January 27, 2009 – 9:15 am
Ice Rink by Allan M
The event started in 2005 as a tuneup to Super Bowl XL and was called the Motown Winter Blast. It's now called Detroit's Winter Blast and it happens February 6-8, 2009.
In what has become typical Michigan media fashion, the Detroit News fills the glass half full, dwelling on what you won't [...]
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January 19, 2009 – 8:18 am
The 55,000th photo was added to the Absolute Michigan group on Flickr yesterday. It's titled MI snow by joojanta and is pretty darned appropriate for the snowy, snowy winter we've been having!
As always, we are amazed and gratified at the fact that so many of you share photos of such great quality and diversity with [...]
January 16, 2009 – 9:31 am
Pete Meade is from Lansing. He says this photo offers a slightly different view from last week's snow storm. You can see more of his snow shots right here and get this photo gigantilicious-size too!
His photo sets include Winter, Autumn, Mackinac Island, The Asylum and Americana (view slideshow).
Check out Pete's Flickriver too!
January 15, 2009 – 7:45 pm
2008_03_04_UofM_HistoryMuseum_Walking
by Andy Tanguay
Jack Lessenberry writes about the frustrations of journalists at the bare cupboard of swag at this year's Detroit Auto Show and the seeming idiocy of holding an event like this in sub-arctic Detroit in The fossil show in the Metro Times. He then says:
However, I actually think I might go to the auto [...]
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January 9, 2009 – 9:28 am
Tim says that he's a resident of Northern Michigan who loves the area and all it has to offer. When he's not behind the camera, he's either working, writing, out on the water, on his bike or on a trail - or just relaxing and thinking of that next image.
This photo is part of his [...]
By farlane
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January 2, 2009 – 11:45 am
Tina says she took this in the Shiawassee Wildlife Refuge (a secret path to Narnia). Have a look at the Narnia pics from the Absolute Michigan pool.
She is a Cancer Survivor, Volkswagen fanatic, Animal lover, Kayaker who suggests:
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those [...]
January 1, 2009 – 10:41 am
Follow the yellow leaf road by the pentax hammer
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We hope that you will
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December 25, 2008 – 8:48 am
Courtesy Michigan in Pictures with a big assist from Roar of the Tigers...
Holiday Train, photo by StormchaserMike Photography
The holiday season seems to too often become about things that I have no desire to celebrate - busy-ness, consumption and another excuse to fight about the fact that we are a country that is predicated on the [...]
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December 23, 2008 – 2:36 pm
Santa Claus Girls by Skywalker_ranch
Dennis has a great set of photos of Grand Rapids charity Santa Claus Girls in action (slideshow) writes that volunteers started showing up at around 5:00am to load Toys and Gifts for 13,000 children of Kent County. This is the 100th year that Santa Claus Girls have operated this massive operation [...]
December 22, 2008 – 10:03 am
When you're down this far, almost every direction is up, right?
The photo is The Detroit Lions Perfect Season by heypat and I must say that the Lions looked like they would let nothing stand in their way of 0-16 yesterday...
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