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Kite Cam at the Kite Festival

DigitalSkyPilot.Com took some great aerial photos taken with a kite-mounted camera at the Grand Haven Kite Festival. Click to see his photos from the Grand Haven Kite Festival.
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Photo Friday: Barred Owl by Through Joanne's eye

Joanne writes: It is hard to top my photo I posted yesterday, but this is what I saw on my lunch hour walk. I walked in the Grand Woods nature trails in Lansing, Michigan. I saw this owl, actually two days in a row, but was able to get a…
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Super picture of Detroit's Penobscot Building

Head over to Michigan in Pictures for a Superman/Penobscot Building mashup in which everything somehow gets tied in to Michigan. I have no idea how it happened, but it did.
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Michigan Week and 2007 Michigan Week Celebrations

Michigan State Capitol Post Card by Marxchivist Michigan Week is an annual celebration that seeks to to embrace, explore and celebrate the history, resources and opportunities that set Michigan apart as an ideal state to work, play and…
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The point is, sometimes you don't know the point

Lucas Seidenfaden recently took his camera (and Peleng 8mm fisheye) to Detroit. I thought that the results were pretty cool. It was made even cooler when I clicked to the slideshow of Lucas's Detroit photos. Hooray for Flickr's User Interface…
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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, May 14, 2007

Been a while since I got the old 5 out of the bag. Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey gets a stand-up double with this stunning satellite view of the Great Lakes, of which NASA says: At the very top of the image is a round white patch - this…
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Photo Friday: Another Blossom by Kari Melissa

  Kari Melissa is a graphic designer in the Detroit Metro area, transplanted from a farm in Pinconning, MI. The above photo is an apple blossom, and she has more photos of blossoms and a whole lot else for you to enjoy.
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Wine, food and a sense of place

Marcus Samuelsson at the Epicurean Classic by farlane Travel writer Kim Schneider has a nice article about how Michigan's wine tourism industry is developing. David Creighton of the Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council says visitors…
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The Last Days of Slumpy

Over on Michigan in Pictures today there's a pretty cool feature titled slumpy ... the William Livingstone Mansion in Detroit's Brush Park about an Albert Kahn designed home that has fallen on hard times. ...and so you don't get too depressed,…
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Movement 07: 2007 Detroit Electronic Music Festival

Richie Hawtin DEMF 2006 by Amanda Stroyer Detroit Michigan is the birthplace of techno and every Memorial Day weekend the city cuts loose with the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, a multi-day celebration of techno. DEMF.com says: Detroit's…
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Promoting film in (West) Michigan

H H H N S (Hand Held Holga Night Shot) by G0da Grand Rapids - Rapid Growth says that the recent Motion Picture Tax Incentives Package has begun the effort to attract more filmmakers to Michigan with a $7 million incentive fund offering…
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Great Lakes Kite Festival in Grand Haven

KITES! by yerffej9 (updated April 9, 2008!) The annual Great Lakes Kite Festival will be held May 16-18, 2008 at Grand Haven State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan. The event benefits the Children's Leukemia Foundation and features: Giant…