Category Archives: Photography & Film

The Week for July 14-20, 2008

And so is the CSL Tadoussac by mdprovost
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." -Measure for Measure

Hundreds [...]

Photo Friday: Walloon Lake View Michigan by artbabee

Rebeka is a graduate art historian currently working with the Denver Art Museum.
Most of her photos are from Someplace Other Than Michigan but she has a great set from Charlevoix, Cross Village, and Walloon Lake, Michigan (slideshow).
Our "related posts" thing says you might also like Michigan History: Up North with the Hemingways!

S.S. Badger passing the Ludington Lighthouse

.Doug Coldwell added this video of the S.S. Badger car ferry coming home past Ludington lighthouse to our group on YouTube. Also check out his video of the Badger from up in the lighthouse, learn more about this vessel at ssbadger.com and have a look at Shaun Davis's videos from the Badger's engine room.
The Absolute [...]

The Week for July 7 - 13, 2008

the gardener by jenny murray
The Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr chronicles the storms that rolled through southern Michigan once again last week, downing trees and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes. On a less destructive note, there are plenty of photos of fireworks and parades. Click over and add your best photo from [...]

Photo Friday: Warmup by Rudy Malmquist

Rudy says he's a sarcastic joke-bomb manufacturer that happens to own a camera.
It also appears that he's a runner who sometimes finds cool things like old firetrucks and old tractors ... and a unique way of framing common scenes. Check out his Top 25 slideshow.
Happy 4th of July folks!

The Week for June 30 - July 6, 2008

A Colorful Display by SNWEB.ORG Photography
June 2008 will be remembered as one of the worst in terms of weather for many a year, so there probably won't be too many who are sad to see July roll into town!
The highlight of the week is of course the 4th of July and a great resource for [...]

Photo Friday: river days Detroit - waterfountain fun by mojo.d

Dale says that this is the water fountain outside of the Ren Cen in Detroit and that it was warm, and a wonderful day to run thru the fountain.
He's from Brisbane, Australia and this is part of his USA 2008 set.

Weird Photo: White Pine Trail Mascot

In keeping with Absolute Michigan's 'Weird Wednesday', we present 'White Pine Trail Mascot' as captured by photoshoparama. His flickr page adds:
Or is it an idol?
I don't see any sacrifices or burnt candles so I think it is more like a trail mascot.
Between southern trail head and West Michigan Whitecaps Baseball Stadium.
Want to see [...]

Photo Friday: Silver Lake Trip 13 by Anthony Bergman

Anthony lives in Shanghai, so as a consequence he doesn't have a whole lot of Michigan photos for me to point you towards other than his Michigan Trip 08 set (slideshow) and one of my favorite beach desktop backgrounds shots.
I think that's OK ... and I hope you get a chance to get out and [...]

Barack Obama & Michigan

Gore, Obama and Granholm by wizardkitten
As the editor, I try pretty hard to keep the tone on Absolute Michigan as non-partisan as possible.
When I read Obama Reaches Out to Michigan Voters in the Washington Independent, I realized that as a result, we probably side-step a lot of significant news ... and also some vital discussion [...]