Michigan, shot by the people who live here — both peninsulas, all four seasons.
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AllAboutMichigan.org
The Michigan we get to live in.
We travel both peninsulas with a camera in hand — the bridge at night, the birds in the backyard, the farms at harvest, and the little towns in between. This site is where the best of it lives.
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Four ways into Michigan
Everything on the page, gathered into one home — the wildlife, the working land, the places, and the sticker series that ties them together.
Michigan Birds
Cardinals, nuthatches, and whoever else shows up at the feeder — photographed up close, all year long.
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Crops & Farms
Milkweed and monarchs, county-fair fields, and the harvest work that feeds the state.
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Michigan Places
Lighthouses, lake towns, and the bridge — the spots we drive back to again and again.
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The Sticker Series
Four collectible landmark stickers, free at sponsor counters across Michigan. Scan the code on the back of any one of them and you land right here. Each design starts as one of our own photographs of the place, reworked into this illustrated style.
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The backyard is a front-row seat.
These cardinals and nuthatches were photographed on a February afternoon in a Merrill backyard — a long lens, a bag of seed, and the patience to wait for the look-back. The female cardinal runs this hub: quieter colors than her mate, and twice the personality.
Michigan’s woods and feeders stay busy in every season, and this is where the best frames live — with more added as the year turns.
Michigan Places
Shot where it happened
Every photo in this strip was taken on the road in Michigan — no stock, no borrowed shots. Swipe through a few favorites.
Grand Haven, Lake Michigan
The sun dropping straight into the lake behind the pier lights — the west side at its best.
Charlevoix the Beautiful
A summer sky over Lake Charlevoix, stacked with cloud and color from horizon to overhead.
The Mighty Mac, midday
Five miles of steel over the Straits, on a blue-sky day with the lake doing the rest.
Golden hour on the tower
Evening light catching the tower just before dark — the shot you wait around for.
The bridge at dusk
Pink sky, blue water, and the lights coming on — the view the nightly reel is built on.
From the drone
A river bend at last light, seen from above — Michigan keeps its best patterns for the sky.
Big Sable Point
The black-and-white tower north of Ludington, worth every step of the walk in.
Crops & Farms
The working side of the postcard
Michigan grows things. This hub follows the fields and fairs through the year — what is planted, what is blooming, and what is being harvested.
Milkweed season
The only plant a monarch caterpillar will eat, doing its fall work — pods split, seeds on the wind, next year’s butterflies accounted for.
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Fair season fields
County-fair season is a crop of its own — the grounds, the gardens, and the giant plants that show up every August.
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Four landmarks. One road trip.
The first All About Michigan sticker series — free at sponsor counters and welcome centers across the state. Each sticker carries its own code: scan it and you land on that landmark’s page, with the photos, the story, and the next stop on the trip.
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Every sticker’s back carries the Petoskey stone — Michigan’s state stone, a fossil coral older than the dinosaurs — and one true Michigan fact. This one: Michigan has more freshwater coastline than any other state in the country, over 3,200 miles of Great Lakes shoreline. Collect the set, learn the state.
Partners & Sponsors
The businesses that put Michigan on the counter
Sponsors stock the sticker series free for their customers and get featured here and on the page. Founding sponsor spots are open now.
Founding Sponsor
Your logo, your story, and a sticker spot at your counter — featured here at launch.
Founding Sponsor
Your logo, your story, and a sticker spot at your counter — featured here at launch.
Founding Sponsor
Your logo, your story, and a sticker spot at your counter — featured here at launch.
The bridge, every night. The birds, every morning.
All About Michigan posts a Mackinac Bridge reel every evening and the best of Michigan the rest of the day. Come along — 36,000 of your neighbors already have.
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