Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: glen lake

At Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Photo taken 9/25/2011.

I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. Another photo from the same vacation, again testing the OpticsPro's ClearView feature. It seems to work, even on a JPG original.

Come summer, this view will be filled by families and sunbathers. Joan had never climbed the dune; I hadn't been up the hill since the mid-seventies though I'd climbed it several times in the sixties. The Dune Climb starts out quite steeply for an elevation change of 80 feet or so, then continues with a less strenuous climb that raises you another hundred feet or so. This photo was taken just where the going gets easier.... Glen Lake's remarkably colorful, though (of course) the ice hides that in winter. Can't seem to find details about the climb--beyond it's existence, anyway--anywhere on the web.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Those of you who've been paying attention know that Glen Haven's my favorite place. Period. The Park Service website tells me that this waterfront hotel dates from about 1865 (it says 1857 on the building), with an addition "a few years later" and the porch enclosed in the 1920s. I sometimes wish it was still a functioning hostelry. The Park's done a lot of work on the Glen Haven shoreline since we last visited--fences, mostly, but some other work as well. Probably it's a good thing.

From the top of the dune at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in 1973. The national park was only a couple years old at the time. Worth noting: The farm in the foreground, and its surrounding orchards, seem to be gone , now. Local residents were quite opposed to the establishment of the national park, fearing that the feds would preempt their property, attract undesirable tourists, and generally disrupt the place. They weren't shy about telling visitors their opinions, either. Since we visited the area quite regularly, we heard those opinions many times. The hostility continues, by the way, though it's less visible to visitors. The Parks Service has an excellent discussion of the issues, and the history of its relations with local landowners, on the Sleeping Bear website. Dad's photograph shows the terrain well, but doesn't do justice to Glen Lake's riot of colors. Scanned from a Roger Dinda slide; Argus C3.