2023 September Photo Trip
101 photos
2023 February Photo Trip
103 photos
2022 February Photo Trip
78 photos
2021 October Photo Trip
407 photos
2020 September Photo Trip
90 photos
2020 February Photo Trip
236 photos
2019 October Photo Trip
209 photos
2019 Summer Photo Trip
106 photos
2018 October Photo Trip
312 photos
Northern Michigan autumn trip.
2018 Summer Photo Trip
148 photos
2016 October Photo Trip
133 photos
An overview of my stops once I crossed the Mighty Mac. 1451 miles.
White Marble Lime Co.
Spalding, MI
Waucedah, MI
Piers Gorge
Norway, MI
Pemene Falls
Quiver Falls
Mex-I-Min-E Falls
Fuller,...
2016 June Photo Trip
489 photos
With a good friend, Ken, first trip out with camera post-cancer. 1688 miles.
Simplified overview:
Gould City
Germfask Roadside Park
Blaney Park
Escanaba
Wells
Delta Co. and Menominee Co....
2015 June Photo Trip
135 photos
2014 California Nevada Photo Trip
488 photos
Death Valley is much larger than an assumption I had about the scale of all things in this place.
The roads are much worse than I had anticipated. Many were closed due to washouts. Many are in...
2013 June Photo Trip
169 photos
The places I stopped for a camera intervention.
Trout Lake, MI
Seewhy, MI
Riley Creek
Christmas, MI
L'Anse, MI
Baraga, MI
Lauluma Rd. (Houghton Co.)
Quincy Mine
Mason, MI
Bunker Hill, MI
Hungarian...
2013 Winter Photo Trip
236 photos
Three days and four nights in the Michigan North. The route via the named places, four corners, landing stations, switches, and wyes I passed through.
DAY ONE
Mackinac County
St. Ignace (First...
2012 September Photo Trip
113 photos
A drive for some autumnal colors.
DAY ONE
Alger County
Miners Falls
Miners Beach
Mosquito Falls
Chapel Falls
Upper Chapel Falls
Munising Falls
DAY TWO
Alger County
Munising, MI
Christmas, MI
Rock...
2012 August Photo Trip
471 photos
Bellaire, MI
St. Ignace, MI
Allenville, MI
Vermillion, MI
Fiborn Quarry, MI
Fayette, MI
Bark River, MI
Houle, MI
Wilson, MI
Perronville, MI
Whitney, MI
Ralph, MI
Northland, MI
Mashek, MI
Watson,...
2012 California Nevada Photo Trip
437 photos
I did a major road trip with an old college friend. It started out driving the old Route 66 to Nevada.
Oro Grande, CA
Barstow, CA
Daggett, CA
Newberry Springs, CA
Ludlow, CA
Amboy, CA
Chambless,...
2010 October Photo Trip
201 photos
1538.7 Miles Driven
This photo trip was more about “just goin’ for a drive…but make it scenic and try to get some good images”.
A list of named places I passed through on my trip.
Every...
2008 September Photo Trip
313 photos
“To the Keweenaw”
Wednesday, 17 September 2008 to Sunday, 21 September 2008 – 1914.7 miles driven
I drove through many named places, four corners, wyes and switches, hamlets and villages. ...
2008 July Photo Trip
192 photos
1173 miles driven in search of lost treasure.
The following is a list of locales I passed through. Some places still exist, others are served only by memory.
'Day One' started in Grand Rapids,...
2008 June Photo Trip
176 photos
What started as a trip to visit my father, turned into quite the surprise of an "across-the-state" adventure. (Somewhat planned, of course, hoping to stumble upon something interesting.)
2007 August Photo Trip
170 photos
The overnight was the 26th and 27th of August 2007. I did some pickups on the 3rd of September because I ran out of light on the second day.
When I started out on this journey, I was hoping to find...
Broken Souls
4954 photos
Handmade dwellings with forgotten dreams.
Michigan Barns
483 photos
barns
storage
outbuildings
etc.
Michigan Schoolhouses
704 photos
Michigan Water
668 photos
Michigan Detail
517 photos
Michigan Burying Grounds
593 photos
Kent County Burying Grounds
132 photos
"Portraits" of People Who Founded, Flourished, and Resided in Kent County, Michigan
Michigan Log Buildings
156 photos
Dude, Where's My Car?
