Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: plant

Not all our flowers are blue.

Underneath our picture window, in the spring of 2005. This is one of the very first pictures I took with my FujiFilm F10. We didn't locate this plant well. It's surrounded by Dame's Rockets and lilies, and the occasional volunteer sunflower--so just seeing the plant's a little difficult, and taking its photo can be a challenge....

The cardinals, in particular, are pleased it's there.

Minnesota Power's Laskin Energy Center, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken last week; scanned from slide.

A small piece of LTV's taconite processing plant at Erie Mining Company, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Polymet , a mining company with a fairly large northern Minnesota property, plans to use the plant for processing copper and other non-ferrous ores. Taken during the recent convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Lansing's Board of Water and Light's Erickson Power Plant in Delta Township, Michigan; photo taken across the pond where I work. On cold, clear, days, Erickson's ability to churn out steam has always been pretty impressive.

The large buildings at Erie Mine are actually three separate but closely-related plants--an ore crusher, an aggregator which separates the iron from the waste rock, and a taconite pellet plant which packages the ore into the pellets that the steel mill furnaces expect. Near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

A railfan views an abandoned gondola outside the ( temporarily ) abandoned taconite plant at the Cliffs-Erie location, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Another photo from our excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society in early August.

This is the crusher building at LTV's large open pit mine near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota--the place goes by a variety of (historical) names, the most recent of which is Cliffs-Erie (Cliffs being the mine's manager; Erie being the mine's name). The Hoyt Lakes plant is the oldest taconite processing plant in existence, dating from the mid-1950s. The processing plant's been optioned to Polymet; the rest of the complex is available.... This photo really doesn't give a proper perspective; that building would be huge in any setting. Taken during a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

I was trespassing. I admit it. Palmer, Michigan; the edge of an open pit iron mining operation run by Cleveland Cliffs. Sometime in the late 1980s. This plant processes taconite ore (rock) into pellets for shipping to steel plants "down the lakes." Nowadays you can take guided tours of the Tilden Mine, which is adjacent to this property. I've not yet done so, but I shall. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100. Scanned from a print.

Memorial Day weekend, 1990, from the deck of Boblo boat St. Clair . Taken on the annual river outing of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit . My memory says the boat at the coal dock was James Barker , but I consider that unreliable. I'm gonna be paying for my fast film habit forever....

A flower a day for January .... Gorgeous miniature delicate flowers. And the most aggressive plant in a fairly aggressive garden.

A flower a day for January ....

This one's for Tarboat, who asked if I'd taken more photos of Esser Steel's Algoma works. At Soo, Ontario. I do. There will be more....

I'd manage a far better version of this photo on February 24 , and post that to 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here . This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps .

Feeding birds generates volunteer sunflowers. You'd think they'd all be similar sunflowers, but it's pretty clear that the birdseed providers just sell us whatever seeds they can get. By summer's end we have tall and short sunflowers, large- and small-faced sunflowers, impressive and nondescript sunflowers. This one grew in a planter, and the planter's (ray-like) spikes in the background somehow managed to survive until January (of last year). All in all, I rather like the effect. This could be considered a daily-photo outtake, too, since it came from the 1/6/2012 folder. The photograph doesn't really work as monochrome, but I rather like it with color. So I offer it here for your edification. Whatever. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here .