Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: power lines

Have I mentioned before that I like photographing fog and haze?

Danby Township, Michigan. While many of my photographs are pretty much random events, many are planned to one degree or another. This one was planned pretty carefully.

A southbound CN train (probably it's officially westbound) hurrying down Michigan's Grand Trunk mainline north of Potterville, Michigan. As you can see, there are signals on the tracks, for the trains--but the Windsor Highway crossing is a locally-rare unprotected crossing, so I wasn't really prepared when I and the train arrived more or less simultaneously. Lucky I got any pictures at all; rather pleased with this one.

When I moved to Mulliken it was still a farm town, but the postmaster told me it was well on its way to becoming a bedroom community. He was right.

I had a couple specific photo ideas when I set out last July 10. Neither really worked out. My first target was downtown Potterville. This failed because Potterville's Main Street had been torn up for a sewer project. Shooting any downtown picture appeared to be literally impossible due to barriers, strategically obstructive equipment, and tall piles of dirt. ========== My second target was this church, a building I've admired since moving to the Lansing area in 1977. The problem here turned out to be those cables--I could get interesting pix of the church, but the photographs I wanted to take were all obstructed in one way or another. Furthermore, there were kids playing in the church yard, which restricted my ability to just wander around trying to find the right angle. So I took a few pix and wandered off. Unlike most of my 366 Snaps candidates, this one was mainly processed in Photoshop Elements (rather than Bibble Pro). Among other tricks, I used the "find edges" filter to sharpen things up. ========== Early in the day's trip I'd been distracted by the sky, and stopped a couple places to capture that. Those pics turned out well, but didn't really work as black-and-whites. Finally, heading home, I found my way blocked by a family of turkeys, crossing the road just north of the Thornapple a few miles south of my house. Grabbed the camera, snapped a few quick shots with all the settings wrong, and posted one of those to 366 Snaps. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 19 Title of " roll :" Here & There Other photos taken on 7/10/2012: none.