Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 9hNorth Church Street Downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #downtown #kalamazoo #michigan 080
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 9hStanding on the sidewalk on Douglas Avenue, looking between the houses. A bit of Stuart Manor is seen on the right side of the background. Stuart Area Historic District #Kalamazoo, #Michigan #photography #newtopographics 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Golden hour is coming earlier and earlier. Schrier Park, Portage, Michigan #photography #fall #autumn #portage #michigan #schrierpark 0111
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Park Trades Center #Kalamazoo, #Michigan Built for the Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Ledger Company in 1906, then occupied by the Saniwax factory, where they made wax paper for storing food. Now a collection of individual studios and workshops. www.kpl.gov/.../kalam...... #photography #architecture 0171
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Probably not the stairway to heaven. Parchment, Michigan #parchment #michigan #photography #newtopographics 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Dumpster diving at the Dollar Tree Parchment, Michigan #photography #newtopographics #parchment #michigan 020
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Drone me to the moon #photography #droneography #blueskymonday 160
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026An arrival announcement made with golden maple leaves. #photography #fall #autumn #michigan 0130
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The beginning of another picture-perfect fall day in #Parchment, #Michigan. (It's an old paper plant (1909-2000). The ruins are so toxic that urbex'ers have labeled one part of it "the pit of death" - based on how it smells.) #newtopographics #abandonement #photography 050
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026La ventana amarilla Los Potros Mexican Restaurant (bathroom) (used to be Nina's Taqueria) Augusta, Michigan #photography #window #yellow 040
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This was the third place we've seen purple mushrooms in Kalamazoo County! ;-) North Country National Scenic Trail near Augusta, Michigan (spotted cort or viscid violet cort) #BlueSkyArtShow #3rdPlace #photography #mushroom #michigan #purple 0220
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Buy me! At the September 2026 Allegan Antique Fair (in #Allegan, #Michigan). This wasn't so much about the crane as it was about the way the sun reached through the leaves to light this up. But I left it for someone who might enjoy it more. Construction toys aren't my thing. #photography #antique 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Parchment, Michigan The paper industry used Parchment and left it a toxic wasteland for thanks. #photography #newtopographics 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A flock of duck trucks, with one arriving in #3rdPlace Parchment, #Michigan #photography #usps #BlueSkyArtShow 060
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ice cream candy subs Cooper Market Cooper Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan The house that is the corner of the store dates to the mid-19th century, based on the Greek Revival roof. #photography #newtopographics #michigan 040
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Parchment Manor Parchment, Michigan (okay, it's only an apartment building - built in 1914) #photography #gate #entrance #door 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mountain Home Cemetery Kalamazoo, Michigan The view from the drive through the dark shadows of the trees to the markers beyond always challenges me to use the elements to compose a new image - no matter how many times I walk past. #cemetery #photography #kalamazoo #michigan 170
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Lyda Gardner Page; taken on one of my Find-a-Grave expeditions. Once in a while I use strobes to illuminate the markers and balance the light with the background and to emphasize the inscriptions when the sun isn't cooperating. Virgo #Cemetery, Texas Township, #Kalamazoo, #Michigan #photography 030
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The McElroy family plot marker; taken on one of my Find-a-Grave expeditions. Hope Cemetery, Texas Township, Kalamazoo, Michigan #cemetery #winter #michigan #photography 0102
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pick up or delivery? Kalamazoo Mall, Kalamazoo, Michigan #kalamazoo #michigan #photography #downtown 190
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026James Clapham House The house is octagonal with rectangles pasted to the opposite side - one being original. South Rose Street in the Vine Neighborhood #Kalamazoo, #Michigan Built ca 1861; divided into apartments. #photography #architecture www.kpl.gov/.../rose-s-6... 080
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I do not know the story of this house. I was told today that someone died here (in this century). It is on the edge of a neighborhood designated as historic and protected. Most of the houses in this area have had much better luck with their caretakers. And most are the same age and older. 000
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fading Pink Rose Street Vine Neighborhood (but not Vine Historic) Kalamazoo, Michigan Built in 1911 #photography #pink #house #architecture #kalamazoo #michigan 2403
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The green-painted, rusting steel-clad roof of the receiving vault in Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Michigan. #rust #cemetery #photography #kalamazoo #michigan 090
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Various shades of grey South Westnedge Avenue Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #newtopographics #kalamazoo #michigan 090
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They took another length of sidewalk away from me. It's almost like they're trying to hide this, the largest thing in all of #Kalamazoo, from me 😆 Looking east down W Water Street from N Westnedge Avenue. There is no more pedestrian access here. But Bill will find a way. #photography #construction 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026From here you can see downtown. #Kalamazoo, #Michigan #newtopographics #photography 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#blueskymonday #surveillance #photography #kalamazoo #michigan 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Jickling Sisters Tolhurst, Sarah, 1888, aged 30 Jickling, Emma, 1889, aged 21 Humphreys, Clara, 1894, aged 24 Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Michigan (there were nine children in the family; the other six lived to be old) #cemetery #photography #kalamazoo #michigan 0261
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Schrier Park, Portage, Michigan #photography #blueskyartshow #lights #forest #woods #sun #michigan 0272
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026lolwut? The sidewalk ending here is more of a local government thing than a philosophical one. But you do you. Also, I'd like some of what you're smokin' ;-) 000
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026TEST DRIVE Kalamazoo River Valley Trail (KRVT) Northside, Kalamazoo, Michigan The rear plate just reads, "TEST DRIVE" #photography #newtopographics #northside #kalamazoo #krvt #michigan 040
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Where the sidewalk ends #photography #kalamazoo #sidewalk #liminal 1120
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Overpass on US-131 over KL Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #newtopographics #kalamazoo #michigan 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The sunflowers wilting in our bathroom tell us that fall's arrival cannot be stopped. #photography #summer #wilting #sunflower #michigan 070
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Okay, so it's not *that* H. G. Wells. That other H. G. probably never even heard of Kalamazoo. Mountain Home Cemetery Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #cemetery #kalamazoo #michigan 040
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026West Dutton Street (Vine Neighborhood) Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #newtopographics #kalamazoo #michigan 090
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Woodward School Stuart Area Historic District Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #architecture #kalamazoo #michigan #blueskymonday 0130
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Miller Canfield Building Downtown, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Completed in 2008 #photography #kalamazoo #michigan #architecture #doors 050
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ora J. Stuck was 8 years, 8 months, and 3 days old when he died of bronchial pneumonia on January 3rd, 1895. Ora was the second son of a prominent local physician. His parents reportedly hired an Italian company to carve this likeness. Hillside #Cemetery #Plainwell, #Michigan #photography 060
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ora J. Stuck was 8 years, 8 months, and 3 days old when he died of bronchial pneumonia on January 3rd, 1895. Ora was the second son of a prominent local physician. His parents reportedly hired an Italian company to carve this likeness. Hillside #Cemetery #Plainwell, #Michigan #photography 060
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The antique stores are putting out their Halloween wares, but who needs those when you could buy these? Burgess Antique Center, Galesburg, Michigan #photography #antiquestore #dollhead 051
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Pssbly-increase the contrast between the confetti and the background. Use a color mask to select the yellow and increase its luminosity and white level and sharpen it. Decrease the luminosity of the shadows in the background starting with an inversion of the yellow mask. Brighten the person's shirt. 010
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It looks crazy now, but someday we'll be nostalgic about the good old days when you could get a bottle of air for only $10. #photography #antiquestore #bottles 1100
Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Kalamazoo was "The Big City" during my childhood. So I guess I'm living the dream. 110
