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----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:15 PM Subject: Re: OT Grand Rapids Michigan > Thanks Mark and everyone else. > > Back from a 1 day trip here locally, and now i find out, a possible > trip monday to Janesville Wis. > > Escort a conveyor. Follow all the way, which is good, cause my only US > driving experinces so far are following MR to GFM.:-0 > > Just might get that Chigaco street line form the window.:-) I';ll > bring some blues CD;s to pass the time. > > Dave > > On 10/16/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Dave - >> >> I'm about 45 minutes from GR and Holland. >> >> The waterfront in Holland offers a lot of good photo >> ops. The city is built around a good sized lake that >> connects to Lake Michigan. There is a pretty >> distinctive lighthouse - 'Big Red' where the lakes >> join. The lighthouse is on the south side of the >> channel, but is best shot from the north, looking >> across the channel. There's a state park there with >> some low dunes, woods, beach stuff. >> >> Grand Haven, about 30 minutes to the north, has a good >> size lighthouse as well. Very nice boardwalk along the >> beach that runs along another channel from the >> renovated city center all the way through another good >> sized state park. There's a Coast Guard station there >> and the opportunity to catch the cutters in action. >> >> To the south of Holland - another half hour - is >> Saugutuck, an artsy lakefront community with one of >> the biggest and nicest beaches / lake shore parks in >> the state. >> >> Weather along the lake is always unpredictable. There >> is little color change here so far this year - very >> late season this year. The woods along the lake always >> change late - so I doubt that you'll see many peak >> color areas next week. I was shooting in the Allegan >> Forest yesterday - it pushes right up within 20 miles >> of Holland. Aside from the sumac and some weedy trees, >> it was as green as late July. >> >> Here's a shot of the Holland lighthouse - >> >> http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/lighthouses/020901.htm >> >> And Grand Haven - >> >> http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/lighthouses/0308l01.htm >> >> Oh yeah - sunsets along the lake can be nice as well. >> >> - MCC >> >> --- David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > There is a chance i will be going to Grand Rapids, >> > more specifically >> > Holland, Michigan for an escort trip to Sault Ste >> > Marie next week, and >> > then points beyond back in Canada. >> > >> > Probably no time to visit, but, camera worthy >> > area????? >> > :-) >> > >> > Dave >> > >> > -- >> > Equine Photography >> > www.caughtinmotion.com >> > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> > Ontario Canada >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > PDML@pdml.net >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> > directly above and follow the directions. >> > >> >> >> -------------------------- >> Mark Cassino Photography >> Kalamamazoo, MI >> www.markcassino.com >> >> Photo Books: >> www.lulu.com/cassino >> -------------------------- >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Need a vacation? Get great deals >> to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. >> http://travel.yahoo.com/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.13/1075 - Release Date: > 10/17/2007 9:38 AM > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
