August 22, 2008 – 12:22 pm
Nina (nasunto) spent 4 days, 3 nights backpacking at the Grand Island National Recreation Area in the Hiawatha National Forest. It's an amazing place that offers great hiking & camping along with killer views as you can clearly see in her Grand Island National Recreation Area set (slideshow).
Other sets in her Michigan collection include Porcupine [...]
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August 18, 2008 – 10:53 am
Flint/Tri-Cities is the third of Michigan's regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away and an idea of what is going on in the region, so if [...]
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August 15, 2008 – 7:58 am
Kevin writes Mix together an incredible Lake Michigan sunset, the Diana+ medium format toy camera, expired Velvia film, and a big huge light leak, and this is what you get.
Like all of his photos, this one is available super-biggie sized. It's part of his Lake Michigan Sunsets and Diana+ (slideshow) sets. He says that he [...]
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August 12, 2008 – 6:29 am
The photos are Double rainbow over an icon by LindaB and Comerica Park by numstead, found just a few photos away from each other in the Absolute Michigan pool.
Nathan wrote My buddy Derek took me to see the Tigers play the A's on Saturday night. This double rainbow was the crowd's reward for sitting [...]
On her Sunny Days set (slideshow), Jules says that if you keep your face to the sunshine, you cannot see the shadows.
Some of her other sets include Eastern Market, In Bloom, People, Places and Things.
Hope your face gets plenty of sunshine this weekend!
You can see more of this storm in The Whistling Monkey's Ludington State Park set (slideshow). In addition to cool beach and dunes, the photos include Big Sable Point Lighthouse.
He has a ton of other sets including Tiger Stadium (documenting the fall of this Michigan icon), Best of Detroit, Manistee March 07 and Michigan.
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TCFF2008 by tcfilmfest
tcff/blog is an great blog covering the the also great Traverse City Film Festival. This film festival is committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms — the cinema. TCFF blogger John Williams informs us that:
Day one of the TCFF panels was a [...]
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In keeping with Absolute Michigan's 'Weird Wednesday', we present 'watch out for the wee ones' as captured by 1ManWithACamera.
His flickr page adds:
"on the shores of Lake Huron, in the faraway village of Caseville, some of the little people ventured out among us."
In the comments section LindaB. adds:
Reminds me of Gulliver's Travels.
"On his first [...]
thermonuclear funball by postpurchase
As July comes to a close, we'll turn ahead to the Michigan August Event Calendar to see what's cooking for this weekend and weekend. The 4th annual Traverse City Film Festival kicks off tomorrow night (Jul 29 - Aug 3) and Absolute Michigan will try and bring you up close to as [...]
Together. by Rick Spillers
Eric Hansen is the author of "Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula" and "Hiking Wisconsin". In this morning's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he has an editorial titled Headwaters are no place for toxic new mining that begins:
Take a moment to think about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and the nearby patches of Wisconsin, Lake Superior and Lake [...]
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