675 photos
Michigan Drinks Gas
129 photos
Michigan Signs
195 photos
Michigan Fall Colors
135 photos
Alcona County
33 photos
Alcona means “fine” or “excellent plan”. Established as Negwegon County in 1840, it was changed to Alcona in 1843; the county being formally organized in 1869. In 1890 the county was...
Alger County
336 photos
Allegan County
16 photos
Alpena County
20 photos
Antrim County
80 photos
Arenac County
23 photos
The name meaning is Latin in origin for “sandy place”. This tract of land was organized as a county in 1831. Only 6 of its 17 post office s remain today.
Melita, MI
Originally on the Rifle...
Baraga County
206 photos
Barry County
121 photos
Benzie County
22 photos
Branch County
15 photos
Cheboygan County
48 photos
Chippewa County
93 photos
Charlevoix County
18 photos
Clare County
72 photos
Clare County was founded in 1840 as Kaykakee and formally organized in 1871. It was named after the County Clare in Ireland. Clare County was an area of 366,080 acres covered in white pine. In...
Clinton County
8 photos
Crawford County
14 photos
Originally named Shawano and changed to Crawford in 1843.
In 1927, Karen Hartwick (daughter of Nels Michelson, a founding partner of the Salling-Hanson logging company) purchased over 8,000 acres of...
Delta County
166 photos
Dickinson County
65 photos
Eaton County
24 photos
Emmet County
60 photos
Gladwin County
35 photos
Another county deeply rooted in logging. Aside from the Michigan Central Railroad and the Pere Marquette Railroad, several private narrow gauge railroads served the industry of logging. Gladwin...
Gogebic County
280 photos
Grand Traverse County
127 photos
Originally the land was called “Omeena” which means “the point beyond”. In 1851 it was to become Grand Traverse County. There is much written on Grand Traverse County (along with Leelenau...
Gratiot County
29 photos
Hillsdale County
8 photos
Houghton County
771 photos
Huron County
676 photos
Ionia County
152 photos
Iosco County
5 photos
I need to write a brief history of Iosco County...
Iargo Springs, MI
Iargo means “many waters”. It is a natural spring in the ground for pure water; feeding the Au Sable River. It has been...
Iron County
175 photos
Isabella County
31 photos
Jackson County
30 photos
Kalkaska County
291 photos
The first post office was established in 1869, in Clearwater two years prior to being an established county. Kalkaska had 42 former towns, 17 post offices and only 3 post offices remain today. ...
Kent County
201 photos
Keweenaw County
430 photos
Lake County
96 photos
Aishcum was the unorganized county’s given name, but was changed in 1843. In 1850, the beginning of the Northport-Newaygo State Road was commenced (not a “road” by today’s standards); which...
Lapeer County
30 photos
Leelanau County
69 photos
Lenawee County
3 photos
Luce County
79 photos
Mackinac County
212 photos
Manistee County
37 photos
Marquette County
245 photos
Mason County
154 photos
Mecosta County
154 photos
Mecosta means “bear cub”, named in honour of Chief Mecosta. Mecosta County was organized in 1859 by taking land from Kent and Newaygo counties. In June 1869 the Grand Rapids & Indiana...
Menominee County
151 photos
Missaukee County
73 photos
Missaukee means “mouth of a large river”. The county was formed in 1871. The first logging camp was built near Vogel Center on the Clam River in 1865. The first road was built near Falmouth in...
Montcalm County
146 photos
Muskegon County
65 photos
Newaygo County
138 photos
Newaygo “Great Water” was the name of a Chippewa Chief. It was formed in 1851 from the land of Muskegon, Oceana and Kent counties. Only 7 of the original 53 post offices from the lumber era...
Oceana County
198 photos
Ogemaw County
6 photos
The county was named by Ki-Keto, Chief of the Ogemaw (Ottawa), and its meaning is “chief” or “head speaker”. The land was organized in 1873 and reorganized in 1875, from Cheboygan, Midland...
Ontonagon County
383 photos
Osceola County
289 photos
In 1840 this tract of land was first called “Unwattin”, after an Ottawa Indian chief. It was give the name Osceola in 1843; which means “black drink” or possibly “rising sun”. The land...
