Crowd at Open Space Film, Beth Price, photo by tcfilmfest.
This photo is part of the 2007 Traverse City Film Festival set (slideshow) and also in the Traverse City Film Festival group.
Beth Price is just one of a great crew of volunteer photographers who will be posting daily photos from this week’s Traverse City Film Festival. The festival takes place July 29 – August 3rd in Traverse City through the film festival web site – bringing you all the Moore, Madonna and Movies you can handle.
mmm……garden gooood, photo by 1ManWithACamera.
Larry says that he picked these yesterday and that the green beans are unreal this year.
It’s just one of many tasty photos in the Michigan Gardens group (slideshow).
Grain (1).jpg, photo by smartee_martee.
21 July 2008 … fields of grain in Solon, Michigan.
This is a part of Overnight Photo Trip July 2008 (slideshow). If it’s anything like his other sets, it’s sure to grow.
untitled, photo by Brooke Pennington.
Brooke Pennington apparently has macro lenses on loan from the Zeiss Advanced Optical Research Laboratory or something.
The only way to fully appreciate this photo is to click through to Brooke’s slideshow.
(be sure to click back to the photo of the grasshopper too!!)
Rock Harbor Lighthouse, in lifting fog – Isle Royale National Park, photo by Mark S. Carlson
Mark writes:
This was one of my favorite photographs made during my last visit to the island in spring 2006. I’ve been to the wilderness isle many times and every time is special. It’s ruggedly beautiful, inspirational and one of the most exciting places in Michigan to make photographs if you appreciate pure nature.
You can see more from the island in Mark’s Isle Royale gallery, and more of Michigan in his other galleries and in his book Michigan, Simply Beautiful. Along with fellow photographer Mark also operates Great Lakes Photo Tours, providing personalized and in-depth instruction in nature photography in some of Michigan and the region’s most beautiful locations.
The entry for Rock Harbor Lighthouse at Terry Pepper’s Seeing the Light tells the history of this remote lighthouse and includes a number of historical photos. With the boom of mining on Isle Royale and the new lock at the Soo, a light at Rock Harbor was approved by Congress (for the outrageous sum of $5000). The light was completed in 1856 and:
The station’s rubble stone tower stood 16 feet 11 inches in diameter at the foundation, with its 49 foot 11 inch high walls tapering gently to a diameter of 14 feet 1 inch below the circular gallery. A set of spiral pine stairs supported by a central pine post wound within the tower from the first floor to a trap door in the gallery floor to provide access to the lamp. The lantern itself was fabricated of cast iron, and featured a domed copper roof. Centered within the lantern, a fixed white Fourth Order Fresnel lens sat at a focal plane of 70 feet above lake level, and cast its light 15 miles across the lake The attached rubble stone dwelling, stood 29 feet square and 20 feet 9 ½ inches high at the apex of the cedar shingled roof.
Remembering the Detroit Riot of 1967 on Absolute Michigan has a lot of information and videos about what was one of the most profound events in Michigan’s history.
Below are some links to photographs I’ve found – please add more links in the comments. I’m surprised by how few there are for such a major event.
dock, photo by postpurchase.
Matt writes:
the dock, a dock, someone’s dock. not sure whose. time to get some of my backlog processed. that being said there is hardly any processing on this shot at all…
Resourceful, photo by David McGowan
David writes:
Michelle is a single mom with her daughter, Brynn. She hard-working, a resourceful builder and recycler, and unemployed in Michigan. While waiting for HR departments that are slow to respond, she spends much of her time working in her shop. Michelle builds frames, tables, signs with clever quotes, repurposes barn wood, builds frames for mirrors, refinishes end tables, cabinets, bed frames—you name it. She gives them all a “shabby chic” flavor before sending them off to consignment. At the moment this is her main source of income.
To maintain life as they know it, everything in their home has a figurative price tag on it until Michelle finds steady income. She’s reluctantly willing to part with her childhood brass bed frame, particularly sentimental since her mom passed away.
This photo is just the first of the series titled “Resourceful“, and that’s just one of the series to be found in David McGowan’s Garage Sale Culture at humanfiles.com (check out his Garage Sale Culture Part 1 slideshow!). He explains:
I have a simple but timely idea to examine Michigan’s economy through “Garage Sale Culture.” Currently there’s a boom in garage sales in Michigan, a percent of which can be attributed to people unloading goods to make ends meet. Sellers are also seeing the opportunity to move items in an economy that is reluctant to pay retail prices. There are moving sales as the result of job loss or mortgage foreclosures. Folks are selling luxury items (boats, trucks, etc.) because of soaring gas prices. These are the people I want to meet.
I’m envisioning the heart of the work to be portraiture—images that are in the moment but deliberate, that incorporate the goods being sold, or show the yard sale in progress. I’m not necessarily looking for impoverished, tug-at-your-heartstrings images, but more of common people facing unusual choices. The idea is to create a series of faces that represent the stories we hear on the local news every night, and perhaps marks the state of our State during the summer of this election year.
So click through and check these out, and do yourself a favor and bookmark humanfiles.com.
The Reo Ramblers at the 1937 sit-down strike, March 10-mid April 1937, photo courtesy Archives of Michigan
The Archives of Michigan’s July 2008 Image of the Month comes from the R.C. Leavenworth photographic collection. They write:
Lansing Auto Worker declared during the event, “Reo Strike Is Nation’s Model Demonstration.” Under the stress of wage reductions and layoffs resulting from the nation’s Depression, Reo workers shut down the factory and occupied it for a month. Workers remained peaceful, engaging in activities such as checkers, volleyball, and singing with the Reo Ramblers. The strike was successful and reenergized the local UAW chapter.
Michigan in Pictures has a post titled Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike on a Labor Day that has some great info about this landmark strike and – as is often the case – Wikipedia has a nice Flint Sit Down Strike article (with some more photos).
You can click the photo to read about a special Leavenworth exhibit at the Michigan Historical Center and also see another shot by Leavenworth of Jazz Music in Lansing in the 1920s.
Turmoil, photo by rossmat5msu.
A long exposure of the remnants of a wooden breakwall. It’s part of Matt’s Ludington set (slideshow).
Michigan in Pictures 