Snowstorm in Ft. Wayne this afternoon.

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I went out to do some photographs this afternoon in the beautiful overcast light, when the sky opened up with a blowing snowstorm as soon as I stepped out of my car at the first place I stopped! The A.L.F. Coin Laundry was the first:

More photos from this afternoon coming soon.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I photographed this house in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, close to where I live, about 20 minutes after I photographed the laundromat, which is in the other side of town. It was still windy, but the snow stopped for a few minutes.

 

[robert blu]

Both are interesting photos, with a small preference from my side for the first with the laundry house placed between the trees, this let me think like on a stage in a theater.
robert

 

[35mmdelux]

I love your photos Chris. There is a consistency of thought throughout the images you post.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks, guys.

 

[Trius]

I always wondered where Alf got cleaned up. 😀

Between yesterday and today, we got about 14~16 inches.

 

[gb hill]

Love the colour work your presenting to us Chris. One thing I notice in many of your shots is that the towns people are quite patriotic. I suspect most of them are older, probably veterans.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks Greg. Yeah, people in Indiana are very patriotic, though when you talk to them, few have any idea what a free society really is. I'm always shocked to hear people here saying that the poor don't deserve the rights of citizenship, that people arrested for a crime should be assumed guilty immediately because the police never make mistakes, that people should never protest against the government (and they should be jailed of they try), blacks and the poor should not be allowed to vote, etc. Those ideas are very commonplace here. People wave the flag, but few understand what it stands for. Are they really patriots?

 

[Leigh Youdale]

Hmmm. Although always there as a visitor, which means I didn't always get the full picture, it seemed to me there was a rough correlation between how far from the East or West Coasts you were, and how far South you were, and the conservatism of the local population - and their lack of interest in the world beyond the USA.
Lots of reasons for this of course, but it seemed more or less consistent.
Anyway, that's nothing to do with Chris's photographs and I, too, like them. There have been a couple of stellar portfolios in Lenswork too by Shelby Lee Adams - in Hazard, Kentucky, and Perry Dilbeck - "Truck Farmers of the Deep South".

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Hmmm. Although always there as a visitor, which means I didn't always get the full picture, it seemed to me there was a rough correlation between how far from the East or West Coasts you were, and how far South you were, and the conservatism of the local population - and their lack of interest in the world beyond the USA.
Lots of reasons for this of course, but it seemed more or less consistent.
Anyway, that's nothing to do with Chris's photographs and I, too, like them. There have been a couple of stellar portfolios in Lenswork too by Shelby Lee Adams - in Hazard, Kentucky, and Perry Dilbeck - "Truck Farmers of the Deep South".

Well we're in the north, we also have historically had the largest Ku Klux Klan membership well into the 1990s. People here don't even have any interest in other parts of the USA. I am still amazed how many people I have met here who have never left Indiana, ever. Not even on a vacation.