Otsego County
21 photos
Ottawa County
47 photos
Presque Isle County
99 photos
St. Clair County
8 photos
St. Joseph County
16 photos
Saginaw County
70 photos
Sanilac County
142 photos
Schoolcraft County
75 photos
Shiawassee County
45 photos
Tuscola County
180 photos
Van Buren County
34 photos
Wexford County
135 photos
Kautawaubet was its original name, but changed to Wexford in 1843, after a county in Ireland. It was officially a county in 1869. Its first settlement was Sherman in 1863 and was also the first...
Albert Gebben Farm
13 photos
Albert Gebben, 1865-1952.
He is buried at Reeman Cemetery in Sheridan Township.
Albert Gebben may have emigrated from Grafschaft Bentheim, Germany. Many Gebben’s came to Michigan from this...
Alexandria - Christ Church
14 photos
Writing by Leigh Goessl
Christ Church is an active parish and has been since the 18th century. The Church still stands today much like it did in colonial times and weekly worship has continued for...
Allenville
38 photos
Aman Park
14 photos
20 January 2009 Aman Park; near Grand Rapids, Michigan
Assinins Community Cemetery
15 photos
from the sign at the gate
As far as anyone can remember, this burial ground has been here. We know that the Chippewa Nation was casting their nets in Keweenaw Bay in the 1600's. In our cultural...
Aurora Cemetery
14 photos
Bay Port Cemetery
15 photos
Bodie
92 photos
Boyne Falls Matelski Home
37 photos
Calumet
113 photos
Candelaria
33 photos
Central
51 photos
Cleveland + 100 House
20 photos
Cliff Catholic Cemetery
37 photos
Worth noting the very Germanic and Irish collective here...a reminder of a very long ago connectivity of Celtic beginnings.
Conklin IOOF
10 photos
Built in 1898 in Conklin, MI. The International Order of Odd Fellows hall, Lodge #291. This looks like one of those "if these walls could tell stories" structures; I bet there were a lot...
Coopersville
18 photos
Copper Harbor Cemetery
15 photos
Delaware Mine
17 photos
“The Delaware is a mine with a long and convoluted history, so much so that it suffers from a rather chronic and cumbersome identity crisis. As is the case with most mines along the Keweenaw, the...
Detroit Kodak T3200 Film
68 photos
Detroit
127 photos
The Heidelberg Project
16 photos
Detroit "Brush Park"
76 photos
Foolishly, I decided I was going to walk around and photograph old houses with my 35mm. It cost me $42.00 (that's all I had on me) to walk around be feel safer. The man who requested that I should...
Quarries
23 photos
The swimming hole.
It was right out of a Hollywood movie or a sappy paperback.
I didn’t realize how magical this place was when growing up. I imagined everyone had a private world where they...
Fayette
47 photos
Fiborn Quarry
42 photos
Fiborn Quarry was created by a partnership of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad in 1904. This small company town was built to house the workers (homes and a boarding house), offer a...
Fort Wilkins
18 photos
In the early 1840s, a copper rush took place, with fortune-seekers moving from all directions to the peninsula. The U.S. government was concerned about possible disorder and violence, and lake...
Games
21 photos
A scenic look at some favourite games.
Gary IN
32 photos
Grand Rapids
524 photos
Grand Rapids - Fulton Street Cemetery
40 photos
Grand Rapids - Oakhill Cemetery
24 photos
Grand Rapids - Clique Lanes
31 photos
20 January 2008 Grand Rapids Flickr Group meetup at "The Clique" bowling lanes; Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Grand Rapids Bicycle - Factory
13 photos
The Bicycle Factory, 514 Butterworth, Grand Rapids, MI. At the corner of Butterworth and Front streets. The Bicycle Factory went up in flames on the evening of 27 February 2007. I went back for...
Halfa
12 photos
Halfa, Iowa captures:
18 October 2008; the church of Halfa, Iowa.
Halfa was town platted in 1899 by the Western Town Lot Company of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. The East and West...
Hallock
7 photos
The first settler’s arrived in the 1870’s.
Hallock received its name from Benjamin Hallock. He donated the land for the town and requested his name to title the place. The Benjamin Hallock...
