Lake Michigan

Door County, Wisconsin.

Door County, Wisconsin. Lake Michigan at its finest.

At the foot of the East Arm of Traverse Bay, Traverse City, Michigan. As Larry points out in his comment, the "undeveloped" beach is Traverse City State Park. This photograph used to get 6 views a day, like clockwork, and became (therefore) my most-viewed photo on Flickr. I'd sure like to know why....

The walkway to the Pier Light at the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal entrance in Wisconsin's Door County.

Sturgeon Bay Ship Channel Coast Guard Station breakwater. Listening to the Brewers game....

Two more passengers from our Lake Michigan crossing on SS Badger.

Lake Michigan, off the stern of SS Badger.

There's some sort of large construction project going on at the harbor in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. These folks were doing some of the work the day we were there. Photo shot from the deck of SS Badger.

South Haven, Michigan. This was only a moderately windy day....

Lake Michigan. Door County, Wisconsin.

A pretty overlook at the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. Across the road from here .

Another Cathead Bay photograph from last September. Leelanau State Park , at the end of Michigan's "little finger." Memorial: Norris Ingells, a photographer whose skills always captivated and delighted me, passed away Friday . I only knew him from his photographs and his writing, but it's a great loss nonetheless. One of Lansing's great treasures. -Added to the www.flickr.com/groups/cotc/ in the morning on December 20, 2005. Explored! #19 on Sunday, July 29, 2007, where it remains. Thanks, everyone!

Another of Dad's 1973 pictures of Leland's Fishtown . Camera: Argus C3

Another scan from Dad's Argus C3 slides taken in 1973. This is Lake Michigan, but I really can't be much more precise than "somewhere around Sleeping Bear Dunes." If forced to guess, I'd suspect it's at Glen Arbor, just from the slide sequence. But I'd not depend on that. Pretty and peaceful, whereever it was. It's clear to me that my photography was influenced by my father's--and that his was influenced by mine. It's something more than we vacationed the same places; I see the same sorts of photo ops that Dad did. That's OK, of course.

This could be almost anywhere on Lake Michigan; it's probably somewhere around Petoskey. Mom & Dad were staying in Good Hart that vacation, I think. One of a set of similarly generic--but very pretty--Lake Michigan slides, some of which I imagine I'll post. They include a couple shots of that impressive rock. 1976, probably with Dad's Argus C3.

Fayette State Park , Garden Peninsula, Michigan. Fayette's at the north end of Lake Michigan, across Big Bay de Noc from Escanaba and really not far from Green Bay. That's Snail Shell Harbor in the foreground. I've labelled some of the buildings with notes. Taken from the trail atop the limestone cliffs . Camera: Nikon N90s. June, 1998.

Joan at Jolli-Lodge, near Leland, Michigan. Lake Michigan in the background. Camera: Nikon N90s. Labor Day weekend, 1999.

Jolli has a central lodge--that's this building--and a fairly large number of cabins and other dwellings scattered around the grounds. Lake Michigan's just barely visible in the lower left corner. Camera: Nikon N90s. 1999; near Leland, Michigan.