Exposure.Detroit January 2008 Photography Exhibit

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Packard Proving 058 B&W 4x6

Packard Proving 058 B&W 4×6, photo by Kevin Ridge Photo.

Kevin is one of a large number of very talented photographers who will be presenting work at the Exposure.Detroit January 2008 Photography Exhibit. He took this photo on one of the group’s photo safaris to the Packard Proving Grounds – check out his photos from the outing and/or everyone’s.

What: Exposure.Detroit January 2008 Photography Exhibit
When: 7pm-10pm ~ January 18th, 2008
Where: The Bean & Leaf Cafe, Royal Oak, MI
Who: 30 of Exposure.Detroit’s finest photographers

Coming to you via the coffee coated walls of the Bean & Leaf Cafe (the BLC) is the next round of talented Michigan photographers (in no particular order):Exposure.Detroit January 2008 Show

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LAWRENCEcreative
Ken Jacoby
Amy Palomar
Vanessa Miller
Ryan Southen
Mike Harabedian II
Mark F. O’Brien
One Foot Over The Moon
Detroit Derek
Stephanie Aust
C.J. Peters
Meghan East
David M. Haupt
St. Laurent Photography
Larry Carr
Scott Carey
Kyle Engelhart
James Szewczyk
Keith Burgess
Becky Layton
Ross Sandelius
Kevin Ridge
Rob Terwilliger
Patrick Simpson
David Kohrman
Paul Nichol
Paul K
John Levanen
Alexander J. Hernandez

Anatomy of a Sun Dog

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EDITOR’S NOTE: SEPTEMBER 22, 2012: Greetings from the future, people of January 2008! I think that this is the first post that I’ve ever re-done. The photos here were really cool but they were removed from Flickr. I probably would have waited for winter but as today’s post about rainbows refers here, I figured I’d do it now! Also, this post is in the new science category that I created today. If you have suggestions for other posts from Michigan in Pictures to be included, post a comment on them!

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bluffsundogcaron-vi, photo by MILapse

Sundogs, Parhelia, Mock Suns on the fantastic website Atmospheric optics says:

Sundogs, parhelia, are formed by plate crystals high in the cirrus clouds that occur world-wide. In cold climates the plates can also be in ground level as diamond dust.

The plates drift and float gently downwards with their large hexagonal faces almost horizontal. Rays that eventually contribute their glint to a sundog enter a side face and leave through another inclined 60° to the first. The two refractions deviate the ray by 22° or more depending on the ray’s initial angle of incidence when it enters the crystal. The condition where the internal ray crossing the crystal is parallel to an adjacent face gives the minimum deviation of about 22°.

Red light is refracted less strongly than blue and the inner, sunward, edges of sundogs are therefore red hued.

Rays passing through plates crystals in other ways form a variety of halos.

Head over to Atmospheric Optics for more about sundogs & other halos and definitely don’t miss their staggering sundog & moondog photo gallery. Also see sun dogs on Wikipedia.

Check this photo from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on black and see a couple more shots of the sundog in Mr Jay’s Summer Vacation 08 slideshow.

More science on Michigan in Pictures!

Michigan Snowshoe: Extreme Edition

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100_2066, photo by tomthebomb.

tomthebomb says that this is a photo of Fisher getting EXTREME.

Michigan in Pictures regular Matt Callow tipped me off to the annual Bigfoot Snowshoe Race in Traverse City. The race takes place January 26, 2008 and while it probably won’t be this extreme, it is the Midwest qualifier for the National Championship Snowshoe race and looks like a lot of fun from the photos.

The River In January

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The River In January

The River In January, photo by CaptPiper.

Julie writes Yes, this is Narnia. I found a door.

I think this is a fitting antidote to 2 days of record or near record high temps and rains.

It’s biggee-sized for your desktop wallpaper enjoyment too!

The January Thaw

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fogland

fogland, photo by Boston Wolverine.

Sam says that Sunday’s warmup caused very thick, very low, very persistent fog.

