Posted on 10/25/2014 12:38:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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Seeking Michigan is an ongoing personal project that I started work on in February 2013. Over the past year, I have been making trips around Michigan and up to the Upper Peninsula on a frequent basis to discover and explore the beauty of this state. Sleeping in the back of my car, walking through forests at night, getting lost on dirt roads, and driving for hours on end around this gorgeous place has been an incredible inspiration to me. So much so that I decided one piece just simply wouldn't do it for me. The goal for me in this project is to continue to see new, special things about Michigan, and share my experiences with the viewer.
Dedicated to my grandmother.
Thanks for that photo Creek. A Beauty of water, land and sky beyond description. Can’t wait to view the video.
Will watch, thanks.
Thank you very much.
A wonderful video with perfect production values.
VERY nice! Thanks for posting.
Eric, With your permission, can I post it on Facebook to show our fellow Michiganders and, remind them the true beauty of our state?
I’m not Eric but I’m assuming he intends it for distribution.
Absolutely gorgeous!!! Thanks for posing, can’t wait for part 2. I sent the direct vimeo link to my BIL who is a media college professor in Maine who still misses Michigan. He’s also done some time lapse. Have never seen Tahquamenon in the winger, been several coon’s ages since I was in the UP too.
Very cool cripp’s.
You do the state justice.
Just beautiful.
Wonderful video CC. The northern lights are on my computer monitor as a screen saver just to keep me cool down here in Florida and remind me of my Michigan roots. Keep up the good work.
After my dad retired in the 1960s from FoMoCo as an engineer, his new avocation became Michigan Historian. His articles appeared in “Michigan Out of Doors” and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. I still have some of his original drafts and manuscript carbon copies that he cranked out on a portable typewriter.
Some of the scenes involving stars seemed a little suspect.
Having grown up on Lake Charlevoix in Boyne City, I have fond memories of what was available to me in terms of hunting, fishing, water skiing, snow skiing and just walking fields and forests behind my house just outside of town.
Last summer I ventured up there for my 45 year class reunion, maybe the third time I had been up there in the past 30 years or so.
Times have certainly changed over the years; condos on the waterfront, new houses everywhere, even the once dirt road that ran up past my house now accesses small subdivisions along its route.
There's been no substantive industry created to allow for this influx of housing but rather they're the "up-north" homes of the wealthy from southern Michigan and northern Ohio..........
There are several old friends who have made fortunes up there in real estate sales and new home design and construction, but the vast majority of those who lived in town now live outside in the various small townships which have been created where the tax base is smaller.
Boyne City is where I grew up but it's no longer a place I want to spend my remaining years......
Obviously taken along the shore line of Lake Superior.........no background city lights.
I used to witness the same night sky on my pheasant hunting trips to N.W. Kansas........truly amazing.
I’ll be happy if I find that Heaven is really Grand Marais Michigan.
Those crappy little towns like Petosky and Boyne City are now trendy tourist traps with upscale remodeled vacation homes. Even the Dilworth Hotel looked like it was being renovated - I remember the crank telephones in wooden boxes on the walls in the rooms. It's amazing how the whole area has boomed.
My nominee for best night skies in the U.S. -- Big Bend and the Davis Mountains of West Texas.
The Milky Way and the constellations all stand out in sharp relief. And the stars are so thick, they look like a carpet.
There's a reason they put McDonald Observatory there.
Like Traverse City...Back in the 60’s seems all the locals knew each other...
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