Mackinaw City Michigan

Continued.... We also met photographer Monte Nagler from Farmington Michagan during our trip. He studied under Ansel Adams and has had his images shown in galleries throughout the United States.

The last two days of our trip took us to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore and then up US31 to Mackinaw City. The weather was a little gray both days but we managed to find a few slivers of sunshine hear and there. The sunrise on our last day was pretty awesome again. Now that we are back we have about 1600 images to edit. Here is another small sample.



This first image taken a sunrise. We got lucky with a small sliver of open sky between the water and the clouds. (Nikon D300 Nikkor70-200/f2.8G VR)


(Nikon D300 Nikkor 70-200/f2.8G VR)



Mackinac Bridge at Night (Nikon D700 Nikkor 70-200/2.8G VR)



Mackinaw City Lighthouse
(Nikon D700 Nikkor 24-70/2.8G)



Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore- It's a 450 drop to the bottom. Gray day but the people in the picture give you a sense of scale for the dune.
Nikon D700 24-70/2.8G

We are back home but would still love to be on the road.

Traverse City, Michigan

Angie and I decided to take a quick photo excursion to Traverse City, Michigan. We have been up to the Old Mission Point and the Leelanau State Park as well as several points in between. The sunrise on the first morning at Old Mission Point was one of the best sunrises I have ever seen. It seemed forever for the sun to come up over horizon and then break through several bands of clouds. After a morning (which started at 4am) we headed back to town for a quick breakfast and nap. Headed out to Front Street in Traverse City to see the shopping district. After a late lunch it was off to the Asylum ( a mental hospital that is being redeveloped into a mix use of retail, office and residential housing). It still has a ways to go and was a little creepy. Late afternoon it was up the coast of the West Bay to Omena for dinner before heading up to the Grand Traverse Lighthouse at Leelanua State Park and then finally ended up in Fishtown for sunset. We finally made it back to the hotel about 10:30PM. It was a short couple of hours to 5AM to get to Cherry Bend for some more sunrise pictures at a marina. This afternoon its off to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive.

4th of July at Rozzi's Continental Ballroom

I had an opportunity over the 4th of July holiday to take some images of ROZZI'S CATERING AND CONTINENTAL BALLROOM. It wasn't red white and blue but was lemon yellow and lime green...that is the whole Continental Ballroom was decorated with lemons and limes...it was awesome. It was a lot a fun and a challenge to capture the essence of the ballroom. Hopefully I was able to do that. Here are few images: