Frost Ferns 6349, photo by SNiedzwiecki.
Stacy writes that this (and a few more) are photos of frost on her front storm door on a subzero afternoon.
Catch of the Day: Archives of Michigan at Flickr
Fly fisherman with Brown Trout, photo by Photos from the Archives of Michigan.
The photo is captioned Unidentified man holding a brown trout caught on a fly. Location is somewhere in northern Michigan, c. 1930. They have several more Michigan fishing photos including one of Gov. George Romney releasing the first Atlantic Salmon into the Great Lakes in the early 1960s.
View more images from the Archives of Michigan on their Flickr page and also at seekingmichigan.org. Learn more about the Archives at archivesofmichigan.org.
Exposure.Detroit – March Show
Dave is one of the 5 photographers in the next Exposure.Detroit exhibition and this photo is one of a number in his Michigan set of photos (slideshow)
Exposure.Detroit March 2008 Photography Exhibit
When: March 7th ~ 7pm-10pm
Where: The Bean & Leaf Cafe, Royal Oak, MI
Who: Ryan Southen, Ledio V, Keith Burgess, Vanessa Miller and Dave Haupt
The poster was designed by LAWRENCEcreative.
Unfroze
Untitled, photo by Brooke Pennington.
The other night I saw the afterglow of the sunset at 7:30. Reminded me that the world keeps tilting and turning along.
Is this a Paddle, Raft, Plump, Team, Brace or Dopping of Ducks?
OtisDude writes:
I was shooting some duck pictures today when all the sudden something startled all the ducks. Calm to chaos in less than a second. I managed to snap off 4-5 pics before I got a little panicked and got out of the way.
We’ve all heard of the many Inuit names for snow. In case anyone was wondering, ducks are pretty much the same. There’s quite a collection of names for a group of ducks including a paddling of ducks or a raft of ducks (when floating along), a plump or team of ducks (in flight overhead), a brace of ducks (post hunting I believe) or a dopping of ducks (when diving). More ducks on Michigan in Pictures.
None of these seemed quite right but fortunately there’s also a flush of ducks, which I’m going to assume covers exactly this scenario.
Total Lunar Eclipse of February 20, 2008
Full Lunar Eclipse, photo by gregory lee.
Gregory writes:
Taken 19 minutes before the full eclipse in North America (Ann Arbor, Michigan). This image is exposed for the area in the Earth’s shadow. The red color is the actual color of the shadow.
Check it out larger and also see more detail in this black & white shot.
You can see many more photos from around Michigan at this Flickr search for “Michigan eclipse” for February 20th (slideshow). Some cool ones so far include the celestial triangle formed by the eclipsed Moon, Saturn and the star Regulus, a montage of the progress and Sparty and the Moon. I’d keep an eye on the show, becuase I bet there’s more great ones to come and feel free to link to others below!
(I’ll look the other way when I post this link to the Lunar eclipse february 20 2008 group.)
eclipsed
Well, this was SUPPOSED to be a photo of the moon in honor of tonight’s total eclipse of the moon.
What can I say? I’m easily distracted.
Mark took this photo in Saline with a Diana camera and it’s just one of many in his outstanding alternative cameras set (slideshow) featuring images from Polaroids, 110 cameras, toy cameras, and Holgas.
Here are some ACTUAL Michigan photos from the lunar eclipse of February 20, 2008!
Pickerel Spears, Ice Shanties and the Fishing History of Saginaw Bay
Saginaw Bay Ice Shanty c.1925, photo by oldog_oltrix.
Larry writes that this photo was taken by his grandfather at his ice shanty on Saginaw Bay (probably near Bay Park) in the mid-1920s. The 6′ bar between the shovel and the axe is a “spud” used with the axe to make the hole in the hole in ice and the pole coming from the top of the shanty is likely a “pickerel spear”. The This is one of the photos in his Oldog’s OLD PHOTOS set, and it also appears in the Michigan Thumb Memories group.
