Re: OT: Sleeping Bear lakeshore

[Stan Halpin]

We are in that neighborhood every summer (family cabin about 
20 miles away.) It is awesome. Of the hundreds of shots I 
have taken in and around the dunes with 645 and 35mm, print 
and transparency, I have never shot a wide shot that I am 
pleased with. I have many flower or weed or texture or stone 
macros, but it is truly hard to capture the breadth and 
depth of that scene. I have several shots which I have 
thought about, planned for, previsualized, taken my time 
with, and they just are not right. Maybe this summer, with a 
digital, it will be different...

stan

Stephen Moore wrote:

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