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While Brad and I were photographing Michigan every Wednesday of 2014 for our book, Todd and Brad Reed’s Michigan: Wednesdays in the Mitten, I traveled to Mackinaw City on Tuesday, February 11, to scout out and be ready to shoot book images early the next morning. I wished this image I made that Tuesday evening in the Straits of Mackinac as the moon was rising would have appeared in front of my camera Wednesday so it could have been included in the Wednesdays book. It took seven years, but my Straits creation finally made its way into a book.

Mackinac Island

Cool Sunrise

Michigan's Pride

Mackinac Island

Mackinac Island Mackinac Bridge

Mackinac Bridge Rainbow

 

 

 

Nikon D850. F22 at 0.4 sec, ISO 100. 24-70mm lens at 38mm. On a tripod without a flash. February 29, 2020 at 6:15pm.

Nikon D810. F22 at 1/10, ISO 100. 17-35mm lens at 19mm. On a tripod without a flash. February 29, 2020 at 5:45pm.

Round Island Light Near Mackinac Island

Straits of Mackinac Ice Lighthouse

Fudge, bicycles, and horses can be seen nearly everywhere in the Mackinac Island business district. What you won't see are automobiles. People flock to Mackinac Island to experience its slower pace and its yesteryear appearance and way of life.

The grand porch of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island affords hotel visitors and guests one of the grandest views imaginable of the Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Bridge. Today I am most impressed with how the light and shadow are playing on the columns extending across the porch. D800, F7.1 at 1/400, ISO 100, 70-200mm lens at 70mm

The grand porch of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island affords hotel visitors and guests one of the grandest views imaginable of the Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Bridge. Today I am most impressed with how the light and shadow are playing on the columns extending across the porch.

The ferryboat ride to Mackinac Island is a good opportunity to capture some unique views of the Grand Hotel. My favorite part of this composition is the great cloud formation above the island. F10 at 1/800, ISO 400, 18-50mm lens at 50mm

The main way to get to Mackinac Island is by ferry. The Shepler's ferry, The Hope, cruises abeam the ferry Brad and I are shooting photographs from as we travel back to Mackinaw City. In the background an Arnold Line ferry heads for Mackinac Island. The Grand Hotel stands out on the island. F4.5 at 1/500, ISO 100, 14-24mm lens at 24mm

The 1004-foot-long Edwin H. Gott steams past Round Island Light in the Straits of Mackinac. The 105-foot wide Great Lakes freighter is capable of carrying a 74,100-ton cargo of taconite or other materials. F4 at 1/3200, ISO 100, 14-24mm lens at 14mm