Hannah
19 photos
Hannah Road, south of Hannah, Michigan.
This is one of my favourites from my overnight photo trip. It isn't the most beautiful or most dynamically photogenic either. I like it because it shows the...
Hayes
13 photos
Hayes, Michigan
This land was settled in the 1850's by Charles Leipprandt. It is believed that he came to Huron County as part of the Ora Labora religious community founded near Bay Port. There...
Herman
17 photos
Herman Keranen was born November 5, 1862 in Puolanka, Oulun Laani, Finland.
Herman began in 1901. Herman Keranen started "Herman" as a logging camp settlement. He worked the area for...
Herrington
26 photos
This house is currently located on the Musketawa Trail north of Marne (Berlin), MI. This intersection of rail-meets-road was almost at the Herrington railroad station served by the Grand Rapids...
Hodges Schoolhouse
12 photos
Hodges Schoolhouse. On M-113 near Kingsley, Michigan.
A part of: Overnight Photo Trip 2007
I hope somebody saves this schoolhouse. It is a very solid building. And please, no vinyl siding or...
Houghton County Infirmary and Poor House
25 photos
Information is a little scant on this location, but I have found reference to a facility being here as early as January 18, 1872.
100 acres of land were purchased and cleared, on which were grown...
Indiana
10 photos
Indiana State Sanatorium
129 photos
Iowa
21 photos
Irish Hollow Cemetery
24 photos
Ontonagon County
Jacob Swarthout House
15 photos
Jacob Swarthout, farmer, section 32, Sherman Township, was born in Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y., August 16, 1842 (D. September 20, 1917, buried in Grandville, Michigan).
John Swarthout (1810-1898),...
Jacobsville Cemetery
13 photos
Jenison Auto Garage
26 photos
Kilmanagh
78 photos
27 October 2007; the old General Store in Kilmanagh, Michigan.
This is the town my grandmother was born in. This building is also said to be an auto dealership at one point in time.
Kinde Road
25 photos
A great 'ol farmhouse on Kinde Rd. between Badgley Corners and Lewsiville, MI.; with Willow Creek flowing nearby.
In the heart of the "Thumb" on the edge of Huron Township in Huron County.
London Cemetary
16 photos
On my way to the underground (somewhere St. James Park Park station), I ducked through a set of large metal gates and snapped off some images of the wonderful sculpture memorials. I couldn't find a...
McCarty or Ure Cemetery
24 photos
Middleville IOOF Cemetery
30 photos
Millbrook
16 photos
M.J. Hogan Elevator
6 photos
The M.J. Hogan Grain Elevator is the earliest remaining grain elevator built along the Illinois & Michigan Canal. The elevator, constructed in 1861-1862 by John Armour, allowed local farmers to...
Mossback
38 photos
“Mossback”, a term used to describe "extreme conservative, one attached to antiquated notions," 1874, American English, used especially of poor rural whites; earlier (1872) in reference...
Muir
14 photos
26 July 2009; Muir, Michigan in Ionia County. some of the storefronts which are in the process of a renovation.
Muskegon Hackley House
34 photos
The Hackley and Hume House; Muskegon, Michigan. 25 October 2007.
Muskegon County Museum-Hackley House
This place is very much worth the visit. I highly recommend making the venture at least once...
Nevada
56 photos
Las Vegas is incredibly boring so I drove off into the desert towards El Dorado Canyon. An old mining town is on the way.
Old 131 Campground
11 photos
Site 11 ... along the Manistee River
Olympus Auto Bellows
10 photos
Painesdale
27 photos
Painesdale, Michigan and the Champion Mine
Pilgrim Haven
17 photos
In 1994, I went back to where my earliest childhood memories were founded -- Camp Pilgrim Haven in South Haven, MI; on Lake Michigan. Finding the place in such disrepair left me beyond depressed. ...
Pine Grove Cemetery
94 photos
I find this one of the most intriguing burying ground in Michigan. Quiet, dark, unkempt -- but yet, not...
Port Austin
50 photos
Port Austin - Szymanski Farm
7 photos
This is Tom Szymanski's farm. A classmate of mine brought to my attention that "the milkhouse has split. Do you want to take some pictures of it before it is gone?"