All across the state we’ve seen a remarkable warming, pretty much erasing snow in southern Michigan and severely diminishing snow cover in the northern parts. Regarding the phenomenon of the “January Thaw”, the Weather Doctor writes:

The January Thaw, which usually occurs during the third week of January across the Great Lakes/St Lawrence Valley, New England and the Maritime Provinces, holds a place in North American weather lore nearly as prominent as Autumn’s Indian Summer. And as far as I can determine, it is unique to this continent…

The January Thaw, according to the 1954 Glossary of Meteorology published by the American Meteorological Society, is:

“A period of mild weather, popularly supposed to recur each year in late January in New England and other parts of the northeastern United States….Statistical tests show a high probability that it is a real singularity.”

A singularity is a meteorological condition that tends to occur on or near a specific calendar date more frequently than chance would indicate. Read more from The Weather Doctor Almanac and also see the entry for thaw (and January thaw) from Wikipedia.

Shout out to Michigan’s snowplows and their drivers

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Snowplow

Snowplow, photo by e.rabior.

Eric took this last February and wrote Michigan, it is said, has two seasons: winter and construction barrel. This is definitely winter. (Protect your mailboxes…)

As we move from winter to January Thaw, we should probably take a moment to give thanks to the hard working men and women who keep our roads passable.

If you’d like to see how far the technology has come, drift back to this snowplow from the old days on Michigan in Pictures.

Drift

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Drift

Drift, photo by .jowo..

Part of Joel’s snow set and also in his Black & White set.

Wonderland

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New Years Day

New Years Day, photo by hampsters.

The Detroit News reported that the 16″ snowfall on January was the biggest ever for a New Year’s Day and the fourth-biggest snowfall in southern Michigan history. The biggest southern Michigan snowfall ever was 24.5 inches on April 6, 1886*. Many folks managed to avoid the downsides of power outages and poor driving conditions and got out and enjoyed the conditions.

You can view a slideshow of photos from the storm or just view the thumbnails.

* I searched and searched for the state record – if anyone knows, please post in the comments!

The Octagon House

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wash up

wash up, photo by n.elle.

Nicole writes:

a few of us from exposure detroit took a road trip up to the northern burbs and further. some poked fun that i wanted to stop at the octagon house, but i think it’s a pretty cool building.

tucked behind the octagon house were a few old barns. sitting out it front of one of them was this old claw foot tub and sink. just in case you need to wash up.

The Friends of the Loren Andrus Octagon House say that in 1828, Loren traveled with his father to find a new home in the Territory of Michigan, settling in Washington Township in Macomb County. In 1858 with the help of prominent architect and brother-in-law David Stewart and using Orson Squire Fowler’s book about the wonders of 8-sided houses, A Home For All, Andrus built the Octagon House as his entry in a home-for-show contest between several families to see who could build the most unusual house. He won.

The Octagon House is Italianate in style, surrounded on six sides by a Corinthian-columned porch. A cedar shake shingled roof, with elegant scrolled brackets, supports the octagonal cupola. The house has eight sides with eight-foot windows letting daylight fill the interior. The interior is centered around a dramatic, 55-step cantilevered spiral staircase which winds from the first floor to the third story cupola.

The Friends of the Loren Andrus Octagon House was formed to preserve this structure (which is on the National Register and you can learn a lot more about it, see a slideshow and help them to save the old barns.

Here’s an entry for The Octagon House on the Absolute Michigan map of Michigan.

The Road Ahead

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The Road Ahead

Holga: The Road Ahead, photo by Matt Callow.

In addition to being the perfect time to pull a pillow over one’s head and sleep in, the first morning of the New Year is also a great time to look forward, to hope, dream and lay plans.

I could probably write a small novel on my hopes, dreams and plans for Michigan in Pictures. I could plan in 2008 to finish the Michigan Shoreline Tour that is currently stalled at Kirk Park south of Grand Haven. I could say that I hope to do more profiles of photographers or that I’d like to hold some sort of event, but an alert reader might point out that I said that a year ago. I could even dream that somehow the feelings of love and confidence for Michigan and its people that I see expressed every day by the photos and visitors to Michigan in Pictures would replace the cloud of gloom that seems to hang over our state.

In the end, however, I think it may be enough to say that my sincerest wish is that I get to keep working with all of you because I really, really love it.

When he took this photo last March, Matt wrote that he had recently learned he would be an Artists in Residence for the Glen Arbor Art Association in summer of 2007. Here is a slideshow of Matt’s 2007 Artist in Residency in the Sleeping Bear Dunes (thumbnails).

Happy New Year everyone!