Fly Fishing, photo by KevJams.
I think Kevin shot this near Grand Haven. He has so many eagles in the first shot of his Birds of a Feather slideshow that it looks like Alaska. I rolled back through “Eagle” on Michigan in Pictures and found this photo of eagles over the Grand River in Grand Haven, so I guess it’s a regular happening.
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Flowing Water, photo by corinne.schwarz.
Things have really heated up in Michigan this week, and as Ashley says: Peace out snowpocalypse. It’s been real..
Michigan’s own Weather Underground looks like April: 48° in Battle Creek, 49° in Grand Rapids, 38° in Marquette, 46° in Traverse City, 47° in Detroit!
Check this out bigger and in Corinne’s Lenawee County slideshow.
Marquette Lighthouse with wave, photo by johnmcgrawphotography.
No swimming today kids!
Check this and other shots out bigger in John’s slideshow and at johnmcgrawphotography.com.
Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, photo by chinkon.
I saw a photo of the Joe this morning that made me wonder about the history of the Joe Louis Arena, home of the 11 time Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings. Wikipedia’s entry on the Joe Louis Arena says that “The Joe” was:
Completed in 1979 at a cost of $57 million, Joe Louis Arena is named after boxer and former heavyweight champion Joe Louis, who grew up in Detroit. This makes it one of three remaining NHL arenas without a corporate sponsorship name (the others being Madison Square Garden in New York City and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island). It is also the fourth oldest venue in the NHL.
…The Detroit Red Wings played their first game at Joe Louis Arena on December 27, 1979. Later that first season it hosted the 32nd NHL All-Star Game on February 5, 1980, which was played before a then-NHL record crowd of 21,002.
Check this out bigger in Cinkon’s slideshow and also see the Joe Louis Arena slideshow from the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr!
Frozen Valentines Heart, photo by LadyDragonflyCC – Happy Valentines.
A few weeks ago we featured one of LadyDragonflyCC’s photos on our Make it a Michigan Valentine’s Day. Is it OK to go back for seconds, especially as Michigan’s frozen heart melts in a mid February thaw?
Give us what you’re loving this Valentine’s Day in the comments!
Check this out big as love and in her Frozen Possibilities slideshow.
van buren dunes beach- holga, photo by EllenJo.
Is it cruel or welcome to post photos like this in February? Please discuss below…
EllenJo writes that because her hands were wet it was hard to advance the film, so she ended up with some cool “happy accidents” like this. Check this out bigger in her blue slideshow and I hope your weekend is full of happy accidents!
More about Van Buren Dunes on Michigan in Pictures … more Holga too!
Air Force One leaving the U.P., photo by gkretovic.
When it comes to high speed internet, the lights are still off in one third of our households … for millions of Americans, the railway hasn’t showed up yet.”
~President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama spoke in Marquette at Northern Michigan University yesterday to tout his proposal to roll out high-speed wifi to 98% of Americans within five years. Click that link for the details and a video of his speech from Absolute Michigan.
Check out this photo of Air Force One and Obama leaving Marquette bigger in Greg’s slideshow.
Also see Kim Nixon’s photos of the motorcade as it passed through Marquette.
Manistee Bank & Trust and The Vogue Theatre, photo by Eridony.
The Ludington Daily News reports that Michigan filmmaker Michael Moore was in Manistee yesterday morning announcing that his new State Theatre Project will support a community-driven effort to restore and reopen the 72-year-old theatre located in the heart of the City of Manistee:
“The people of Manistee are about to see what a popular, thriving movie palace can do for their downtown,” said Moore. “They will return the Vogue to being the crown jewel of Manistee. We will turn on the Vogue’s marquee lights, bring in some jobs, pump money into the economy and do it with a nonprofit venture staffed mostly by volunteers. The Vogue will show first-run movies plus documentaries, foreign films, kids movies and classics — something for everyone. The Vogue will be Manistee’s new town square.”
Moore explained that the Vogue perfectly fits the profile for his State Theatre Project, a nonprofit endeavor he’s funding to help replicate throughout the State of Michigan following his success with Traverse City’s State Theatre. Moore said, “It’s a wonderful, iconic theatre in the center of a downtown and the community is behind the revitalization and prosperity of both. This will provide the spark for the continued resurgence of Manistee and will serve as a model for other small, aspiring communities throughout the nation.”
Click through to read more. There’s also an interview with Travis Alden on Interlochen Public Radio about plans for the Vogue.
Water Winter Wonderland’s page on the Vogue Theatre has some great photos and a timeline. Michpics favorite Marjorie O’Brien has a photo in her excellent Michigan Theater Project gallery and writes that the Vogue opened in 1938 and was designed by Pereira & Pereira, architects.
See this bigger and check out more views of the theatre and Manistee’s historic downtown in Brandon’s Manistee slideshow.
Yashica: Ford Lake, photo by Matt Callow.
The details: Yashica Mat 124G, expired Tmax 100.
View it bigger, see more of Matt’s shots from Ford Lake or dive into his slideshow.
Detail: Wayne County Building–Detroit MI, photo by pinehurst19475.
Yesterday was a busy day for Michigan in Pictures as a lot of folks came by to learn more about the works of art featured in the Chrysler/Eminem “Imported from Detroit” Super Bowl ad. The Joe Louis Memorial, a shiny clean Spirit of Detroit, the murals of Diego Riviera (which Slate found ironic) and the stunning Fox Theatre have all been touched on here, but there was another sculpture,
At first I thought it was a second work by Marshall Fredericks, sculptor of the Spirit of Detroit and many more iconic works scattered about Michigan. I couldn’t find it under his name, so I widened the net and found Victory, the very first photo that the informative pinehurst19475 ever uploaded to Flickr. The photo was taken in June 2000, and he or she wrote (with my links):
This sculpture is a the base of the tower of the Wayne County Building (formerly the Wayne County Courthouse}, built from 1897-1903 and restored in the late 1980s. This quadriga, entitled “Progress,” is one of two at the building (the other is “Victory”). The sculptor was John Massey Rhind. The Wayne County Building is considered a fine example of Beaux Arts Classicism. To see the quadriga (four-horse chariot) and figures of this sculpture in all their glory, go to the large size version of this photo.
Learn a whole lot about Detroit in Anthony Lockhart’s slideshow.
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