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Welcome to the Grand Foyer of our photo-sharing web site, the Gallery OnDaLine. Scroll down to see the many galleries available for your tour.

Pictures of the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge display at the Copper Country Mall are in the "Events" Gallery, below. Coverage of the 2008 Great Bear Chase, Junior Bear Chase, TalviTohinat ski race and the Copper Country Ski Tigers is in the "Sports" Gallery; scroll down to find it. Coverage of the Dial Help Mexican Dinner is in the "Events" Gallery.

New Galleries coming: big waves on Lake Superior, as seen on CNN; First Snow, featuring fall colors and an early October snowfall; fall colors at the Porkies and in the Keweenaw; several galleries highlighting the sights of Yellowstone and featuring the Museum of the National Park Ranger.

The various Houghton Rotary galleries, along with the 2004 -- 2007 RYLA galleries, are now found at http://www.houghtonrotary.smugmug.com.

Visiting the GalleryOnDaLine:

Use the scroll bar on the right to scroll down and tour the "galleries" available for viewing or printing. Once in a gallery, you may select pictures to view from the "thumbnail" displays. You may view pictures as "small", with the other thumbnails, as "medium" or as "large," which will fill your screen; some galleries permit "original," giving full image size to check fine detail. Original and large views in some galleries are restricted to preclude downloading of the larger image. If you order prints of that image, the full-size, original image is used for printing.

Notice that you can change the display arrangements to suit your fancy. What is especially useful is the ability to have all of the pictures in a gallery play as a slide show, using various image sizes. You may quickly scan all of the pictures in a gallery by changing the "Style" to All Thumbs, and then clicking on individual pictures to see a larger view.

All images on this site are copyright 2008 by Bill Fink Communications, LLC. Unless otherwise restricted (you'll encounter it when it applies), photos here may be downloaded for personal use and printing. In some galleries, the picture files may be downloaded for personal or commercial use for a fee. If used for non-profit publication, picture credit to Bill Fink, GalleryOnDaLine.com is required. For commercial publication, contact us for rates and details.

To support non-profit groups and organizations in our community we will photograph your event without charge and place a selection of event photos on-line here in its own gallery. Participants, friends and relatives are then able to view the gallery for free and purchase prints or downloads through the site. As an incentive to the non-profit group or organization to advertize the gallery and encourage particpants to visit and make purchases, 20% of the proceeds from the sale of prints and downloads are returned to the non-profit (after a modest amount to offset photography expenses has been recovered through sales).

Please visit the prints & gifts section. Smugmug.com has contracted with high quality, reasonably priced printing services. They offer photo quality papers with long-life inks. While many home printers accept photo-quality paper, they do not use archival quality inks -- thus your prints are likely to fade within a year or so. Fading can be minimized if the print is placed behind class and is not placed where direct sunlight hits it.

Bill Fink Communications, LLC operates Gallery OnDaLine and offers high quality digital and film photographic services. Whether you want original art representative of the Keweenaw Peninsula, wedding pictures, industrial process and construction photography, or simply pictures of your meeting or event here in the Keweenaw to share with employees and customers or family and friends, Bill Fink Communications, LLC will meet your needs.

Bill Fink Communications, LLC also offers services in management counsulting, strategic planning, organizational performance management, training, meeting facilitation, public relations, customized writing, and public speaking -- all with an emphasis on interpersonal communications.

The mission of Bill Fink Communications, LLC is to meet your interpersonal communication needs – in writing, in pictures, in person.

Contact information:

Bill Fink Communications, LLC

voice: 906-370-9597
fax: 906-482-4632

22083 Royalewood Road
Houghton, Michigan 49931

e-mail: billfink@chartermi.net
Web page: http://www.billfinkcommunications.com
The Gallery OnDaLine homepage:http://www.galleryondaline.com

Professional Affiliations:
Professional Photographers of America
Wedding and Portrait Photographers International
North American Nature Photography Association
Society of Sport and Event Photographers
American Society for Training and Development

Featured Galleries

2008 Talvi Tohinat : The 2008 Talvi Tohinat ski race was held on Saturday, January 19, at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center.  The races included a youth race, 5 and 10 km adult races, and a ski-jor with one or two dogs.  The weather was good Keweenaw -- snow and temps around zero (F)!

The race is a fundraiser for the Keweenaw Land Trust (www.keweenawlandtrust.org), an organization devoted to protecting important pieces of land for the good of the greater Keweenaw community.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of prints and downloads through this site will be donated to the KLT.

