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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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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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Time for the Great Lakes State to stand tall

I looked around and around for something to post today. Everywhere I looked things were on vacation, offline or crashing my browser. The news has become something that - for the most part - I can't bear to spend time with. There are only…