Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: hartwick pines

I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. This photo's my father's, taken sometime in the early 1960s; I scanned this from a slide. I've posted a version of this pic before . Some of the difference is that I'm better at this now than I was a decade ago.

Hartwick Pines State Park, near Grayling.

Hartwick Pines State Park, Grayling, Michigan. Hartwick Pines has the largest stand of old growth timber in Michigan, a fifty-acre grove which was deliberately preserved when the area was logged in the 1920s. The preserved stand was originally 87 acres, but has shrunk as the trees aged and died. It is, of course, still shrinking. The pine grove is a small, albeit treasured, part of an enormous, 9,600 acre, wilderness park. Pennsylvania also has a "tall pines" state park, called Cook Forest, which Joan and I visited in 1999. The Pennsylvania park, which is similar in size but has much more old growth, seemed then to view its old pines as a doomed treasure. Michigan's park emphasizes rebirth, growth, and cycles in nature. A better perspective, methinks. Both are very impressive places, and worth a visit.

Nearly a century ago they took the trees and left the stumps. Nearly all of them show fire damage, but that's just nature taking its course.... Hartwick Pines State Park, near Grayling, Michigan.

At Hartwick Pines State Park, near Grayling, Michigan.

Taking a break. Hartwick Pines State Park, near Grayling, Michigan.

Hartwick Pines State Park, Michigan. Camera: Argus C3 Photo by Roger Dinda

At Hartwick Pines State Park, near Grayling, Michigan.

At Chapel in the Pines, Hartwick Pines State Park, near Grayling, Michigan.