Across the Tracks, photo by anikarenina.
The Krappy Kamera Club has the goal of bringing together people with the love of Krappy Kameras in the greater Ann Arbor, Michigan area. Holga, Diana, Brownie – these are a few of their favorite things.
On a related note, KKC member and newspaper photographer Bill Bresler will present Plastic Fantastic: Toy Camera Photography in the Digital Age on Sunday October 22, 2006 at 2 PM at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing.
photo by tEdGuY49.
The annual Michigan State Fair continues through September 4. The state fairgrounds are located in southeast Michigan at the corner of Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue in Detroit – two miles from I-75, three miles from I-696, and eight miles from I-94.
The motion and color in the photo above is incredible but this one really captures the overall vibe of the Fair.
The Michigan Renaissance Festival is an annual affair held on weekends in Holly (between Detroit & Flint). It features full contact armored jousting, almost 200 artisans and tons of costumed entertainers of all kinds.
You can visit the Michigan Renaissance Festival web site for more information (click the photo above to jump straight to their photo gallery), click for a ton of photos from Flickr and check out Michigan Renaissance Faires and Festivals on Absolute Michigan.
Fishing at Sunrise, photo by DetroitBikeBlog
Mac took this photo of a fisherman on the Detroit River. He maintains the very cool Detroit BikeBlog where more photos of the D can be found.
T-Birds, photo by Spencer Olinek.
Spencer Olinek took this and a bunch more photos of last weekend’s 2006 Woodward Dream Cruise (held every year on the 3rd Saturday of August). You can click above to see Spencer’s pics, check out videos, links & information about the annual Cruise from Absolute Michigan and click Dave Hogg’s photo of the General Lee below to view more photos in the Woodward Dream Cruise Pool on Flickr!
The Check-In, photo by UrbanTiki.
This photo of the Hotel Eddystone serves as the poster for Bobby Alcott’s show tomorrow night (Friday, Aug 18) at Karras Bros. Tavern in Detroit. The show is presented by Exposure.Detroit, a Motor City based photographer’s group that is part of the larger Exposure.Network.
You can get all the show details by clicking the poster below and I also encourage you to check out this interview with Bobby and this set of photos of the Hotel Eddystone. As a note to people who are sad that such a glorious building has fallen into such a state, the hotel is currently being renovated.
View-Master Shiping 2006/06/28, photo by “CAVE CANEM”.
CAVE CANEM writes As a child, I was a big fan of those poorly lit, out of focus images in my Viewmaster toy. I used to just love my Boblo Island and 3d Casper Discs, I could stare at them for hours.
This is part of a great set of photos of people at Riverworks in Detroit and he notes that the photo is best viewed from childhood.
Ryan says that this is a shot of Comerica Park from the top of the abandoned David Whitney Building in downtown Detroit. He desaturated the areas around the stadium to give the structure some pop.
You can also view the original and view this photo large and on black
.steel worker., photo by tEdGuY49.
Hope you all get some time away from work and internets this weekend!
The Double Horizon, photo by The ClayTaurus.
Of the above photo, Chris Clayson writes We’ll take ripples over mirrors any day. If you view it big you will see that the 2nd boat is well on its way to being becalmed.
This photo is part of a set that seeks to provide on boat’s perspective (Unplugged of Port Sanilac) of racing in the Port Huron to Mackinac, one of Michigan’s two annual long distance sailing races (the other being the Chicago to Mackinac Race).
View the 2006 Port Huron to Mac Race set.
Michigan in Pictures 