While I am a portrait photographer and photojournalist by trade, I enjoy challenging my artistic horizons. So, I brought the old Speed Graphic and Rolleiflex twin lens reflex film cameras. The film of choice: Kodak T-Max 400 ISO (for you photography fans out there). I used my Canon G9 digital camera to meter my lighting and composition. I haven't yet sent out the film for processing so the shots you see here were taken with either the G9 or the Nikon D300s.
Before heading to Door County, we stopped for a couple pictures of the City of Ludington tug located in Kewaunee, birthplace of Lake Michigan car ferry service. I always find Kewaunee haunting. I image that just a little over 20 years ago, the SS City of Midland made daily runs to this now recreational port from Ludington. At that time, the Midland's emphasis was carrying railroad cars. Decades before that, both the Pere Marquette (C&O, Chessie) and Ann Arbor car ferries made trips in this port. Today, there is only a sign to indicate car ferry docks, let alone railroad tracks, existed.
Next stop was Sturgeon Bay. I always have to drive by the Bay Shipping docks. At these docks the SS Badger and her sister, the SS Spartan, were built. It's pretty fascinating seeing the ships in drydock. While there were no ships in drydock there were a couple freighters and the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw moored for repairs. It's good to see these docks active.
We then headed to Egg Harbor. I just recently bought a new phone, an HTC Android-driven Hero, and wanted to try out the GPS, beyond just driving. So, it was my debut at geocaching. After about 20 minutes of trying to figure things out, Ron and I came across our first cache. We were addicted immediately and searched for several others and even placed one up near Sister Bay.
We eventually ended up at Gills Rock just before sunset. There, we photographed a couple of commercial fishing barges and then the sunset, of course. Heading back we came across an old car in front of a farm. It was after sunset, the best tool for this was the digital camera. It was a great scene.
After spending the night in Fish Creek we headed back up to Sister Bay. There, we found a great farm scene to photograph. Our geocaching search took us to a great county park, Sand Bay Park. We searched and searched for the cache there but I don't think it was there. We even had other people helping us.
Our next stop was Cana Island Lighthouse. I'm not usually a fan of photographing lighthouses in "normal" daylight but this was a pretty nice lighthouse. From there we winded back down, eventually making it to Sturgeon Bay and then back to Manitowoc waiting for the overnight cruise of the Badger.
There are some simple guidelines to a good photographic road trip: Stay off the highways (especially the expressways) as much as possible and don't photograph the same thing or same angle that everyone else does.
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- rob
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