Chippewa River, photo by Lisa Yanick
If you click the photo above, blogger Eric Baerran of Among the Trees will take you down to the Chippewa River in Mt. Pleasant with a cool fusion of photographer Lisa Yanick’s great photos of the river with spoken words, sounds from the river and Bob Busch’s music.
Be sure to click the link for “the cleaner version” and also check out Eric’s two part feature on canoeing the river a couple years ago (part 1 and part 2).
photo by Shawn Malone, LakeSuperiorPhoto.com
About this photo, Shawn writes:
Storm was 40 knot NW gales creating 10-15 ft waves at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, MI. Water appears that color (glass green/blue) under those conditions due to gray sky, water depth among other things. It’s very brutal to stand out there and try to photograph with ice pellets hitting you in the face … water getting in your equipment from freezing spray, steadying a camera in those winds. After going to that spot many times in similar conditions, I couldn’t recreate that wave pattern if I tried 1000 times over. This is one of my most popular images, and I consider a gift from a higher power. Most recently, It was chosen for “Art on the Rocks” Fine art show poster 2006 and Lake Superior Magazine calendar 2006.
LakeSuperiorPhoto.com is absolutely packed with photos of Superior and the UP by Shawn & Brian Malone (bio page with cool magazine spread!). In addition to a lot more photos of waves and storms on Lake Superior, you can also find shots of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, events like the UP 200 Sled Dog Race, Northern Lights and an absolutely amazing number of pictures of towns, trails and all facets of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Go there, you won’t be disappointed!
On the Wing, photo by Apocaplops.
Apocaplops writes A lone Bald Eagle flies over Huron National Forest, in northern Michigan. He adds that it is better viewed large and also has two more photos of this very big bird (click below). He also (also) has, by admission, too darn many cameras.
Fishtown Christmas, photo by farlane.
I’m wishing for…
snow
blue skies
more snow
the time and wisdom to get out and play in all that snow
music
beauty
laughter
a bit more snow
and, if it’s not too terribly much trouble, peace on earth.
Hope the season, the year, your life or the fat guy in the red suit brings you what you’re wanting, needing and hoping for.
This beautiful photo reminded me of one of the first pieces I ever published on the internet, an excerpt from the 1993 book It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes by Michigan author Jerry Dennis & illustrator Glenn Wolff titled Nature Baroque: Snowflakes & Crystals.
For my money, Jerry is one of the very best writers about the beauty and mystery of the natural world (and Glenn is a standout illustrator), and this chapter tells you all kinds of stuff you probably didn’t know about snowflakes, from the process that forms them to giant snowflakes to the snowflake photography of Wilson A. Bentley, the Snowflake Man and how you can photograph snowflakes as well. FYI, Aricee (the photographer of the above shot) explains how she took this right here.
You can possibly find a copy of the book at a used book store or on Amazon.com. If you have a curious child (or curious inner child) buy this book now. If you’d like to check out more wintery items from the Northern Michigan Journal (defunct but still online), please be my guest!
The above photo of the Miners River winding along Miners Beach before flowing into Lake Superior is one of many from a fantastic new photo gallery by Lars Jensen. His galleries and reports take you on amazing hikes and this one is no exception!
View Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Fall Photo Gallery & Trip Report from randomSPACE. (there’s a bunch more galleries of outdoor beauty from Michigan and elsewhere from Lars Jensen there too!)
lake of the clouds, again, photo by Apparat-chik.
Sometimes I have to search and search and other times it’s just there. This photo is part of a set that wins “Best Title for October 2006” called If this isn’t “Deliverance,” then it must be Michigan UP. According to his bio, Mike is a brilliant yet reclusive volcanologist residing on my private game reserve on the Kamchatka Penninsula .. or something like that.
The DNR has information about hiking & camping in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park (aka the Porkies). You can find more about the area at the Porcupine Mountains Ontonagon Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. In its Porcupine Mountains entry, Wikipedia says that they were named by the native Ojibwa people, supposedly because their silhouette had the shape of a porcupine and that “the most striking geological feature of the Porcupine Mountains is the long basalt and conglomerate escarpment parallel to the Lake Superior shore and overlooking Lake of the Clouds, a continuation of the same copper-bearing bedrock found farther northeast on the Keweenaw Peninsula.”
The park was formed in 1945 to protect the last large stand of old-growth forest remaining in Michigan. The park has an excellent network of backcountry trails for hiking, backpacking and cross-country skiing, rustic trailside cabins, campgrounds, swimming and boating areas. The North Country Trail runs through the park.
You have to be happy that this photo is part of the Michigan in Pictures Michigan Fall Wallpaper series!
Wagner Falls 2, photo by gkretovic.
Wagner Falls is located south of Munising. The Michigan DNR page on Wagner Falls has directions and says that the falls are in a stand of virgin pine and hemlock. Click the pic below for Greg Kretovic’s Nature Set with more photos of Wagner Falls and other UP beauty.
Abandoned Cabin, Cross Village MI, photo by Latitude 45
Flickr (where most of the photos seen here on Michigan in Pictures reside) has recently added a nifty feature that allows you to view a map of all photos in any pool. Try the Michigan Pool and the Absolute Michigan pool for example. It also works on tags like michigan or lighthouse. Here’s where Flickr explains how geotagging works (apparently you can do it without carting around a GPS unit)
Very cool.
You can also view maps of whole sets of photos. Click the pic below to view the locations of more photos of this cabin and the rest of the photos in Martin’s “Abandoned” set.
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