Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Ruins

Wanted to see how the broken brick pile looked if I'd brighten it up....

Lincoln Brick Park, Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Lincoln Brick Park, Grand Ledge, Michigan. A large pile of broken bricks, a few yards from the abandoned factory.

A third version of this photo , all brightened & sharpened.

Brightened & sharpened version of this photo . I'm using Aperture as a play-toy, I guess. Perhaps i'll learn something from these experiments.

Lincoln Brick Park, Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Lincoln Brick Park, Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Lincoln Brick Park, Grand Ledge, Michigan. She was trying to convince the GPS to save our location. For some reason it wanted us to be on the other side of the river. Shot through my car's window. Nice reflection, no?

I've shown you these barns before ....

Right on the edge of Grand Ledge, Michigan--on Saginaw, where M-43 (Grand Ledge Highway) turns northward. They're for sale, if anyone's interested. Somehow I don't think they'll be with us much longer....

Jim Lovins photograph; Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. This building housed Republic of Korea troops and was just outside Pleiku's central MACV compound. It was roughly half-way between our "home" in the hospital complex and our "office" in MACV. The damage was done by a 122 mm rocket. Every couple weeks the VC would fire missiles at us. While the rockets certainly weren't harmless--people died in this incident--they were far more scary than they were dangerous. Typically, we'd be ducking nine rockets in a day: Three in the early morning, three more around noon, and three before supper. They'd set up the rockets on the outskirts of the city--near the whorehouses, I'm told--and retreat into the town before the Hueys could respond. The intended target was usually the local military headquarters (II Corps). Since our Commcenter was on the line defined by the launch site and the target, we had more than a few close calls. But by the second rocket in each set, we'd be in the bunker, wearing tin pots & flack jackets.

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.