End of the Season
We’ve had our first major snowstorm of the year, and it was a doozy (to use a technical term). More […]
Near the RR Tracks
This weekend, I took a walk along some railroad tracks near where I live. As it turns out, mostly, I […]
Fading Fall Colors
As fall turns to winter and colors fade the photographer in me gets grumpy. The cold weather is hard on […]
Fall Colors
This week’s post is the product of a short flight on a blustery day in Michigan. Fifteen miles an hour […]
Mackinac Bridge
The Straits of Mackinac feel to me–as a historian–defined by relations between Native peoples and Europeans. The fur trade. Battles […]
St. Ignace
Last weekend my wife and I went to St. Ignace, which is just over the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper […]
Grand River View
I’m not sure if Grand Rapids is famous for anything. Furniture maybe. Beer more recently maybe. For an urban area […]
Bridge Street Morning
Last weekend I photographed early to mid-morning before the street got busy. The mix of classic and renovated Midwestern architecture […]
Churches from the Sky
This weekend I went back to the old Polish Catholic immigrant neighborhood near the confluence of highways 131 and 196 […]
Bars and Churches
This weekend I photographed on the NW side of Grand Rapids, in the 4th Street NW and Stocking Avenue NW […]
Cottage Country and the Dynamo
“Dynamo” is an old-timey term for a device that generates electricity, such as the coal-fired electric generating station in the […]
Last Weekend
This morning I realized that I never got around to writing my blog post last weekend. So, here we go. […]
Eastown Architecture
Apparently, some people think of the Eastown neighborhood as the Greenwich Village of Grand Rapids (in a travel story about […]
Cherry Street (Plus)
This weekend I photographed along Cherry Street in the East Hills neighborhood of Grand Rapids. I also went out with […]
Commuter Sunrise
This week, early in the week, I drove by this gas station a bit after sunrise. The lights of the […]
Hastings from Above
This week I got to play with my drone a bit more than usual. Here’s a few images that I […]
Fulton Street
This week I spent part of a morning on Fulton Street SE, near the Fulton Street Market. This part of […]
Michigan St NE
As much as any other area of town in Grand Rapids, Michigan St NE has been transformed in the past […]
Older Suburbs
This summer I’ve started photographing business districts in Grand Rapids neighborhoods such as Creston (Plainfield NE) and Alger Heights (Alger […]
Alger Heights
This weekend I photographed in the small business district in the Alger Heights neighborhood, a postwar suburb with modest houses. […]
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