Over on Michigan Sportsman, Capt. Dan Manyen has written a nice little article titled The Fishing History of the Saginaw Bay. In it, he shares a number of old photos and provides a nice overview of the last few centuries of fishing on what I’m going to guess is Michigan’s largest bay. Capt. Manyen writes that walleye was mis-identified by many back then as pickerel and sold in great numbers to both local fish market outlets and buyers from the eastern states. He says that for many in the area, the burgeoning auto industry…
…did not stop or ease the pain of the Great Depression during this time. What did for many though, including my own Grandfather, was the plentiful fishing and hunting resources the Bay area offered. When Grandpa couldn’t get a job unloading the (Bean Boat) as he called it for .50 cents a day, he’d be out hunting or fishing for a meal for his family. Grandpa talked often about spending all winter out on the ice on Saginaw Bay in a (Pickerel Shanty) spearing pickerel.
I’m not sure where you might want to take this, so here’s the Wikipedia entries for Pickerel, Walleye and Saginaw Bay. You might also be interested in the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network, the Saginaw Bay Fishing Report and a more recent photo of ice fishing on Saginaw Bay.
Also see Saginaw Bay on Absolute Michigan’s Map of Michigan.
Oh, There Were Once Great Ships On Our Mighty River!
Oh, There Were Once Great Ships On Our Mighty River!, photo by “CAVE CANEM”.
CAVE CANEM writes…
So there I was… (On Black)
rutting through some boxes for some tax documents and BAM, look what I found!
If grew you up in Detroit between 1910 and the early eighties this should make you smile. This is an Detroit icon for all us kids that had to run the concrete jungle during the dog days summer. As I remember there were few things better than to take that first step onto the boat full of excitement waiting for those big steam monsters to start up, or catching that breeze in the face, any hot August morning while traveling the island. To be honest I can still feel that gentle wind as I ran what seemed like endless decks, it’s wonderful. Cruising to and from Bob-lo was the perfect way to cap off the season before the return of school and gray skys.
This is the S.S Columbia one of “twin steam boats” made for the Detroit, Windsor, and Belle Isle Ferry Company to cruise the Detroit River in-between the ice flows. I remember it was just cool to sit and watch them lazily make their way up and down the any day you were downtown, or to hear the voices bouncing off the wateras a ship full of revelers lost themselves on hot night while I caught a breeze with pops. If I miss anything it’s the late afternoon picnics with my family we had on that amusement island (Mangos! who knew?). This was one the best things about being in the city as a kid it saddens to think me my friends will never treat their children to such a day.
Oh well all good things come to an end….
The question is when will the bad things?
Probably the only link you really need is Bob-Lo Boats: a Tribute to the Bob-Lo Steamers, but lest I look too lazy, here’s the S.S. Columbia in Wikipedia which includes a 1905 photo of the Steamer Columbia on the Detroit River. I also found a 1959 video from the deck of either the Columbia or the Ste. Clair on YouTube.
The Columbia is now on the Hudson river and the S.S. Columbia Project is seeking to restore the vessel. Be sure to have a look at their gallery of historic photos. There’s a group of folks working to restore the S.S. Ste. Clair which is docked most of the year at Tricentennial Park in Detroit – get all the details and more about the boat at bobloboat.com!
All Star Weekend with Chauncey, Sheed & Rip
Chauncey steps up to the line, temper temper and he shoots, all photos by radiospike photography
Congratulations to Chauncey Billups, Rasheed Wallace and Richard Hamilton for selected for the 2008 NBA All Star Game. As an added bonus for Piston fans, Rip is in the 3 Point Challenge … he’s been practicing.
Radiospike has more Piston photos in his great Pistons 11-23-07 and Detroit Pistons sets. The shot of Rip is part of his pretty cool 2007 the year in pictures and he currently has a photography exhibition titled Detroit: The Way Things Are in Ferndale (through Feb 28).
Michigan in Pictures 
