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More Than a Simon & Garfunkel Lyric In the Simon and Garfunkel song America, a line from the song goes, "It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw." Growing up two and a half hours north of there, that song reference was the first I'd ever heard of Saginaw. People would talk about how…
Ed and Cindi John The temperature was well below freezing and the wind was making sure it stayed that way. As my boots made the crunch...crunch...through snow and ice while trudging toward a fishing boat, a seagull delivered a side-eye glance to see if I'd be worth following; it judged correctly and flew away. Peshawbestown,…
Continue reading ➞ Voyaging: The Treaty Fish Co., Peshawbestown, Mich.
Let's Roll The Cadieux Cafe in Detroit's east side serves up an impressive selection of Belgian beers along with mussels and other specialties. It's a unique place, not just for the food and drink though. Walk through two doors at an end of the bar and you'll be encountering a game rarely played anywhere, let…
Continue reading ➞ Feather Bowling: A Bygone Belgian Pastime Is Revered in Detroit
Look at the palm of your right hand; that's Michigan, the lower peninsula. Follow your middle finger to the tip and that's where Mackinaw City is. Now, look at the palm of your left hand, that's Michigan's upper peninsula. Connect the tip of your left hand pinky finger with the tip of your right-hand middle…
Continue reading ➞ Voyaging: Mackinaw City, MI—Crossroads in the State Made with Hands
Hemingway Fished Here The first time I remember hearing the word 'Seney' was in the late 1990s or early 2000s when a friend and I were helping a buddy move back to college in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A road on our helpful journey we were to take was called the 'Seney Stretch'; just hearing the…
In the springtime, I'd photographed subjects, places and people relating to the coronavirus. Those photos were self assigned, as I wanted to visually document what I could during that time. The benefits of self assigning myself that work was that I had the convenience of photographing in the town I live, there were no deadlines…
Continue reading ➞ On Assignment: Muskegon, Mich. for The Wall Street Journal
The Traverse City Record-Eagle newspaper recently contacted me to make images to be used without a story attached. These types of photos can be called 'features', 'spec photos' and 'wild art'. There have been so many photos focused on coronavirus that the challenge was to find something that wasn't the typical photos of…
Continue reading ➞ On Assignment: Feature Hunting during COVID-19
