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Copper country in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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I will never be as good at taking photos.For all of you? We can get snow that is very deep > 3 metres but only up in the Snowy Mountains. In my twenties I used to do cross-country ski-ing.
IIRC Michigan is named for Lake Michigan one of the Great Lakes, and is pretty flat. So that is a lot of snow.
Proximity to the arctic and a relatively flat path for that influence down into the US? yes?
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/17/15
It's a long way from you folks, but this mine is in the old copper mining region in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (most of the population, including Detroit is in the lower). Part of the Upper includes the smaller Keeweenaw Peninsula jutting into Lake Superior. Mountainous country; very old mountains with some of the oldest rocks in North America containing iron and copper deposits. Mostly all played out now. Last century saw Welsh, Germans, and Finns come over to mine. The Yoopers today are mostly descendants. Lake Superior is a cold one; bringing in real winters. Very beautiful country there. Other parts of the UP as well as the LP are fairly flat.
about the lost silver mine. I've hiked and looked for it a few times.
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And love the whole area. Go to Petersons Fish Market and get some fresh smoked fish!! My wife and I camp near there and always go to the old mines and pick through the waste piles for Copper. Did you see the boat made of stone and mortar?
Go to Copper Harbour too and see the view from Brockaway Mtn. and hopefully the Ice cream place in Allouez (or New Allouez can't remember which) is still open. I'd live there if I could find a job and winter wasn't 9 months long.
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Been there much. Grew up in MI.
Yes there is a great roadside sign near Calumet that shows the record depth they get. I took a picture of my wife in front of it. Way cool!
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
The old mine itself is what is stunning. Point a camera; it rewards you.
Well, I frequently point a camera and seldom get such rewards, ESPECIALLY in B&W.
Shadow and light, texture and depth take talent and you got it.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
B & W can be so involving....
I've been drawn to old school b&w lately, revisiting works from days of yore.
I'm not sure how to take it when I find that I like a lot of my older color work better in monochrome. Maybe it was the Fuji craze.
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