two lights, photo by The Real Ferg.
Ferg writes the moon and a flashlight, having some fun with lightpainting. no editing at all. This photo is part of a cool set of night shots (slideshow).
Wikipedia has something to say about light painting. Flickr’s lightpainting tag has some cool examples as well.
The Bridge Again, photo by mi_kirk.
Kirk says that the trees have grown some since the first time he shot this. You can check out other photos from the Exposure .Detroit Safari to Cranbrook on 08/26/07 (slideshow).
Kirk is one of 5 photographers (tEdGuY49, mi_kirk, radiospike, paulhitz & Bobby Alcott) who will be displaying their work at The Bean & Leaf Cafe in Royal Oak next Friday (Sept 21) from 7-10 PM. Theatre of the Absurd and Liz Larin will provide musical entertainment.
If you’re a person in the metro area who enjoys photography, definitely check out Exposure.Detroit.
Fishermans Island SP Michigan, photo by F3_power_user.
The DNR page on Fisherman’s Island State Park (view a Wikimap) explains that…
Fisherman’s Island State Park is not actually an island, but a 2,678-acre park with five miles of unspoiled Lake Michigan shoreline. The park encompasses a tiny island, Fisherman’s Island, located a short distance offshore from the picnic area. Located just south of Charlevoix, it features a rustic campground with some of the sites nestled in the dunes along the lakeshore. The park road travels through the campground to the picnic area with access to the beach and miles of hiking trails. The interior terrain consists of rolling dunes covered with maple, birch and aspen broken up by bogs of cedar and black spruce.
Keith House says that this was scanned from an older 35mm chrome.
warren polka boosters, photo by monitorpop.
If this isn’t Michigan, then I don’t know what is.
(from the Frankenmuth Summer Music Festival, held mid-August every year and featuring that heavy Barvarian sound)
Mike has a site for his photography/new media work called monitor pop! that I think you might enjoy.
Ludington, MI from the Bow of SS Badger, photo by Wigwam Jones.
Yesterday on Absolute Michigan we took a look at the S.S. City of Milwaukee, a permanently moored rail car ferry museum (website).
It seems only fitting that we give a nod to the S.S. Badger with a cool set of SS Badger photos from Wigwam Jones (slideshow).
The S.S. Badger web site gives the history of the ship which begins:
She is the largest car ferry ever to sail Lake Michigan, and has provided a safe, fun, and reliable shortcut across the huge inland sea for more than fifty years. The S.S. Badger is a national treasure, offering a cruise experience that links us to an earlier time when a sea voyage was the ultimate travel and vacation adventure.
The 410′ S.S. Badger entered service in 1953, designed specifically to handle the rough conditions that it would likely encounter during year ’round sailing on Lake Michigan. Built primarily to transport railroad freight cars, but with superior passenger accommodations, the Badger reigned as Queen of the Lakes during the car ferries’ Golden Era in the late Fifties, with Manitowoc, Milwaukee, and Kewaunee as her Wisconsin ports of call.
Unlike most of her fellow ferries, the Badger escaped the scrapyard and makes the daily journey from Ludington to Manitowoc, WI May – October. Be sure to take the tour of the Badger!
StormFront, photo by Detroit Bike Blog
A couple weeks ago, Mac at Detroit Bike Blog caught some photos of a powerful storm that tore through Detroit.
If you click through to the blog, you’ll see more including some photos from the Detroit Grand Prix, a couple tasty muscle car shots from the Dream Cruise and some photos from an early morning jaunt around the city (maybe the August 2007 archive is the best link for those).
He’d also like to call attention to the 2007 Tour de Troit on September 15, 2007 (and held every year!).
Reflection, photo by rckrawczykjr.
It’s the day after Labor Day and most school districts in Michigan are (quite sensibly) holding their first day of classes today thanks to a mighty fine bit of legislating that has Connecticut lamenting that there’s “something unnatural about sending children to school in August” and Ohio looking to follow suit.
The The Michigan Hotel, Motel & Resort Association found that hotel occupancy for the last two weeks of August was way up as well – kudos to our much-battered elected officials.
Women Workers in the 1942 Detroit Labor Day Parade by Arthur S. Siegel.
Wikipedia says that Labor Day:
The entry goes on to say how that has mellowed to more of a day of family rest and recreation (and for political appearances of course). The Detroit News Rearview Mirror series How Labor won its day by Patricia K. Zacharias does an excellent job of weaving Michigan’s role in the holiday into the broader historical picture and has some great old pictures (be sure to click the button at the top left!). These pictures were taken at the 1942 Labor Day Parade in Detroit by Arthur S. Siegel. You can click the photos at the right for a larger view too! |
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Sometimes I make a note to post about something at a later date, lose the note and then when the later date rolls around, realize that I’ve become a party to one of my pet peeves: telling folks about something when it’s too late to make any plans for it. That’s what happened with my plan to post something about the 2007 Detroit Grand Prix. Ah well, such is life…
The Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix official site says that the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix returns after a 6 year absence and features the cars of the American Le Mans Series (Detroit Sports Car Challenge on Saturday at 3:15) and the IndyCar Series (Detroit Indy Grand Prix on Sunday at 3:30 on ABC). Net proceeds raised by the Grand Prix will fund measures to preserve and improve Belle Isle, and the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix has earmarked $100,000 in cash for the improvement and preservation of Belle Isle (Belle Isle park page).
Here’s a map of the course, which is also available in the Detroit News interactive tour of the course. Over at Jalopnik they’ll be covering the race all weekend (check the Detroit Grand Prix tag) and they have a video of the pace car navigating the course (there’s also some historical footage from past Detroit Grand Prix in the menu at the end of the video).
Wikipedia’s Detroit Indy Grand Prix entry has a bit about the history of the race and there’s some more in the US Grand Prix history pages.
The photo above is part of Kate’s Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix 2007 set (slideshow). She has a photo from the qualifying of pole-sitter Ryan Briscoe of hometown Penske Motorsports.
There’s some more pics available from yesterday including this massive set of
Detroit Grand Prix 2007 photos and I’m guessing that the detroitgrandprix tag might be the best place to find pics as the event unfolds.
There’s also this cool set of Formula One pics that includes a lot from the old Detroit Grand Prix.
Skimboard Boogie, photo by eaanderson.
Hope everyone enjoys that last weekend of the summer … and that summery weather continues for a few more weeks!
This photo is part of a nice set of photos from late summer on the Muskegon shore.
Michigan in Pictures 