Awesome report from the Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival by our friends at Michigan By the Bottle! The Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival takes place on Saturday, June 18th from 1-10 PM at Weko Beach on Lake Michigan in Bridgman. It’s a showcase event that allows you to sample locally grown and produced varietals and [...]
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April 28, 2011 – 11:22 am
People from around the entire Great Lake Basin will be gathering for the 2011 Conference “Saving the Great Lakes Forever” which kicks off on Friday, May 6, at 6:50 p.m. at the historic State Theater in downtown Traverse City. Sequence 7408-09 by StacyN – MichiganMoments Hosted by the Flow for Water Coalition, the Great Lakes [...]
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milapse (TimelapseFromMichigan) shoots some amazing time lapse videos. As the spring rains wash winter away, I thought we’d be ready to fondly recall winter with this fantastic time lapse from Wilderness State Park on Sturgeon Bay in early 2011! Be sure to view in full screen HD and stay tuned for a feature from Wilderness [...]
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A sixty-foot, single-masted sloop dating back to the 1830′s has been discovered in deep water between Saugatuck and South Haven, Michigan. Holland-based Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates made the discovery in collaboration with nationally acclaimed author Clive Cussler and his sonar operator Ralph Wilbanks of the National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA). During an exploratory dive [...]
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jen526 ( Jenn Adams) says that she loves the outdoors, and photography is a great reason to go exploring, little kid style, in the woods or around a lake or through a meadow – the two are synergistic. She asks: Does it detract anything from this photo to know that I took this on a [...]
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March 12, 2011 – 10:21 am
Originally posted to Michigan in Pictures, but definitely too good not to share! March 11 Northern Lights over Lake Superior, photo by Shawn Malone Last week Michigan in Pictures featured an article saying that the prospects for Northern Lights viewing in Michigan were looking great for the next couple of years. Thanks to Pure Michigan’s [...]
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Jeff Gaydash writes: My love for photography began years ago back in high school when on a whim, decided to take a course in photography. I knew nothing about the process of making images and when we got our supplies list the first thing I did when I got home was open up the box [...]
Great Lakes Echo is a project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University. The site uses Creative Commons reporting to to help the news community cover the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. Absolute Michigan supports the mission of Great Lakes Echo and will feature articles they produce. While this article [...]
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Next Friday (March 11, 2011) at Brilliant Books in Suttons Bay, Loreen Niewenhuis will release her book, A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach. The book chronicles her walk around the shoreline of Lake Michigan and her observations along the way. ABSOLUTE MICHIGAN: What prompted you to do this? LOREEN NIEWENHUIS: I’ve always felt connected to [...]
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February 18, 2011 – 9:38 am
rickrjw (Rick Wolanin) added an ice boating shot from Harbor Springs to the Absolute Michigan pool today, but I liked this one from 2 years ago on Elk Lake. He’s a retired commercial photographer. Check his Collections for tons of iceboating and sailing shots. Other sets include Boyne City, Sunsets/Sunrise and Iceboating (slideshow). Speaking of [...]
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