Winter Tones
This weekend I drove east on 36th St SE from Buttrick Avenue, just outside of Ada village. I was looking […]
Soccer Field?
I’ve noticed this soccer field before on Northland Drive, north of Cedar Springs. This weekend I stopped for a minute […]
Winter-ish
The weird “winter” we’ve been having continues, with the possibility of more normal weather perhaps in February. But yesterday the […]
Snow Anxiety
During the winter I tend to photograph less and study photographs more–my own and those of others that I find […]
Fog and Water
This past weekend I took a photo walk in the area around the dam in Ada Village, a few miles […]
Wealthy Street
This blogpost is long overdue. The images are from early October. Somehow, I never got around to put them together […]
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 […]
No Ordinary Light 
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