Author: Jim
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Fall Leaves below El Capitan
Yosemite National Park, California. November 1989. Remastered 2025.
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Michellaneous Details
This week’s post features a collection of small details from my time in Michigan, like the leaves, above, that are starting to dry out before they fall. The way they are lit by a spot of sunlight really makes them stand out and their texture pop. At 400mm, I was using all the lens I
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Unbroken
Traverse City, Michigan. October 2025.
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Recovery at the State Hospital
One of the more interesting places I visited in Traverse City, Michigan, is the site of the old Traverse City State Hospital (originally known as the Northern Michigan Asylum) which operated for over a century from 1885 until 1989. After sitting abandoned for over a decade, the site began to be redeveloped into the Village
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Top of the Morning
Traverse City, Michigan. October 2025.
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Michigan Barns
The barn above was just around the corner from where we stayed last month in Traverse City, Michigan, so it was an easy target for a brief photo outing before I started work for the day. This was one of those situations where you had to choose between color in the sky early and light
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Ascension
Finikia, Santorini, Greece. April 2022.
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Michigan Five-O
The title of this post is a nod to the popular TV show of my youth, of which I remember nothing other than the intro and theme song and a single oft-repeated line: “Book ’em, Danno.” While Hawaii was the fiftieth state to join the Union (from which the TV show got its name), it
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A Streetcar Lacking Desire
Casper Mountain, Wyoming. May 2025.
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Hummingbirds in Wyoming
This week we take a break from our usual assortment of neglected structures for something completely different. After our few days in Cheyenne (covered in the last two posts) we spent a week up on Casper Mountain. The house/cabin we rented was well-equipped with hummingbird feeders and no shortage of hummingbirds. I’ve gotten a smattering