Business Technology and Research Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Olympus E-PL1 modified for full spectrum. Hoya R72 infrared pass filter.

The parkview campus' main entrance. Built in 2003 this is a ultra-modern state-of-the art facility. The classrooms and the labs are top-notch equipped with the latest technology has to offer.

The building’s “lighted industrial” design theme reflects its purpose as an engineering teaching facility. The labs and corridors feature exposed concrete floors and ceilings showing the true engineering and construction of the building. Building materials include brick/precast, burnished block, terrazzo, and similar long life-cycle materials.

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Park View Campus, Western Michigan University, Its here.

August 31, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

~ Abbott Lawrence Lowell

This G block in ElmWood Apartments was my port-of-entry to the Western Michigan University. The friends I made at that time remained as friends even today. Late 2003 was a great time for everybody.

August 31, 2008; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. G1 block.

August 31, 2008, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Feel of Michigan summer.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Park View Campus, Western Michigan University, view sat image.

August 31, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

~ Leslie Grimutter

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Park View Campus, Western Michigan University, view sat image.

August 31, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Explore - September 28, 2008 (#425)

~ James Dent

August 31, 2008, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. sat img.

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the heart of Western Michigan University’s 265-acre Parkview Campus is the University’s largest building. It serves as home to nine engineering departments and 3,000 students, and anchors the City of Kalamazoo’s new Business and Technology Research Park, a collaboration between the University, the City and many corporations.

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Park View Campus, Western Michigan University, Its here.

August 31, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The spire on Western Michigan University's engineering campus.

Three image infrared HDR. Canon A590 IS, Hoya R72 infrared filter, CHDK running for autobracketing and to create raw files. The DNG files were developed in Adobe Camera Raw; they were merged into an HDR using Dynamic Photo-HDR. The HDR was tonemapped in PSCS5; additional adjustment layers made it what it is.

Panorama stitched in Lightroom.

Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

This photo is completely unedited. No cropping, color adjustment, or brightness adjustment, etc. Just converted from RAW to JPEG

Stud!

East Campus Walkway, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Western Michigan University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Sony A6000 (fs) + Neewer 850nm filter.

All post-processing done in Lightroom CC.

Art Prize 2015, Grand Rapids, MI

www.artprize.org/russell-prather/2015/the-cut-worm-forgiv...

This was such fantastic installation - I really enjoyed it, it seemed the most "alive", constantly changing, depending on your point of view... and since we spent so much time exploring it, looking thru it I was able to discover yet another layer...

Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Asylum Lake, Kalamazoo, Michigan. She did her best to pose in front of the setting sun, but I couldn't get her to understand about the trees in the way.

I impulsively bought a Hasselblad and it turns out it has some issues. That's what I get for not thinking things through. heh. I'm sending it back tomorrow and hopefully finding one in working order to purchase. The film back on this one was broken and wouldn't wind the film correctly, as you can see in the overlap.

I scanned these negs on my friend's Epson 3170 and they looked perfect---so it must be my scanner, as I've always thought, that has the issue.

Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Asylum Lake, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Taken during my lunch hour, as usual.

Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

WMU's Business Technology and Research Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

DJI Mavic Pro

On the campus of Western Michigan University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

A beautiful day in Columbia, South Carolina for some D1 College Rugby. Under the shadows of Williams-Brice Stadium, Western Michigan, Clemson and South Carolina played some great rugby. Props to the Gamecocks as the A-Side defeated Clemson's A-Side Saturday.

WMU College of Engineering and Applied Science, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Lens: Vivitar Series 1 85mm f/1.8

Chief Mashipinashiwish (= Bad Bird) of the Potawatomis in 1821 (Treaty of Chicago) and in 1832 (Treaty with the Potawatomi) ceded the land to the US on which Kekalamazoo, later called Kalamazoo, of course, was to be founded. The town was incorporated in 1838 - just as the Potawatomi were beginning the forced, terrible Trail of Death from northern Indiana to the Far West, which killed so many of them; the Potawatomi of Kalamazoo followed in 1840.

The town soon became an important Michigan city. Western Michigan University was established here in 1903 by Dwight Waldo, at first as a 'normal' or Teachers College. It quickly grew into a major institution of higher learning.

Annually each May, the University for three days hosts the International Congress of Medieval Studies (since 1962) which today draws around 3000 medieval scholars from all over the world. It sells coffee mugs to convince colleagues that they've been on more than a lark; they bear the motto: "Yes! there really is a Kalamazoo".

The campus is a hospitable place with pleasant ponds (and swans), large expanses of lawn and meadow, grasslands and woods in the shade of which grow thousands of trilliums. The flowering shrubs and trees in Spring are a delight to behold - although in some years whitened by a sudden snowstorm even in early May. This year the temperatures were pleasant for lecturing, the crabapples in full blossom, and the sky as blue as can be; and in the distance the red-winged blackbird could be heard, trilling its high song.

And yes, I gave a paper, too, on travel to the Orient in the fifteenth century.

8.5 acre, 1 megawatt solar array (more than 4000 panels) at Western Michigan University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences - installed in a partnership with Consumers Energy in 2016. The array is for research and is not connected to the power grid.

