Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: waves

Lake Michigan.

Not big breakers; I've seen far larger waves on Lake Michigan. But these were running counter to an impressive headwind just as they hit the sandbars. The Manitou Islands in the background.

From last summer. Joan and I spent a week camping in sight of Lake Michigan; the wind never dropped to a comfortable level. Usually this beach is walkable, and quite attractive. Not on this day.

An alternate treatment/crop.

Another photo from Saturday's walk at Maple River.

I told you we had bad weather in South Haven, then posted a bunch of photos from our one fairweather day. Most of the time Lake Michigan looked like this.... I'm not real happy with this shot, which was the second in the sequence just as I stepped on the walkway. By the time I got a better angle, the waves had diminished and those pix are pretty boring. This one at least shows the waves pounding against the north pier.

A recrop of the photo I posted earlier today....

Best LARGE . My father walked beaches, so I grew up walking beaches. Mom would pack a lunch, we'd pile in the car and head to South Haven or St. Joe or wherever. We'd walk, sometimes for hours. Then for a long time I didn't walk beaches. Now I walk beaches again, though not as often as I'd like. This one happens to be Muskegon State Park. Explored (#50 on Wednesday, September 19, 2007). Thanks! (No longer in the top 500. Explore is mysterious.)

Another Cathead Bay photograph from last September. Leelanau State Park , at the end of Michigan's "little finger." Memorial: Norris Ingells, a photographer whose skills always captivated and delighted me, passed away Friday . I only knew him from his photographs and his writing, but it's a great loss nonetheless. One of Lansing's great treasures. -Added to the www.flickr.com/groups/cotc/ in the morning on December 20, 2005. Explored! #19 on Sunday, July 29, 2007, where it remains. Thanks, everyone!

South Haven, Michigan. This was only a moderately windy day....

From the breakwater, more or less by Coast Guard Station North Superior (so named because Grand Marais, Michigan, also had a CGS; Minnesota's Grand Marais had to have a unique designation). The huge private boat in the picture is called Northland; they were about to leave. I suspect they expected more privacy than the location actually afforded.

At Grand Marais, Minnesota; that's Lake Superior, folks.

The mouth of the Cascade River, Cascade River State Park, near Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Another photo from our day at Manistee a couple weeks back.

Muskegon State Park.

Grand Traverse Bay from Holiday Inn West Bay in Traverse City. I showed you this dock a few months ago; perhaps this gull, also....

Lake Michigan, off the stern of SS Badger.