For fastest searching,if you have a high speed connection, change the "style" above right to "all thumbs."  You might also enjoy simply selecting the slide show option and watching the action unfold.

All images are copyright 2008 by Bill Fink Communications, LLC.  Permission is granted for personal, non-commercial downloading and printing of these images, and the images may be published for non-profit purposes if credited to Bill Fink, GalleryOnDaLine.com.

2008 Talvi Tohinat

The 2008 Talvi Tohinat ski race was held on Saturday, January 19, at t ...

Updated: Jan 20, 2008 5:35am PST

2008 Dial Help Mexican Dinner : The Keweenaw Co-op again sponsored the annual Mexican Dinner to benefit Dial Help, Inc.  The event took place at the Barkell Elementary School in Hancock on Saturday, February 23.  A top-notch cooking team included Ken Steiner, Anitra Bennett, Daniel Krueger, Ron Waara and Craig Dyni.

Dial Help is a non-profit organization that started life as a drug hot-line.  Its programs have expanded to such needs as drug resistance education in the schools, active discovery programs, crime victim support services, along with professional counseling.

You can view the pictures as a slide show by clicking on the button in the upper right of the screen.  

All pictures are copyright 2008, Bill Fink Communications, LLC.  As a public service to celebrate another community Mexican Dinner, original images may be downloaded free for your printing pleasure; you may also order high quality prints and photo products through this site.  Permission is granted for personal and non-profit publication, if credited to Bill Fink, GalleryOnDaLine.com.

2008 Dial Help Mexican Dinner

The Keweenaw Co-op again sponsored the annual Mexican Dinner to benefi ...

Updated: Feb 29, 2008 1:16pm PST

Ski Tigers 08 : The Copper Country Ski Tigers are a community based effort to promote cross-country ski skills for young people in our community.  From the youngest age groups to high school, the Ski Tigers program promotes increasing skiing competence and confidence, sometimes leading to participation in cross country ski racing at the college level.

The groups meet every Saturday throughout the ski season.

Viewing pictures in this gallery is for free.  You might enjoy them most by selecting the "slide show" feature in the upper right.  Downloads, high quality prints and other photo products are available for purchase through this site.  A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these items will benefit the Ski Tigers program.  Other pictures Ski Tigers in action are in additional galleries here in the Sports Gallery.

All images are copyright 2008 by Bill Fink Communications, LLC.  Permission is granted for non-profit publication if credited to Bill Fink, GalleryOnDaLine.com.

Ski Tigers 08

The Copper Country Ski Tigers are a community based effort to promote ...

Updated: Feb 29, 2008 3:54am PST

2008 Great Bear Chase : The 2008 Great Bear Chase cross country ski race was held at the Swedetown Trails near Calumet, Mich. on Sunday, March 9.  The pictures in this gallery feature the three starts, as seen from near the entrance road to the Swedetown Chalet; extensive coverage at the finish area in the historic downtown; and finally the awards at the high school.

The pictures are posted in chronological order.  If you know what time you finished, you should be able to narrow down your search.  I got most racers, but not all -- sorry if I missed you!

You may view the whole kit and kaboodle very nicely by using the slide show function, above right.  If you have a solid high speed connection, you may also call in the entire set of images using the "thumbnails" style (above right).  If you stay with the basic style, note that you can access any individual page by pausing over the page numbers until the entire range of pages comes up.

High quality prints and photo products may be ordered through this site.  Downloads may also be purchased.  Note that after some basic expenses are recovered, 20% of the proceeds from print and product sales through this site will be given to the Copper Island Cross Country Ski Club.

All images are copyright 2008, Bill Fink Communications, LLC.  Editorial and non-profit publication is authorized, if credited to Bill Fink, GalleryOnDaLine.com. Contact me for clean copies of the picture files, noting the file number.

As time permits, you might wish to explore the 2006 and 2007 Great Bear Chase photos also on line here, along with pics from the 2008 and 2007 Junior Bearchase (some really cute pictures of future Bear Chasers).  Please also explore some of the other many galleries available here.  Also, note that I will photograph the activities of any non-profit organization here in the Keweenaw, post the pictures for all to view at no charge, and after recovering some basic expenses, share 20% of the print sales with the organization.  And hey, if there's a wedding in your future, I shoot brides and grooms too!

Thanks for your support of cross country skiing here in the Keweenaw.

2008 Great Bear Chase

The 2008 Great Bear Chase cross country ski race was held at the Swede ...

Updated: Mar 11, 2008 10:47am PST

Gallery Categories

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