More Light
It was a busy week and a very cold weekend, so I did not spend much time photographing. Happily, again, […]
January Light?
In West Michigan in January the “light” is mostly filtered through cloud cover. We can go pretty much the whole […]
Let’s Hope
Let’s hope that 2022 is not 2020 3.0, as 2021 in retrospect felt a bit like 2020 2.0. This week’s […]
Last Post of the Year
The past year, like the one before it, has been weird. COVID-19, of course, Zombie-like. Crazy politics. Violent weather. Today, […]
Odds and Ends
This week’s post is images from the past couple of weeks. Last weekend I did not bother with a post […]
First Real Snow
This week’s images are of a bridge–well, two bridges–and some railroad tracks between Grand Rapids and Ada village. I was […]
Alto
It’s likely that Alto will be my last visit this year to a village/small town in the region around West […]
Marne
With the first real snow on the ground and in evidence in this these photographs, I decided that I’m getting […]
Byron Center
Last week I spent some time photographing in Byron Center. It’s an interesting place and I got some nice images […]
Sand Lake
I visited Sand Lake on a whim. It’s a village of 500 or so, about 30 minutes north of Grand […]
Freeport (The Halloween Special)
When I chose to go to Freeport it was a kind of random decision. It also was serendipitous. There are […]
Moline
What do you call a place that’s smaller than a village? I found myself thinking about this as I was […]
Lake Odessa
This is an interesting little town. Just over 2,000 people, it was settled first in the late 1830s and has […]
Clarksville
This is the smallest of the small towns in West Michigan that I’ve photographed so far. The village of Clarksville […]
Caledonia
Of all the small towns and villages in West Michigan that I’ve photographed this summer, Caledonia is the most dominated […]
Cedar Springs
All places are interesting in some way, I think. But some have peculiarities that others don’t. Cedar Springs, a town […]
Greenville
The more I’ve spent time photographing small towns in West Michigan, the more I find that they all have interesting […]
Allegan
On a whim this week, I found myself curious about the town of Allegan. I spent a late morning and […]
Wayland
Last weekend i photographed a “bougie” small town in West Michigan. This weekend, I went to Wayland, south of Grand […]
Rockford
Compared to most of the other small towns in West Michigan that I’ve photographed, Rockford feels like a “boutique” small […]
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