So be it.
Huron County, Michigan in 1953
32 photos
Pictures are from Michigan Tradesman issue on October 28, 1953
Port Crescent Cemetary 1984
9 photos
One of my first attempts at using my mother's 35mm Nikon with her boss' lens. Out of 36 exposres, this is all that turned out. They actually are B&W but this is how my scanner saw them in color...
Quincy Mine
152 photos
Quincy Mine Smelter
44 photos
Old Rockford Cemetery
20 photos
Rose Cemetery
14 photos
A Methodist Cemetery.
Many of the headstones I photographed are facing east, which is looking uphill in these woods.
Germanic-Swiss in origins?
Saginaw Potter Street Station
27 photos
"Union Station" Pere Marquette Railroad Depot on Potter Street" in Saginaw, Michigan.
This depot was built in 1881; Bradford L. Gilbert, architect.
It is on the National Historic...
Salvage Yard
10 photos
Savannah Colonial Park Cemetery
22 photos
Historic Colonial Park Cemetery
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=33357
Abercorn and Oglethorpe Streets
The Colonial Park Cemetery, one of Savannah’s most beautiful...
Schoolcraft Cemetery
35 photos
Founded in 1865. Houghton County.
Senter
28 photos
Atlas Powder Company.
“The mine’s of the Copper Country were generally self-reliant except for three things which they could not find along the peninsula: coal, iron, and explosives. For that...
Sitka
9 photos
A Canon 30D on 21 October 2007, a borderline stormy day. A quiet little four corners in the Southwest corner of Newaygo County, Michigan.
Sunflowers
19 photos
07 August 2007. Of all places, this was a mile south of Garden, Michigan. A Velvia 100F adventure.
Torch Lake Dredge
17 photos
Quincy Mill Site on Torch Lake
Traverse City State Hospital
370 photos
Traverse City State Hospital on Film
135 photos
Trent
22 photos
Muskegon County, forgotten place.
US-2
113 photos
The following information was pulled from www.michiganhighways.org/ which is a tremendous resource for finding out the originals paths of our highways.
The inspiration for this came from driving...
Utah
11 photos
Utah 19th to the 24th of July 2007.
Vermillion
24 photos
This set was shot on 23 September 2007.
The Vermillion Life Saving Station was built in 1876. It is located about 9.5 miles west of Whitefish Point (in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula). It was built...
Victoria
23 photos
Shallow pits indicate ancient miners were here for centuries before Alexander Henry arrived in 1766. The site was not explored again until the mid 1800's.
The mine first opened in 1849 as the Cushin...
Washington DC
62 photos
Washington D.C. - Rock Creek Cemetery
11 photos
Washington DC
Watson
33 photos
Watson, Michigan
Marquette County
CR426
Budapest
48 photos
May 2007. I visited Budapest on my way to Timisoara. [No reframing or resizing was performed; but a hint of colour tweaking was necessary.]
Budapest to Timisoara
23 photos
Some images from along the road from Budapest to Timisoara. What happens along the way? Not much except a uniquely pastoral existence.
Timisoara
86 photos
May 2007. Images from time spent in Timisoara.
Kallie
71 photos
κάλλος
kallos
beautiful
Nikolai
60 photos
2000-2011
Bella
23 photos
1999-2009
Tonka
126 photos
2001-2015
Spirit
16 photos
1997-2006
Niquita
13 photos
1996-2001
2017 Kruse Park
21 photos
2013 Kruse Park
13 photos
2009 Kruse Park
12 photos
22 March 2009; Lake Michigan at Kruse Park, Muskegon.
Kruse Park 2008
19 photos
Kruse Park 27 July 2008
2007 Kruse Park
12 photos
2007 February Kruse Park
It's always nice to get a day at the beach. Especially when you have it all to yourself...and some dogs and friends. My favourite months at the beach are December through...
2007 Saugatuck Dunes
60 photos
May 2007
Just a nice day for a walk with the dogs.
Russell Hogan
3 photos
My grandfather, Russell Hogan. Posted 04 July 2007.
Michigan Logging History
33 photos
I am using these old photos and postcards to illustrate the saga of the Michigan Timber Industry. There are many more pictures to choose from but I hope these few will illustrate the hardships early...