Sleeping Bear is about 300 miles northwest of Detroit. Great photo ops there. I've done some shooting there, but not extensive. Tends to get crowded in the summer. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT: Sleeping Bear lakeshore
> While browsing a local remainder/closeout store (Ollie's) > over the weekend, I came across a fascinating landscape > photo book: _Views from the Sleeping Bear: Photographs of > the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore_, by Thomas > Kachadurian. The ISBN is 1886947376; got it for four bucks > as a remainder. > > What a spectacularly scenic (and apparently little-known) > part of the USA! Knocked my socks off... > > The photographer used mostly Mamiya medium format with > a 50mm lens, with a few shots on a Wista 4x5 and a Canon > 35mm. He uses Velvia and occasionally is a bit heavy-ish > on the polarizer -- which some here would find anathema -- > But it serves the subject, and the photographer obviously > loves the place. > > Mark Cassino (and other Upper-Midwestern PDMLers), do you > know this place? Have you ever shot there? > > Best regards, > Stephen Moore
