; I was fighting to get it to hold its settings, and by game's end the camera had completely failed. I'm reasonably sure the second roll I took at the game will be the last for this camera. Sad, but not that sad. The camera served me well for a number of years, but I've got far better equipment. As I've discussed before , it took good pictures but wasn't the right camera for this photographer. The original scan , and the rest of the roll , are on the MWLguide photo stream .

Explored! #411 on Flickr [September 8, 2008, but no longer in the top 500] Thanks! Obviously, nearly everyone moved.... John O'Donnell Stadium, May 19, 2003; Centennial Bridge (and the Mississippi) in the background. West Michigan Whitecaps at Quad City River Bandits.