Category Archives: Photography & Film

October 24th Northern Lights over Michigan

northern lights, clare county MI by ats8110 Last night our Michigan Northern Lights Log got over 2 dozen reports from the region of sightings – follow the link to subscribe via RSS. Here’s the skinny on last night’s Auroral Amazement via Michigan in Pictures… Michigan was treated to an amazing show of Northern Lights as [...]

Made-In-Michigan Film Festival – October 21st & 22nd

On October 21 & 22, 2011 film industry professionals and festival-goers from across the state will converge on Downtown Lapeer at the historic, recently renovated PIX Theater for the 4th Annual Made-In-Michigan Film Festival (MiMFF). Presented by the Made-In-Michigan Film Society and The Lapeer County Film Office, this year’s event promises to be the biggest [...]

Happy Birthday, Sault Ste. Marie Michigan

Pasty.com’s Day in History for October 4th says that Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan was founded on this day in 1641. Michigan History Magazine expands on this, relating that French Jesuits Isaac Jogues and Charles Raymbault held the first Christian services in Michigan at Sault Ste. Marie on that date. As you’ll see in a moment, [...]

Seeking Michigan: The Father of Animation

By Kevin Collier, courtesy Seeking Michigan and the Archives of Michigan. The goal of Seeking Michigan is simple: to connect you to the stories of this great state. Visit them regularly for a dynamic & evolving look at Michigan’s cultural heritage and read more from Seeking Michigan on Absolute Michigan! Winsor McCay, pioneering animator and [...]

There’s no better place for Michigan for the Colors of Fall

Via Michigan in Pictures… We’ll lead it off with a polished video from Pure Michigan. You can also do some virtual color touring with this Motorcycle ride through the “tunnel of trees” north of Harbor Springs.. Untitled by DavidGuthrie As I took a little drive yesterday in Leelanau & Benzie counties in Northern Michigan I [...]

Detroit Design Festival ~ September 21-28, 2011

The inaugural Detroit Design Festival (DDF) starts tomorrow (Wednesday, Sep 21) with a kickoff party from 6-9 PM at New Center Park. DDF is a “crowd-sourced design festival” developed to showcase the talents and abilities Detroit’s creative community. Over the eight days and nights of DDF—September 21 through September 28—a variety of Design Happenings will take [...]

ArtPrize 2011 in Grand Rapids

The Eyes Have It by pairadocs Our favorite Michigan art event, ArtPrize, kicks off its third year in Grand Rapids this Wednesday. ArtPrize runs September 21 – October 9, 2011. It’s billed as a radically open art competition that is open to any artist in the world who can find space and it is one [...]

Weird Wednesday: Michigan Sea Monsters

The last Wednesday of every month is a ”Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan. Usually we get a feature from Linda S. Godfrey, the author that fascinating tome of Michigan mysteries: Weird Michigan. Linda is hard at work on her latest book so we’ve gone down to the vault and pulled out some watery weirdness! Stay up-to-date with [...]

Michigan waterfalls on Michigan in Pictures

Tannery Falls by trumansnare One of the regular guests on the Michigan in Pictures photo blog are waterfalls. Go Waterfalling is the go-to site for Michigan waterfall information, and they say that Michigan has over 200 named waterfalls. The Michigan waterfalls category on Michigan in Pictures has over 60 posts from the big ones like Spray Falls, [...]

Northern Lights likely over the next few days!

Here’s a very popular post from yesterday’s Michigan in Pictures! The photo was taken by Shawn Malone of Lake Superior Photo at Little Presque Isle. While this is a little technical, it basically says “We might well see some northern lights in the next few days!” Be sure to follow Lake Superior Photo on Facebook [...]