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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
