Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: college

Olivet College. I need to go back with a different selection of lenses on a brighter day.

Posting this photo because I read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom last week. One of Franzen's scenes takes place in "a senior dorm" at Mac; had the author done just a bit more homework, he'd likely have mentioned Kirk. Well, Kirk was a senior dorm when I was a senior, anyway. In 1982. In 1967, when I was a freshman (long story, not today), Dupre & Doty were new and all the seniors wanted to live there. So I lived in Kirk, in a single. Life was different in the old days. Didn't much like the book, for whatever that's worth.

A flower a day for January .... This Iris lives at Macalester College, in front of Kagin Commons (which, oddly, I still think of as NDH, even though it's no longer either N ew nor a D ining H all--and had already been renamed after Dr. Kagin when I returned to school for my senior year).

I no longer recall why I drove to Kalamazoo a year ago today--likely someone had a medical appointment--but I figured to stop at another college on my way home. I considered finding a picture on Western Michigan's campus, but decided against that. My next thought was Hillsdale College, where I'd never visited, but that was too far out of the way. So Albion, only a few miles off one of my usual routes between home and Kalamazoo, became my day's photography target. I'd not been on the campus since high school track meets, and frankly all I remembered was the stadium. Found the school, parked the car, and wandered around a bit, scoping out potential photographs. I found a fairly picturesque college campus, near but not of the downtown, arranged around a rather large quadrangle. Took my pictures, returned to my car, and continued on my way. Oh, yes. Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium looks much like I remembered it. ========== The Vulgamore Hall photo (below) that I posted to 366 Snaps is one of my favorite photos from the entire project. And it seems that nearly every college in the country has a Rock that they consider sacred, or unique, or something. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 12 Title of " roll :" Albion College Other photos taken on 9/20/2012: none.

Olivet's a college town, and the village's most recognizable landmark is this tower. I nearly moved to Olivet, once, many years back, but ended up somewhere else. Never been sure I made the right choice.... ========== Visited my sister in her new (nursing home) digs last August 9. Stopped for breakfast before leaving the Lansing area, then briefly wandered around Olivet on my way there. For the most part the 80-200 mm wasn't an appropriate lens on the tree-lined Olivet College campus, as there are few clear shots of anything. As you'll see, I'd return a few weeks later with a different camera. Took the back roads home. The rehab center's a few miles directly south of Three Lakes, where my dad and I often fished when I was young. I lingered there a while, taking pix with two cameras, then dodged construction projects in the Richland area before heading toward Mulliken on roads I'd not travelled in years. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 29 Title of " roll :" Olivet College - Three Lakes Other photos taken on 8/9/2012: I already mentioned the Three Lakes pictures I took with the V1.

Since I wanted something really different for the day's photographs, I headed for the MSU campus a year ago. I don't know Michigan State's campus as well as a student would, or even an alumnus, but generally speaking I can find my way around, especially if I stay near the Circle. Parked next to the Natural Science Building on Farm Lane, then headed in the direction of Beal Garden. ========== The Natural Science Building's a sprawling, not-particularly-attractive building. I used to occasionally wander into the library in the building, researching something or other in what seems like another life. This pic's more or less from where I parked my car. ========== To the extent the trip had a specific destination, that was Beal Garden. Where I found the new-since-I-last-looked gate I photographed for 366 Snaps . ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 65 Title of " roll :" Michigan State Campus Other photos taken on 7/12/2012: The Daily Flower Census returned after a brief outage. The yard was simply awesome.