DSC_8102_2_2, photo by photosbyhpennington.
…is also America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The day was sunny and gorgeous and Heather got some great photos that you can view in her America’s Thanksgiving Parade 2008 set (slideshow). Check out more of her work at photos by heather pennington.
Enjoy the day – looks like another beauty!
Happy Thanksgiving my Friends…., photo by smiles7.
smiles7 says she hopes your day is beautiful and blessed.
I can’t think of much to add except for a link to the Thanksgiving slideshow from the Absolute Michigan pool and hopes that at this time next year (and all through the years) we in Michigan have lots to be thankful for!
Abandoned Mill, Ripley, Michigan 1997, photo by Bill Schwab.
A number of years ago, I built a site for an excellent local photographer, Greg Seman. I remember him praising the work of Detroit photographer Bill Schwab.
It was a pretty cool feeling when I saw some lovely black & white photos roll into the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr and realized that they were Bill’s.
This photo is part of Bill’s Michigan set (slideshow), but don’t stop there…
gull slide, photo by mfophotos
Frequent Michigan in Pictures contributor Mark O’Brien has just published A Polaroid Elegy – My Last Year With A Polaroid Camera. He writes:
This book is really about a journey into the slightly surreal world of Polaroid photography. Not everything you see looks the same after being shot with a Polaroid camera, and this book may give you a better appreciation for the wonderful invention of Edwin Land. The film used to create the photos in this book will no longer be available, hence the title.
Click through to preview and order the book. You can see many Polaroid photos Mark has taken in his Polaroids slideshow (photo set).
No Polaroids you say? Savepolaroid.com (where you can learn more about the history of Polaroid and Edwin Land’s work) notes that on February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. Apparently there is something called PolaPremium that will be revealed in a few days, so all may not be lost. Speculation is rampant.
Hang On To Your Passport | I’m Not Leaving Summer, photo by docksidepress.
If anyone else wants to hang around the terminal before the flight leaves for winter, I’ll be looking at these daisies bigger or over by this flock of herons!
Ode to Grand Rapids, photo by Billy Jack O’Toole.
So I’m going to the 1st annual Grand Rapids International Wine & Food Festival today and wondered what the venue is like. It it cheating for me to turn that into a blog post?
The DeVos Place Convention Center web site says:
The Convention Center features a 162,000 square foot, column free exhibit hall, 40,000 square foot ballroom and 26 individual meeting rooms (32,000 square feet). Twelve spacious loading docks (with a wash bay and marshalling area), allow for easy access into the exhibit hall.
In addition, DeVos Place features a 2,404 seat performing theater with two independent loading docks and one loading ramp. Home to the Grand Rapids Symphony, Grand Rapids Ballet Company, Opera Grand Rapids and Broadway Grand Rapids … part of a vibrant downtown entertainment district featuring over 50 dining establishments, nightclubs, four museums and the 12,000 seat Van Andel Arena, all within walking distance.
You can get an idea of the scale of the facility with their virtual tours and get the nuts and bolts details from Wikipedia’s DeVos Place Convention Center entry. Also check out this Devos Place slideshow and locate Devos Place on Absolute Michigan’s map.
Check out more Grand Rapids photos from Billy Jack!
Port Sanilac life preserver, photo by Deep blue ocean.
Be sure to check this baby out bigger (and this one too)!
Wikipedia says that Port Sanilac is a village in Sanilac Township of Sanilac County, pop 658:
This village was originally a lumberjack settlement on the shore of Lake Huron named “Bark Shanty Point.” In the late 1840s and 1850s, the settlement gained its first sawmill, schoolhouse, and general store. In 1854, Bark Shanty Point’s first post office opened. In 1857 the village was renamed to Port Sanilac, as it is in Sanilac Township in Sanilac County. Local legend attributes the name to a Wyandotte Indian Chief named Sanilac.
This photos is from the Port Sanilac Marina (marina web cam). More about the town at the village at Port Sanilac web site.
Madonna in Detroit, photo by irinuchka.
Irina was one of many who got to see Madonna’s show at Ford Field in Detroit on November 18, 2008. You can (and should) see this bigger in her Madonna concert slideshow.
You can get much more of Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) on Absolute Michigan and (of course) at Madonna.com.
Shades of Green, photo by James Korringa.
1. Counts days since he’s seen sun.
2. Thinks “That many already?”
3. Wonders if this will be the Longest Winter Ever.
4. Blogs something green “just in case”
James says this is from the Bond Falls area, July 2008. See it – and more great shots – bigger in his slideshow.
More from Bond Falls on Michigan in Pictures.
Piquette Plant sunset, photo by LindaB..
Yesterday on Absolute Michigan we featured an article from Michigan History Magazine titled Where the Model T began and I found this photo while looking for a picture to pair with it. I decided to find another and feature this one here!
Jerald Mitchell calls the Ford Motor Company’s Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit “a fulcrum point of human history [where] the balance of history shifted.” It was at this factory in Detroit that Henry Ford and his cohorts conceived the Model T automobile. For nine months, these men labored through fifteen-hour days, scrawled rough diagrams on the blackboards, fiddled with auto parts and patterns, argued and probably repeated the words “what if” a thousand times. When they were done, they had created the design for one of the most revolutionary automobiles ever built.
Read the rest on Absolute Michigan and learn much more about the museum that Jerald and others have created at tplex.org – the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex.
Linda writes she and her husband took a tour of the Ford Model T Piquette plant where restoration is underway. She says that the plant has special meaning for them as her husband’s great great grandfather was the winning bid for the plumbing of the building with a bid of $2,035! She also notes that these are the original windows to the plant.
You can see her other photos from the Piquette Plant, check out these Piquette photos from Miz Jelly Bean and dive into the Piquette slideshow on Flickr.
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