Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: library

Near the Beal Garden gate . Wish my daylilies looked that good....

Olivet College. I need to go back with a different selection of lenses on a brighter day.

My personal favorite of the massive government buildings in downtown Lansing. The nearer half of this building houses the Michigan History Museum and the department called HAL (History, Arts, and Libraries); the distant half is the absolutely delightful Library of Michigan.

A dozen or so years ago the Mulliken library was the victim of a stupid prank which resulted in a nasty fire. We'd already passed a millage to fund this building, but hadn't expected to need to replace the books as well. The other building in the photo is Creative Taxidermy.

There are four of 'em, actually; they decorate the Library in DeForest, Wisconsin. One supposes there's a story....

I no longer recall why I drove to Kalamazoo a year ago today--likely someone had a medical appointment--but I figured to stop at another college on my way home. I considered finding a picture on Western Michigan's campus, but decided against that. My next thought was Hillsdale College, where I'd never visited, but that was too far out of the way. So Albion, only a few miles off one of my usual routes between home and Kalamazoo, became my day's photography target. I'd not been on the campus since high school track meets, and frankly all I remembered was the stadium. Found the school, parked the car, and wandered around a bit, scoping out potential photographs. I found a fairly picturesque college campus, near but not of the downtown, arranged around a rather large quadrangle. Took my pictures, returned to my car, and continued on my way. Oh, yes. Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium looks much like I remembered it. ========== The Vulgamore Hall photo (below) that I posted to 366 Snaps is one of my favorite photos from the entire project. And it seems that nearly every college in the country has a Rock that they consider sacred, or unique, or something. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 12 Title of " roll :" Albion College Other photos taken on 9/20/2012: none.

It isn't often that I consider my Galaxy Tab a "more suitable camera" than my D300, but this photo's a direct response to my dissatisfaction with the Burrage Library photo I shot with the Nikon. The same is true of the photo I posted to 366 Snaps a year ago today. The Olivet College quad is pretty much fully tree covered, which is pleasant but makes many photographs challenging. When I visited the campus on August 9 I was carrying the D300 with a tele zoom, which really isn't suitable for the environment. So I captured some details on the library tower and called it good enough . And returned a month later. The photo above is differently handicapped--the tablet's lens isn't capable of wide angles, so even with careful framing I lost the bottom of the building. Even so the pic works well. And the 366 Snaps photo shows the campus well, methinks. That view's pretty much the public face of the college. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for September 7 .

Olivet's a college town, and the village's most recognizable landmark is this tower. I nearly moved to Olivet, once, many years back, but ended up somewhere else. Never been sure I made the right choice.... ========== Visited my sister in her new (nursing home) digs last August 9. Stopped for breakfast before leaving the Lansing area, then briefly wandered around Olivet on my way there. For the most part the 80-200 mm wasn't an appropriate lens on the tree-lined Olivet College campus, as there are few clear shots of anything. As you'll see, I'd return a few weeks later with a different camera. Took the back roads home. The rehab center's a few miles directly south of Three Lakes, where my dad and I often fished when I was young. I lingered there a while, taking pix with two cameras, then dodged construction projects in the Richland area before heading toward Mulliken on roads I'd not travelled in years. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 29 Title of " roll :" Olivet College - Three Lakes Other photos taken on 8/9/2012: I already mentioned the Three Lakes pictures I took with the V1.

The reason I learned MSU's campus is the school's great library, where I used to spend entire days. It's really a rather unattractive building, but if you're careful you can make it look good. I'm also posting a different crop of this photo. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for July 12 .

The reason I learned MSU's campus is the school's great library, where I used to spend entire days. It's really a rather unattractive building, but if you're careful you can make it look good. I'm also posting a different crop of this photo. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for July 12 .

As I've explained before , Mulliken's library was/is one of my default photo subjects. Besides the convenience of its next-to-the-post-office location, I find this apparently-plain building's a fun photo subject. ========== The FujiFilm F200EXR was designed to be good at low-light photography. A year ago I devoted 36 images to testing that thesis, with mixed results. A few of the results were interesting , but few were very good. The best were taken downtown. The 366 Snaps picture was of the Masonic Temple's door, with the corner of the fire station in the foreground. I thought it worked pretty well. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 36 Title of " roll :" Home & Downtown Other photos taken on 4/3/2012: I was still playing with the Nikon 1. For some reason I shot a whole lot of pix of a tufted titmouse using the 10-30 lens. That mostly didn't work out, but I did get this .

The building beyond the PO was Forrest Meier's barber shop for well over five decades. Just wanted to mention that. I picked up my mail last March 13 and wandered behind the Main Street buildings to shoot a few pix of the tracks and trackside structures. Then I circled back to Main. This photo could be considered a complement to my Creative Taxidermy pic from January 7 --I was at the same location, but facing west instead of east. Then I crossed the street and caught the Farmer's Tavern Coca-Cola sign photograph that got posted to 366 Snaps . That sign tells a lot about Roger and Sandy Sain, who own the restaurant--and an antique business on the side. By the way, I'd photographed the sign before , with my (then) brand new Nikon D300. And before that , with the D70. Farmer's Steakhouse is endlessly photogenic . ========== I bought the D300 late in 2007. It was a significant upgrade from my D70, and the learning curve was pretty steep. Eighteen months later I was taking decent photos but was often fighting with the camera. At that point I took a rather long sabbatical from serious photography (not the camera's fault; my job turned unusually chaotic and my hobbies suffered). In mid-2010, when I resumed my photography habit, using the camera came easy. I can list several reasons for that--the break helped, as did the prior experience, and my attitude had changed for causes unrelated to either. Another reason was my then-new 16-85 mm VR lens. I love this lens. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 17 Title of " roll :" Downtown Mulliken Other photos taken on 3/13/2012: none.

A year ago today the snow'd melted (unlike this morning) and I spent some time trying to convert the resulting puddles into interesting photographs. No luck. Eventually I wandered downtown to check my mail, and took this photo of the library's entryway. It's gonna be obvious by the year's end that I'd photograph the library when my earlier efforts had failed to produce anything I liked. ========= A few seconds later I stepped into the post office, spotted the packaging arranged on the wall, and recognized the day's 366 project photo. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 18 Title of " roll :" Around Mulliken [yet again. three days running; fourth time in the project.] Other photos taken on 1/23/2012: none.

The Library's next door to the post office, so I shot lots of pictures there last year as a side effect of borrowing its parking slots. This pic--with real and fake snowflakes--is about as good as I'd manage. You can expect to see more.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here .