Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: east arm

The first reason we stay at Pointes North is the view. It's a nice hotel, too....

A year and a day ago, from our hotel in Traverse City. I keep taking this picture ; the scene changes and changes and changes .

Finally, this morning as we left for home, the weather started to clear up. Here's my last look at the East Bay from our hotel room's balcony. This pic is a bit misleading, as the ice shelf only extends a few hundred feet into the bay this year. And the bent beach is a combination of the short focal length and the processing method. Two photos, stiched together with Calico, then cleaned up a bit in Photoshop Elements. The sharpness leaves a little to be desired, here.

Last September....

Taken just before we left Traverse City, earlier in the week.

Over the East Arm of Grand Traverse Bay. Sunrise is my absolute favorite thing about Traverse City (except, perhaps, the food).

On the sandbar/beach outside our room, last night. Joan spotted these while we were preparing to go out to her birthday dinner. Not a particularly good photo, I'm afraid, but we had other things on our minds.

Traverse City.

It's those geese again. I do wish these pix had been just a wee bit sharper.

Here I was, trying to get a photo of the ice that had blown into the East Arm of Grand Traverse Bay when these geese flew by....

Morning on the East Arm of Grand Traverse Bay. Traverse City, Michigan.

But this time using my new lens. Yes, we're in Traverse City again. Finally. There's a bit of ice on the bay, but it's visibly melting.

Taken a year ago, on my birthday, from our hotel in Traverse City. In color because, well, I wanted to post it in color. Mom often complained that I kept taking the same photographs, which she considered wasted duplication. I'll certainly admit I've taken this photograph many times, but I'd insist that no two are the same. The light differs, the snow comes and goes, sometimes there are birds, and the clouds are remarkably variable. The vegetation changes. The water level changes. Sometimes the ice shelf extends far into the bay. And I change cameras, and lenses, and camera setups with just appalling regularity. The similar photographs are really not all that similar. But, really--it's beautiful here in Traverse City, and that's reason enough to make photographs. I've taken several more versions of this photo already this weekend. ========== One of the things I like about Pointes North is the hotel's rails. The halls are exposed, and every room's got a balcony. My 366 Snaps photo from a year ago was an attempt to capture the hotel's chutes and ladders look. This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 12 Title of " roll :" Rails and Balconies Other photos taken on 2/27/2012: I took 20 pictures with the Cybershot. Most were of the room and the bay; a few were of Mackinaw Brewing Company, where we dined.