2399 Terrace Walk
by Kris Rasmusson
Title
2399 Terrace Walk
Artist
Kris Rasmusson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Holland State Park is actually two distinct parks. There’s a west side park that borders Lake Michigan and an east side park that is inland about a third of a mile. The two parks are separated by a big sand dune. Since the wind comes inland off the lake from the west, the west side of the dune is the windward side, and like most windward sides has a slope that is much more gradual than the leeward side. Back around 1900, unlike today, it was legal to build a cottage on a sand dune. People chose the gradual slope of the windward side which also gave them a great view of Lake Michigan. To do so meant that the foundation had to go deep and that the foliage surrounding the cottage had to remain healthy to keep the sandy soil structurally firm. So 100 years ago cottages were built on the sand dune that partitions the two halves of today's Holland State Park and the ‘street’ was named Terrace Walk. Of the cottages, ‘2399 Terrace’ is my favorite and is very photogenic, especially in the summertime. I photographed the blue beauty with my Linhof 4 X 5 camera and positioned my Gitzo tripod on the boardwalk that serves as the ‘street’. I optimized the image using selective colorization in Photoshop.
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February 29th, 2012
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