Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: driftwood

I was working with a colleague yesterday when I noticed the picture beside the printer. Lacking a real camera, I whipped out my Treo and captured it with my telephone. The photo reminded me of a similar pic by Brian H , and of one of mine I'd not yet posted. The bluff in the background, here, is Sleeping Bear. Used to have a boss, Jeff Villaire, who vacationed at Michigan's Crystal Lake, spending two weeks every summer on the edge of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Jeff passed away several years ago, but his memory lives on in the office with the photographs he used to decorate the place.

Fifth of Six. And what have we here? I presume that driftwood border has some significance. Is that a bunker near the top of the photo? Are those feathers supposed to represent trees? And what, pray tell, are those ranked-and-filed shells? Mysteries. On the beach at Cheboygan State Park.

Empire Bluff, above Empire, Michigan, looking toward Empire, the Sleeping Bear Dune, and Pyramid Point. Taken, I think, in 1998. A few months ago, Brian H speculated that he wasn't likely the only person who'd photographed this tree . I assured him he wasn't. Reasonably sure I shot this with the Nikon N90s. Posting this old and rather poor scan because of the next photo I'm posting . Someday I'll locate the original, and post a decent scan....

A version of one of the world's standard photographs : Sleeping Bear Dune through this dead tree from the boardwalk at the top of the Empire Bluff. The tree's definitely a mere shadow of its former self . Lake Michigan and South Bar Lake are visible; Empire Village is just this side of South Bar. And the glorious Empire beach runs along the shore. =================== Evidently the tree's damage was recent, and was deliberate vandalism. See 1Cher's comment , below, for more information. Sad.