A couple watches the sun touch lake Michigan from the Grand Haven Pier and Lighthouse. Photography by Bill Vriesema.

The Frankfort lighthouse glows in the deep blue sky of a midsummer dawn. Photography by Steven Huyser-Honig.

Still in use between Big and Little Sable Points, the Pentwater South Pierhead Light is the only remaining tower light boasting a traditional skeletal structure. Photo by Todd Reed.

Large gathering of ducks during spring migration along Lake Michigan, as seen from Holland State Park and the iconic Big Red lighthouse. Photo by Stacy Niedzwiecki.

“Earlier today in our gallery we were discussing with a Bass Lake couple how fleeting the peak moments of magic light or atmosphere are when they do appear in front of us. Now I stand …

The moon backlights clouds above the Point Betsie lighthouse shortly before sunrise in this image captured by Steven Huyser-Honig.

“This is really what the inner range light in Grand Haven looked like at a few minutes after 6:00pm. The photo is essentially straight out of camera, and required very little digital manipulation.” – photographer Christopher Kierkus.

“This evening featured what was probably the most magical light I’ve ever experienced in my life. Believe it or not these shots have very little post processing, this is what it really looked like when I was standing there.” – photographer Christopher Kierkus.

The White River Light Station and Museum in Whitehall on a cold frosty winter morning. Photography by John Dykstra.

A view along the Grand River channel at Grand Haven State Park on a very cold evening after sunset. Photography by John Dykstra.

“I pre-visualized how the Charlevoix Lighthouse might look three hours and 150 miles before I got there. The fresh coat of ice on the Charlevoix pier from yesterday’s north wind and waves looks even better than I envisioned.” – photographer Todd Reed.

This winter landscape image was captured in St. Joseph Michigan, and is a personal favorite of the photographer, Christopher Kierkus.

Ribbons of ice stream at a forty-five degree angle from the catwalk leading to the Manistee North Pier lighthouse. The clouds are breaking, the sun breaks through, the storm is over. Photo by Steven Huyser-Honig.

“The fresh snow and scattered clouds were the only hints remaining of the storm that had passed on the night before I visited the Forty Mile Point lighthouse, just outside of Roger City, Michigan.” – photographer Steven Huyser-Honig.

“This evening featured what was probably the most magical light I’ve ever experienced in my life. Believe it or not these shots have very little post processing, this is what it really looked like when I was standing there on the St. Joseph Pier!” – photographer Christopher Kierkus.

“On the morning of Christmas Eve, 1999, I was eager to try out the new camera that my dad had bought me for Christmas. He and I drove to one of our favorite places in the world, Little Point Sable Lighthouse.” – photographer Brad Reed

This stunning image of the pier of Grand Haven during a winter sunset won First Place in the Spring 2010 “Pure Michigan” photo contest. Photography by Christopher Kierkus.

“The weather was not cooperating, but once I ventured out to the walkway and saw the puddles of water, I knew I could use the reflections of the lighthouse to get a unique image.” – photographer Bill Vriesema.

“An upper level storm system moved quickly through the Great Lakes region, producing high winds and waves on Lake Michigan at Grand Haven.” – photographer Stacy Niedzwiecki

Presque Isle Harbor, north of Marquette, Michigan, has an active ore dock. The lighthouse is at the end of a very long doglegged breakwater. The first half of the breakwater is concrete, but the rest is made of rough-hewn rock. Photography by Steven Huyser-Honig.

The Gladstone Lighthouse at Van Cleve Park, along the shores of the Little Bay De Noc at Gladstone, Delta County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Photography by Guadalupe Dove.

“The day was Nov. 10, 1975. It was-and still is-the roughest I have seen Lake Michigan. I was amazed by the 20 to 30 foot waves slamming into the Ludington lighthouse.” – photographer Todd Reed

Gale force winds dash high seas against the Saint Joseph, Michigan, pier and lighthouses in a photo by Steven Huyser-Honig.

“Photographing the Northern Lights at Big Sable Point Lighthouse has been towards the top of my bucket list for several years. After the light show on October 24, 2011, I can now cross that off …

On October 26, 2010 Michigan experienced a near hurricane wind event. Seventy mph. winds lashed the Lake Michigan coast. Captured at Frankfort, Michigan by Tom Haxby, this dramatic black and white image shows the power of nature.

MichiganMoments.com photographer Stacy Niedzwiecki would like to invite you to visit (and hopefully vote for!) Nice Ice – her Grand Haven ArtWalk 2011 entry piece on display at The Frame and Mat Shop in downtown Grand Haven!

Photographer Christopher Kierkus captured this huge wave hitting the lighthouse at the end of the pier in South Haven, Michigan.

The ferry Badger heads off into an breathtaking storm front on Lake Michigan, captured in a photo by Brad Reed.

The iconic St. Joseph Lighthouse and pier silhouetted against the colorful skies above Lake Michigan, as captured by photographer John Dykstra.

“At least once more in my lifetime I would like the privilege of photographing a moment as power-packed as this one I witnessed in September 1997. I was as charged as the air about me as an enormous storm cloud fired lightning bolts faster than a giant Gattling gun and swept across Lake Michigan toward my vantage point on the Ludington shoreline. I believe recording this magnificent moment was God’s will. We named it “God’s Light.” ~ Todd Reed

“I came upon this dune grass with Big Sable Lighthouse towering in the background. I knew immediately I was in the presence of a good picture.” ~ Todd Reed

A sunset on the Bay in Petoskey, Michigan – as captured by photographer Wayne Pope.

A young mom and her baby were playing on the beach at St. Joseph, Michigan at sunset, photographed by Christopher Kierkus.

The Ontonagon lighthouse glows across the Ontonagon River channel in this photo by Steven Huyser-Honig.