Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Dunes

Explored (#51 on Wednesday, September 19, 2007). Thanks! (No longer in the top 500.)

Muskegon, Michigan. Best LARGE . Explored (#60 on Wednesday, September 19, 2007). Thanks! (No longer in the top 500. So it goes....

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.)

Shot from the breakwater at the end of the channel at Muskegon, looking at the small beach within the larger breakwater which protects the harbor. I particularly like the peculiar clouds, which are probably more visible in the larger sizes. It was a glorious day at the beach.

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....

Eaton County, Michigan.

Eaton County, Michigan.

Eaton County, Michigan

Best LARGE . Eaton County, Michigan--Kelly Highway, at Brown Road. Everyone's chewing up the bean fields this week.

Now a NOAA facility, as the sign over the door shows. Apparently this color scheme restores the original, though the materials have changed. Another photo from our Muskegon visit a couple weekends ago. A quick web search demonstrates that this century-old building's had several paint jobs.

Cochran Road, Eaton County, Michigan.

Lake O's tiny railroad station was built by an ancestor of the Pere Marquette line in 1888. A century later it was dwarfed by the grain silos along the tracks, and PM's successor Chessie donated (or perhaps sold) the building to the local historical society. So the building was moved away from the tracks to its present location near the fairgrounds. There's a bit more information, including some fine speculation about the architectural details, here . A gorgeous building.

Explored (#99 on Wednesday, January 9, 2008). Thanks! Pretty boat. Leaving the harbor at Muskegon, Michigan. While I've seen, and photographed, most currently active lakes boats, this one had somehow escaped me until yesterday afternoon. We'd gone to Muskegon to walk the beach, and suddenly there she was, leaving the harbor. Sykes was the first American lakes boat completed after World War II, and was launched shortly after I was born. In many ways she's the prototype for a generation of lakers. And just plain gorgeous! Glad I finally found her.

Explored (111 on Wednesday, September 19, 2007). Thanks! (No longer in the top 500. So goes Explore.) Wilfred Sykes ( again ) and an array of pleasure craft about to clear the Muskegon breakwater. Sykes will shortly be turning south, likely for one of the steel mills in northern Indiana. This photo works quite well in the larger sizes ....