Another old house in Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I made this late in the evening as the sun was setting. Had to use a 2 second exposure on Fuji Acros in my Hasselblad. I decided to try developing in PMK, which I had never used for Acros. I like the result!

 

[charjohncarter]

Like you, I'm a lover of this type of photography. But, I live in California where there just aren't any interesting subjects like this, unless you drive 75 miles. Anyway, I like the shot (and results).

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Why can't you find places like this out there? I've never been to California, so I don't know what its like there. Interesting old buildings are common here, but a lot are being torn down.

 

[mw_uio]

Hi Chris,
Great shot! What hand held meter are you using?

Mark

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Hi Chris,
Great shot! What hand held meter are you using?

Mark

Minolta Flash Meter VI. I use the spot meter for black and white and the incident for slide film.

 

[MCTuomey]

beautiful, chris. classic of the upper midwest's working people. great choice of details!

 

[Leigh Youdale]

Like you, I'm a lover of this type of photography. But, I live in California where there just aren't any interesting subjects like this, unless you drive 75 miles. Anyway, I like the shot (and results).

I imagine that much of urban California is 50's kitsch (or later) and that whatever there might have been there before the housing developers moved in got flattened and carted away. But I also thought there were Spanish or Mexican settlements that might have yielded some opportunities - is this what you are referring to when you talk about "75 miles" away?

 

[MCTuomey]

I think what Carter refers to as "interesting subjects like this" are the small, single family homes which were built during the early 20th century laborer "migrations" into the U.S. upper midwest, rather than interesting subjects in general. This housing stock in many cities of the midwest is declining, a sign of the decline of these cities and this particular economic class as manufacturing moved to regions of lower production (labor) cost. Probably because I live in the upper midwest, I find a great deal of poignancy in Chris' images of these old houses.

 

[robert blu]

Really good tones. And the subject, the framing is interesting. I like that kind of geometry given by the windows frames, the arch, the flag, the part of the main door and the small stones around the flowerbed. There is a visual poetry in your photo, Chris.
robert

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I live in California where there just aren't any interesting subjects like this

I find the comment interesting (he) because I've realized that "interesting" usually depends on one's environment.

I now live in France, and I find it very eye-opening that they find American cities like, say, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as "interesting" (some would even call Pomona "exotic").

I lived in Minneapolis (for waaaaaaay too long) and now looking at the "boring" photos I took there (and surroundings), I find them "interesting". There are places that I found downright boring, and now looking at the few photos I took of those places, I find them quite not so.

Also, translating that into your lens' frame, processing/post-processing, it can come across as "interesting".