A collection of outbuildings on an historic farm in Leelanau County. Photography by Steven Huyser-Honig.

A historic display of farming tools used over the years, such as horse shoes, a small varmint trap, hay gripping tools, and the head of a broad axe that was most likely used to square off logs for lumber. Photo by Bill Vriesema.

“The fire barn at White Pine Village screams with color every day as I pass it by on my way to and from home.” – photographer Todd Reed

“This rusty old hinge barely hangs on to better days of the past. What was life like the day this hinge was nailed on? What was the shed used for? Who lived here?” Photographer Bill Vriesema captured this image in Lowell, Michigan.

“An amazingly huge rainbow – one of the biggest I have ever witnessed – just down the street my home in a field in Courtland Township, Michigan in northern Kent County. I raced out of my driveway hoping to capture it before the sun literally set after a powerful storm front came through on September 29, 2011.” ~ photographer Stacy Niedzwiecki

A hog farm with red barn and old tractor, photographed in Barry County, Michigan near Hastings in 1988 by Wayne Pope.

Early morning fog surrounds a barn on US-2 between Iron Mountain and Escanaba, Michigan in this photo by Guadalupe Dove.

The famous D.H. Day Farm in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore area as photographed by Stacy Niedzwiecki.

Photographer Stacy Niedzwiecki found this happy grouping of flowers at the groundskeeper shed of the Lake Bluff Audubon Center in Manistee, Michigan.

Photographer Christopher Kierkus and his wife had just left Fayette, Michigan to drive out to Peninsula Point Light Station. There were thunderstorms in the area and one of them collaborated with the sun to produce this beautiful display which he captured from the side of the road.

A window which looks into the garage and machine shop on the Bufka farm in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, as photographed by Steven Huyser-Honig.

Photographer John Dykstra says of his image, “I liked how the old, ragged barn wood complimented the windmill silhouette against the early morning sky. I also saw the barn as a filler of dead space and for framing.”

“Curious cows line a fence, while two others check things out from the flapped doorway that allows them to go in and out of their barn as they please. I always look forward to seeing …

Steven Huyser-Honig photographed this scene of a red barn and blue Ford truck in Newaygo county, Michigan.in Newaygo County, Michigan.

A Robert deJonge image captures the detail of a latch on a corn crib, at one of the historic farms of Port Oneida in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

An interior of an old barn with light streaming in from above, photographed by Robert deJonge in the Sleeping Bear Dunes area.

An old maple tree stands guardian over the restoration of the Martin Basch Farm in historic Port Oneida, Michigan in a photo by Robert deJonge.

Tom Haxby shares a bit about his photograph, taken December 2003 just east of Traverse City, Michigan. “I could not resist the red,white and blue colors and old barns are a favorite subject for many images. Today, this barn is even more weathered and has lost most of its red color.”

Fresh snow atop the gold crown of an old gasoline pump was the crowning touch to a winter picture of Cherry Hill Farm. Roger and Marcia Hansen restored the magnificent barn on Conrad Road between Ludington and Scottville just in time for the tour of Conrad Road barns held in the fall of 2008. Now all passersby have the opportunity to appreciate its beauty in all seasons.

In the fall of 2009 many of the apple trees held their apples for a long time. This has been altered in Photoshop© to allow the red apples and red barn to stand out by converting the rest of the image to a black and white.