Tranquility is a photograph by Kris Rasmusson which was uploaded on May 6th, 2013.
Tranquility
For those of us lucky enough to live in west central Michigan a journey along Lake Shore Drive in Douglas Michigan is a sure way to clear any mental... more
Title
Tranquility
Artist
Kris Rasmusson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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For those of us lucky enough to live in west central Michigan a journey along Lake Shore Drive in Douglas Michigan is a sure way to clear any mental cobwebs and recollect how beautiful and elegant the world can be. I make the drive many times a year and always see something I hadn�t noticed before. For two miles the road hugs the ridge of the 200� dune. Lake Shore Drive used to flow all the way south to Pullman where it joined Blue Star highway. But Mother Nature had other plans in June of 2008 when a storm swept away the dune underneath the road which led to the death of two Grand Junction residents whose car rolled down the dune and into Lake Michigan below. I�m sad for the mourning families but glad the state has decided to not rebuild the road as this would have required driving steel pylons deep into the dunes and bringing in many tons of soil. Nature is an architect we shouldn�t ignore. About midway along the two mile stretch is a Victorian cottage that has always grabbed my attention by its charm and grandeur. It was on one of those hazy days when lake and sky merge and the shoreline had rippling waves that sound more like babbling brook than mighty lake that I decided to boldly venture onto the property with my Linhof Technica and compose a shot of the handsome cottage next to our beloved Lake Michigan.
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May 6th, 2013
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