Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: fields

A couple miles down the way it picks up again....

I pass this view every time I drive to Kalamazoo and have been promising myself I'd catch it in a photo. So today I stopped. Saddlebag Lake Road, south of Woodbury, Michigan.

Gates Road in Eaton County, Michigan, as it happens, but I was trying for a generic Midwestern photograph.

I really like the way these folks planted a few trees across the road from their house. The trees give the yard a really distinctive look, which I've long admired. Strange Highway's named after an early settler family--second generation family member Daniel Strange wrote the best of the Eaton County histories. Photo shot from Dow Road, not far from Little Venice.

For some reason our eyes/brains accept the distortions introduced by telephoto lenses more readily than we accept extreme wide angles. The farthest trees in this photo are about three miles off; the nearest less than a mile. Roxand Township, Michigan, from Needmore Road--more or less at a place some maps show as Kelly.

And surrounding farmlands, of course. The drain itself is marked by the trees and underbrush but is not directly visible from this location. Some of the creeks around here have really stupid names.

And stubble.

This is a few miles from my home. I was aiming to photograph the daylilies but the entire picture came out quite nicely. I particularly like the corn fields bracketing the road up ahead. I've spent the last three days in nearly continuous meetings at a convention in Toronto; it's been an excellent weekend, but you've already seen my best shots of Toronto and I'm sure you don't want to see the pictures I've been taking of seminar presenters and committee chairmen. I'm ready to head home, and ride the bike again.

A year ago I toured Sebewa Township in an effort to break out of my boredom with the photographs I'd been shooting in and around Mulliken. On the whole the venture was successful as I came back with some fine, albeit mostly underexposed, photographs. I found barns, open fields, and a bulldozer on a beam. ( Yes. As absurd as it sounds. Mebbe someday I'll show you. ) This view is near the north edge of the township, from Knoll Road. This really large open space is pretty rare around here. Since I found myself on a little knoll (couldn't resist; sorry), I took a couple shots. This is the better photo of the pair. I used this pic as my cover photo on Facebook a few months back. I may [did!] do so again tonight.... ========== Joan doesn't always ask about my day's plan, but she often does. This day I told her I'd likely find myself a photo of some hunter's pickup for 366 Snaps . And so it went. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 32 Title of " roll :" Sebewa, mostly Other photos taken on 11/15/2012: none.