Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: ohio

The appealing young lady is Lily, the daughter of Captain J.J. Sands of the Valley Gem Sternwheeler. To quote from the Gem's website : "In 2005 ... Lily entered the world and she has been chatting ever since." Seems true. Delightful.

It always delights me to find someone's made a home of an apparently inhospitable place.

Downtown Marietta, Ohio.

Another view of the Harmar bridge in Marietta, Ohio; one last shot from the Valley Gem Sternwheeler before we move on to West Virginia.

The view into Ashtabula, Ohio, from the edge of the town's big commercial harbor , sometime in 1991. Isn't that bascule bridge across the Ashtabula River just gorgeous? Notice the rail yard in the distance; it's a continuation of the harbor yard shown in the other photo.

That neat conveyor again, and the Ashtabula Coast Guard Station. The entry to Ashtabula Harbor--or part of the harbor, anyway. 1991. Camera: Chinon Genesis III.

Somehow downtown Cincinnati has six bridges across the Ohio. All are interesting; this one is beautiful. Photo taken July 15, 2004, near the gate of Great American Ballpark (shooting across the hole where Riverfront Stadium used to be).

Former B&O bridge across the Muskingum River in Marietta, Ohio; now a footbridge. The leftmost span is a turnstile. The Ohio River (and West Virginia) in the background; the barges are at the Corps of Engineers landing. Shot (of course) from the Valley Gem.

My favorite harbor: Conneaut, Ohio, as it looked in 1991. This was one of the busiest harbors in the world for much of the twentieth century (it's Lake Erie's nearest port to Pittsburgh), and remains busy enough to be interesting. All packed into a remarkably small area . The harbor's not very wide, and less than a half mile long. The black mechanical thingies are Hulett Unloaders --wonderful and improbable contraptions whose mission in life was unloading iron ore from large ships. They'd already been retired when this photo was taken and have since been removed. Self-unloading ships are doubtless more efficient, and are clearly more versatile, but they're far less interesting to watch.

The Steel Corp's gorgeous Cason J. Callaway takes on coal in 1991. This is what I like about Conneaut.

The harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, on a cloudy but sunlit day in 1991. We'd started the day in Kalamazoo, driven to Erie, Pennsylvania, then began working our way back home with stops at most of Ohio's Lake Erie harbors. Each harbor has its own personality.... The "bridge" is a conveyor between the coal (taconite?) yard/dock (off the screen to your left) and the trains beyond the Coast Guard station. No idea what that ship is. Camera: Chinon Genesis III. Added to Cream of the Crop as my current personal favorite picture.

From second to third. Original photo here . 293 game photos here .

And all is well with the world. Original picture (not much different) here . Two hundred or so others from the game here .

Conneaut, Ohio, in 1991. Another photo from the Lake Erie ports excursion I mentioned a couple days back. Camera: Chinon Genesis III

Ashtabula, Ohio. Taken in 1991, on a day we spent wandering from harbor to harbor on the south shore of Lake Erie. Camera: Chinon Genesis III