Leelanau Peninsula – Great Lakes, Grand Lands https://greatlakesgrandlands.com Portraits of Landscapes: The Great Lakes from Space Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:09:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/greatlakesgrandlands.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-all5lakes.icon_.512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Leelanau Peninsula – Great Lakes, Grand Lands https://greatlakesgrandlands.com 32 32 170878308 April Ice: Leelanau https://greatlakesgrandlands.com/browse/aprilice-leelanau/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:24:00 +0000 https://greatlakesgrandlands.com/?post_type=product&p=5125 FIRST IMAGE ZOOMS TO 4K SECOND IMAGE ZOOMS TO 100%

The Leelanau Peninsula, Lake Michigan

24 MP (5100x5100) from 70mm Film (1994) This photo was taken four days after the other April Ice photos, using the same camera, presumably by the same Shuttle astronaut. The northern tips of the Leelanau Peninsula and Long Lake also appear at the very bottom of the April Ice: Mackinac photo, and most of that ice is now gone.

Photographs taken by weightless astronauts are often shot at unusual angles -- which apparently bothers some people -- and I've always thought that photos like this one would work well on a stairway wall. In this photo: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; Manitou Islands; Crystal Lake; Glen Lake; Manistee River; Torch Lake; Elk Lake; Old Mission Peninsula   Categories and Tags are clickable...]]> 5125 The Traverses https://greatlakesgrandlands.com/browse/thetraverses/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:21:00 +0000 https://greatlakesgrandlands.com/?post_type=product&p=5122 FIRST IMAGE ZOOMS TO 4K SECOND IMAGE ZOOMS TO 100%

Lake Michigan's Grand and Little Traverse Bays

24 MP (5707x4486) from 70mm Film (1994)

In addition to the two Traverse bays, the traverses to Wisconsin's Door Peninsula (bottom left corner) and to Michigan's Upper Peninsula (top left) are visible in this well-framed shot.  It's October, and the autumn "color season" is clearly underway.

This photo isn't nearly as sharp as it could be.  The only image that can currently be downloaded from the NASA Gateway website is this 640x480 jpeg file. I requested and received a high-resolution scan from NASA several years ago, but even that is a medium-quality jpeg file.  (Most NASA film scans are top-quality tiff files.)  Modern AI-based software could be used to clean it up, if NASA doesn't reply to my recent request for a truly high-resolution scan.   Categories and Tags are clickable...]]> 5122 Great Lakes Place Names https://greatlakesgrandlands.com/browse/glgl-album-map/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:50:39 +0000 https://greatlakesgrandlands.com/?post_type=product&p=5246 MAP ZOOMS TO 4K

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