Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Minolta SR-T 101

My sister, 'round about Christmas day in 1972. Shot with my SRT-101.

West Michigan's pitching coach chats with some fans at Lansing's Cooley Law School Stadium. Photo taken 9/10/2007 before a Midwest League playoff game against the Lansing Lugnuts.

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.

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.

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.

Sleeping Bear Point Lifesaving Station-- now a museum . In fact, long a museum. Lake Michigan (Sleeping Bear Bay) in the background.

As the MRHS bus pulled into the Cliffs-Erie complex, I told Joan that, despite Chuck Corwyn and Doug Buell's background information about the mining operation, we'd really come to get close to the F9s. Although "F9" is meaningless to her, she discovered I was right. One last look. Time to retire the Saturday series of photographs. Thanks for stopping by. Taken on a Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention outing; August, 2006.

Best LARGE . The Cliffs-Erie complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Technically, this is a photograph of Hinsdale, a named place on the railroad, but apparently never a settlement. The mine built this hill/tailings pile to raise the railroad to a useful height at the large processing plant . But then they needed a grade-level railroad entry, so they built a tunnel through the hill. That didn't work satisfactorily, so they ripped everything out and replaced the tunnel with this overpass. The remains of the tunnel are visible under the bridge (though they don't show in this photo). The Missabe Railroad Historical Society's convention took us here, August of 2006.

At the Cliffs-Erie (former LTV) complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota.

At the Cliffs-Erie iron mining complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society in August, 2006.

A montegnard rice farmer goes about his business. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.

Our maids, going home after a day of cleaning up after us. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. I imagine these covered walks in the hospital complex were constructed to protect the patients as they were moved between the buildings. By the time we moved it, that purpose had become pretty much irrelevant....

A thirty-five year old exposure and composition experiment. Several months ago I threatened you with candles . I'll try to limit myself to this one picture.... Taken in Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, in 1971. (Not that it really matters.) Not bad for an experiment, but otherwise the set--I took five of these--was a waste of good film.

Down the hill from the 71st Evacuation Hospital; Pleiku, Vietnam; 1971.

71st Evacuation Hospital, Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. Steve Streeper says these weeds weren't there when he lived at the hospital--just a few months before I arrived. Clearly they'd pretty much taken over by the time I got there. Ward 1--our barracks--is plainly visible on the hill to the left, and Ward 2 a bit less clearly on the right. The quonset huts were latrines.

A closer view of a quonset hut I showed you a year ago tomorrow. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.

Sunset at Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.