Sleeping Bear is among the biggest of the dunes, but the whole west coast of the state is basically sand dunes. Warren Dunes towards the south part of the state are great, as are the dunes near Saguatuk. One of my favorite spots to shoot is in the woods on the inland side of the dunes near South Haven. It's basically just your standard beech-maple woods, but when you push west it suddenly gets sandy, you climb up about 20 feet dune, and suddenly find yourself standing at the top of a 100 foot dune, with the lake shore below.
As Bill and Ken noted, Michigan is a great place if you like beaches. The state has almost 3300 miles of shoreline!
- MCC
At 07:13 PM 2/23/2004 -0500, 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?
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
http://www.markcassino.com
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