Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: superior

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.

Superior Harbor. Like most of the photos from this cruise, this one had some exposure issues; fixing those made things pretty grainy. I do like the composition, though.

Duluth-Superior Harbor, with a gorgeous sky above and Lake Superior in the distance. The Missabe (now CN) ore docks protrude a half-mile into the harbor in the foreground, and Midwest Energy's millions of tons of coal across the way. Shot from Duluth's Skyline Parkway, where (as usual) we were about to get lost. Not real sure how this got to be so grainy, but I rather like it anyway.

Another Duluth-Superior photo, this one of the curvy high-level bridge that carries US-2 across the harbor. This bridge replaced a similarly-curvy bridge (great pix; go, look) which was much nearer water level. Dick Bong was a WWII fighter pilot, from Poplar, Wisconsin. Bong was credited with shooting down over 40 Japanese aircraft and was considered the United States Ace of Aces . He died in an aircraft testing incident in Burbank, California, on the same day as the Hiroshima bombing. Over the years I've taken several tours of this harbor . During one of those tours the guide made quite a point about the bridge--named after a Pacific War hero and crossing the world's greatest iron-shipping harbor--being built of Japanese steel. Ah, irony.

Superior, Wisconsin. Looks peaceful, doesn't it?

One last Bibble/Andy experiment with this photo. This time I tried to bring out the clouds, at the expense of other detail. We're imitating Fomapan 100 printed on Agfa's Multicontrast Premium, using filter 4. That filter's doing most of the work. Looks--fairly accurately, actually--like we're approaching sunset. Superior Wisconsin.

The same photo; continuing my Bibble/Andy experiments with a well-composed but ill-exposed photo. This one's as though it was Agfapan 25 (ha! way too grainy) printed on Kodak Portra; I've also made some effort to brighten things up a bit. This brings out detail on the elevator, but costs detail in other places--particularly the clouds in the sky. A look at the map reveals that my lens has dramatically foreshortened the view, hiding the fact that the elevator's at the far end of a deep slip, most of a half-mile away. But the effect's quite dramatic. Superior Harbor, again, of course.

Thought I'd play with Bibble's Andy plugin a little. This one's fairly conventional--imitating Tri-X printed on Agfa Multicontrast paper. Superior, Wisconsin.

NP's dock is/was right next to the Great Northern's ore dock complex at Allouez (Superior), Wisconsin. GN's Dock Three, which was wooden, has been removed and the only dock which is currently in use is Dock Five, which is newer and which was built to move ore with conveyors, not trains. The others in the set, including this one, are no longer attached to the tracks. The GN dock is now a BNSF facility, of course. Shot from the parking lot of a gas station. I didn't know you could get this close to the dock, or I'd have photographed it before....

Explored! #171 on Flickr [February 9, 2008] Thanks! Your classic postcard shot of the delightful light at Eagle Harbor, on Lake Superior in Michigan's Copper Country. Now a museum of local history, and well worth the visit. Yes, I pushed the color a bit. The light is still functioning.

Meteor, long a museum and permanently parked at Barkers Island in Superior, seen from a Duluth-Superior Harbor Tour circa 1990. Scanned from a slide, likely taken with a Minolta point-n-shoot.

At Fraser Shipyards (as you can see) in Superior, Wisconsin.

In June of 1981, Debbie was kind enough to deliver me back to my summer job assigning freshmen to rooms. We took the long way around, following the south shore of Lake Superior from end to end and doing some other exploring. When our trip brought us to this old ship, I got pretty excited.... This is the last surviving whaleback laker , a tanker named Meteor. She was built as the Frank Rockefeller in 1896; later she was known as South Park before becoming Meteor in 1942. She was an active ship until 1969, and has been functioning as a museum in Superior, Wisconsin, since 1972. I hear she's deteriorating and may not last much longer. Should that happen I'll miss her. Taken during a harbor tour out of Duluth, approximately 1990.