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Photo Friday: .bus north on woodward. by tEdGuY49

It's hard to know what to say about Ted. I guess I'll just say that he is one of the most brilliantly original photographers I know, tell you that you should make his Flickr photo page a regular stop and leave you with the words of Tom…
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The Huron Lightship: A Lighthouse that Floats

Lightship Huron by Darryl Wattenberg Another view of the Lightship Huron Lighthouses don't move ... unless they are lightships. Lightships were used in places where it was too difficult or expensive to build a lighthouse. A lightship…
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Michigan events, calendars and things to do

If you came to this page searching for a current Michigan event calendar, head to the Absolute Michigan home page and look for the current calendar Ferris Wheel at Night by Karen McG But is there anything to do in Michigan? If you've…
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The fire of 500 cameras

The 500th member joined our Absolute Michigan photo pool on Flickr over the weekend. To me, it's an amazing thing to know that there are five hundred people who allow us to use their photos to help tell Michigan's story. Thank you all very…
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Photo Friday: The Sun Sets by SNWEB.ORG Photography

SNWEB writes that (like many buildings in Detroit) the James Scott Mansion in Midtown faces an uncertain future. Despite the fact that he's a high school junior, he probably knows as much about Detroit's abandoned buildings and vanishing…
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Photo sharing and public history

Barbershop helper from Joey Harrison Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra has an interesting feature about how online photos sharing websites like Flickr (where most of the photos on Absolute Michigan are housed) can impact people interested…
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Happy Earth Day, Michigan

Hope you take a moment to do a little something for Michigan or the part of the earth you're in. See Michigan in Pictures for more.
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Bob Dylan to headline Interlochen summer concert series

Bob Dylan - Oslo Spektrum 2007 by Ketil Blom The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports... Bob Dylan is the headliner for the 2007 Interlochen Arts Festival summer concert series, while just about every decade of rock since he helped change…
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Photo Friday: Where Sleeping Bear Begins... by Spring Chick

Just to the north of Point Betsie, the sand rises up from Lake Michigan and the Sleeping Bear Dunes begin. Deb says: I am an outdoorsy kind of girl at heart, preferring mountains, forests and hiking trails to sun-soaked beaches, resorts…
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SE Michigan Flickr photographers featured on Michigan Radio

Flickr Royal Oak Rove by Ashley Dinges A number of photographers whose work appears on Absolute Michigan & Michigan in Pictures will be featured in a Michigan Radio item by Jen Guerra tomorrow (Friday, April 20). It will run during…
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This Month in Michigan: April 2007

Despite the fact that things are a lot more productive (not to mention happier) since I stopped chasing the news around every day, I kind of miss having a place to post interesting Michigan news stories and columns. I've also been thinking…
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Photo Friday: Halo by Ryan Southen

Ryan says that this is Detroit's skyline from underneath the "halo" of the Labor Legacy monument in Hart Plaza. Ryan loves Detroit and is a photography major at Oakland University. He also took my all time favorite baseball photo.