Iconic Ann Arbor

04/14/2026

FestiFools celebrated its 20 year anniversary yesterday! 😁

I think the showdown between the Detroit Party Marching Band and the FestiFools drummers was my favorite moment of the parade 😃


©Marcin Szczepanski/www.marcinvisuals.com

04/14/2026

FestiFools 2026!

04/14/2026

FestiFools celebrated its 20 year anniversary yesterday! 😁

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

FestiFools and FoolMoon festivals are less than a week away! Who's going? 😆

I've recently had a chance to photograph festival volunteers hard at work on creating large-scale papier-mâché sculptures under the guidance of festivals’ creator, Mark Tucker.

This year, FestiFools celebrates its 20th anniversary.

I plan to photograph both evens so please wave if you see me there. 😁

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©Marcin Szczepanski/www.marcinvisuals.com

04/04/2026

Happy Easter!

This morning I had an opportunity to photograph a beautiful Polish tradition - Święconka.

Fr. Tom Wasilewski blessed the baskets of Polish and American parishioners during the traditional Easter Basket Blessing "Święconka" celebration on Holy Saturday at Old St. Patrick Church in Ann Arbor, MI.

Święconka (shvyen-TSOON-kah) is the cherished Polish tradition of blessing Easter baskets on Holy Saturday. Families fill baskets with symbolic foods—eggs, bread, sausage, salt, and horseradish—lined with white linen and decorated with greenery, to be blessed by a priest. Święconka symbolizes new life, the end of Lenten fasting and gratitude for the Resurrection and is eaten on Easter Sunday morning.

This tradition is very popular in Poland and Ukraine as well as some regions of Italy, Greece and Austria. In Poland, its roots may actually reach back to pre-Christian, pagan times,
as a celebration of spring and fertility.

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04/02/2026

I’m told there are fewer than ten full-time, professional blacksmiths left in the state of Michigan. And Andrew Kyte of Kyte Metalwerks is one of them.

I recently had the opportunity to photograph him in his blacksmithing shop just west of Ann Arbor.

Kyte’s work is rooted in Old World blacksmithing techniques, honed through years spent apprenticing with master blacksmiths in Germany and Scandinavia. He is very talented and brings together elegant simplicity in design with the highest level of craftsmanship. He is also a cool person to talk to. 😀

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©Marcin Szczepanski/www.marcinvisuals.com

04/02/2026

I’m told there are fewer than ten full-time, professional blacksmiths left in the state of Michigan. And Andrew Kyte of Kyte Metalwerks is one of them.

I recently had the opportunity to photograph him in his blacksmithing shop just west of Ann Arbor.

Kyte’s work is rooted in Old World blacksmithing techniques, honed through years spent apprenticing with master blacksmiths in Germany and Scandinavia. He is very talented and brings together elegant simplicity in design with the highest level of craftsmanship. He is also a cool person to talk to. 😀

Follow Iconic Ann Arbor on Instagram and Facebook for more photography from around Ann Arbor.


©Marcin Szczepanski/www.marcinvisuals.com

03/29/2026

An estimated 7,000 protesters marched through downtown Ann Arbor today as part to the third nationwide “No Kings” protest.

02/13/2026

A chance encounter on the Diag: the U-M Rugby team turning fresh snowfall into an impromptu pick-up game on their walk back from practice ❄️🏉😁

©Marcin Szczepanski/www.marcinvisuals.com