This is Consumer Energy's second large installation in Michigan (the first, a 3 MW solar array, was installed at GVSU).

Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Fall color in South Western Michigan ... between Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids.

Combination of SLR shots (Sony 7R3) and drone photos (Phantom 4 Pro).

...with respects to Johnny Cash

Friday morning at work, with a tiny planet filter from Handy Photo for Android.

Since I originally posted this image back in January we were able to connect with the photographer who did this portrait for us back in 1976 while we were at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

Thanks very much, Wil. We remain very pleased we have this wonderful picture even though we both look slightly older than the two young people you photographed years ago.

(Scan of old photo print)

kalamazoo-2.tif

Asylum Lake, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

8.5 acre, 1 megawatt solar array (more than 4000 panels) at Western Michigan University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences - installed in a partnership with Consumers Energy in 2016. The array is for research and is not connected to the power grid.

This is Consumer Energy's second large installation in Michigan (the first, a 3 MW solar array, was installed at GVSU).

Asylum Lake, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In front of Waldo Library, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Wollensak Raptar 2 inch F/2.0 on Sony A7R II.

It's an invasive, so it should all be pulled out by the roots, but it's pretty enough here. Business Technology and Research Park.

Vivitar Series 1 85mm f/1.8.

Explore - October 5, 2008 (#370)

The hallowed hall of the CEAS. Its been long since I was in my department with my friends. WMU's fall semester was about to start in a couple of days. I met a few old friends who were on a similar trip.

The facility is a wireless computing environment, but also includes extensive hard wiring for high-end computing needs and interactive instruction.

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Park View Campus, Western Michigan University, Its here.

August 31, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Explore - September 27, 2008 (#436)

~ Thomas Fuller

August 31, 2008, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. sat img.

Business Technology and Research Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

"2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted"

(feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg)

[Snoop] Up out of there

[Tupac] (chuckles)

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

[Snoop] Pump that up G

[Tupac] Ahh shit, you done fucked up now --

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

You done put two of America's

most wanted in the same

motherfuckin place at the same

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

motherfuckin time, hahahahah

Y'all niggaz about to feel this

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

Break out the champagne glasses

and the motherfuckin condoms

Have one on us aight??

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

[Verse One: 2Pac, Snoop]

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture

Bomb the hoochies with precision my intention's to get richer

With the S-N double-O-P, Dogg my fuckin homey

Youse a cold ass nigga on them hogs

Sho nuff, I keep my hand on my gun, cuz they got me on the run

Now I'm back in the courtroom waitin on the outcome

Free Tupac, is all that's on a niggaz mind

But at the same time it seem they tryin to take mine

So I'ma get smart, and get defensive and shit

And put together a million march, for some gangsta shit

So now they got us laced

Two multimillionare motherfuckers catchin cases (mmm)

Bitches get ready for the throwdown, the shit's about to go down

Uhh, me and Snoop about to clown

I'm "Losin My Religion", I'm vicious on these stool pigeons

You might be deep in this game, but you got the rules missin

Niggaz be actin like they savage, they out to get the cabbage

I got, nuthin but love, for my niggaz livin lavish

I got a pit named P, she niggarino

I got a house out in the hills right next to Chino

and I, think I got a black Beamer

but my dream is to own a fly casino

like Bugsy Seagel, and do it all legal

and get scooped up, by the little homie in the Regal

Mmm, it feel good to you baby bubba

Ya see, this is for the G's and the keys motherfucker

Now follow as we riiiiide

Motherfuck the rest, two of the best from the West side

And I can make you famous

Niggaz been dyin for years, so how could they blame us

I live in fear of a felony

I never stop bailin these, motherfuckin G's

If ya got it better flaunt it, another warrant

2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

[Chorus:]

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

[Tupac] Nuthin but a gangsta party...

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

Nuthin but a gangsta party

it ain't nuthin but a

motherfuckin gangsta party

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

Nuthin but a gangsta party

it ain't nuthin but a

motherfuckin gangsta party

Ain't nuttin but a gangsta party

[Verse Two: 2Pac, Snoop]

Now give me fifty feet

Defeat is not my destiny, release me to the streets

And keep whatever's left of me

Jealousy is misery, suffering is grief

Better be prepared when you cowards fuck wit me

I bust and flea, these niggaz must be crazy what??

There ain't no mercy motherfuckers who can fade the Thugs

(hahah right) You thought it was but it wasn't, now dissapear

Bow down in the presence of a boss player

It's like cuz, blood, gangbangin

Everybody in the party doin dope slangin

You got to have papers in this world

You might get your first snatch, before your eyes swerl

Ya doing ya job, every day

And then you work so hard til ya hair turn gray

Let me tell you about life, and bout the way it is

You see we live by the gun, so we die by the gun's kids

They tell me not to roll with my glock

So now I gotta throw away

Floatin in the black Benz, tryin to do a show a day

They wonder how I live, with five shots

Niggaz is hard to kill, on my block

Schemes for currency and doe related

Affiliated with the hustlers, so we made it

No answers to questions, I'm tryin to get up on it

My nigga Dogg with me, eternally the most wanted

Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo, Michigan.