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Last week, I photographed this windmill on a farm on State Road 37, near the Indiana-Ohio State Line in rural northeast Allen County, Indiana.
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Still working on my backlog of photos I need to edit. I photographed this barbershop back in 2016.
This barbershop is on the north side of Pearl Street, just east of Huntington Street (State Road 13) in the small town of Syracuse, Indiana.
I don't know the name of the place, since there was no sign. It might be out of business.
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An old lighted American flag decoration in the window of an abandoned trailer. The trailer looked like the sort of trailer that construction contractors use as mobile offices on job sites. It wasn't a mobile home or a camping trailer.
The trailer was facing an alley on the west side of Center Street, just south of West Main Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I photographed in the evening near sunset last Thursday.
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Last Thursday, I photographed this minivan sitting on West Main Street in a working class neighborhood just west of downtown in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Someone had written "I BELIEVE" in the snow on the minivan's back window!
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This modern door, a type commonly used as the front door on houses, looks out of place on the side of this weatherbeaten old barn in the small town of Harlan, Indiana.
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These basketball backboards stand next to a farmhouse on State Road 37, near the Indiana-Ohio state line, in rural northeast Allen County, Indiana.
I thought it was unusual that there were two backboards mounted on the same support, one above the other. The top one is in bad condition, and no longer has a hoop; but it looks like it is regulation height (ten feet). The newer one on the bottom is too low, though it would be great for kids to play with.
This is the same place where I photographed the old windmill that I posted several days ago. You can see the tower for it in this photo.
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It snowed in Fort Wayne today, so we'll have a white Christmas this year!
I went out and did some photographs in the snow this afternoon. This is one of the Rose of Sharon bushes that grow next to my driveway.
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An inflatable snowman and plastic candy canes stand in the front yard of a house on Arbor Avenue in my neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Although it is five days before Christmas, there is no snow on the ground, which is still covered in fall leaves. Snow finally came a few days later, on Christmas Eve.
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An inflatable snowman stands in the front yard of a house on Elmhurst Drive in my neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I photographed it in the evening, as sunset approached, on Christmas day.
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I photographed this house in my neighborhood on the morning after Christmas, very early at dawn. The nativity scene was partly buried in snow!
ACullen
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I really love your composition and empathy for the community you document. It's instructive to me that your pictures rarely actually depict people and yet people seem to be strongly invoked by the images of their buildings or possessions. That's a real skill.
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The last of the three photographs that I made of the dead sunflowers in my yard on the evening of December 9, which was the first day of heavy snowfall in Fort Wayne this winter.
Pfreddee
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Chris, I always enjoy your work. It has given me "permission", if you will, to photograph Buckingham County, Virginia, in a similar fashion. I just haven't gotten up the courage to start posting the results, not to mention I haven't a clue as to how to go about posting photos with captions on this forum...
With best regards,
Pfreddee(Stephen)
With best regards,
Pfreddee(Stephen)
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I'd love to see your photos. Start a thread in my forum if you want a critique from me, or start one in the Critique/RFF Projects/Salon Forum.
To answer your question about how to put your photos in RFF threads, I decided to create a new thread with directions on how to do it, to make it easier for other people to find too.
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163732
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Another photograph of the sunflowers in my yard. The snow and ice is melting off of the sunflower in this one, made a week after the snow fell.
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This house is also a barbershop called Doug's Sport Cuts. It is on the west side of Getz Road, just south of Illinois Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Their Christmas decorations, more "Fourth of July" than "Christmas", included patriotic red, white, and blue lights and USA sign.
I photographed it very early in the morning, right before dawn.
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Another photograph of the snow falling on my rose of sharon bushes during the snowstorm on Christmas Eve.
froyd
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This house is also a barbershop called Doug's Sport Cuts. It is on the west side of Getz Road, just south of Illinois Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Their Christmas decorations, more "Fourth of July" than "Christmas", included patriotic red, white, and blue lights and USA sign.
I photographed it very early in the morning, right before dawn.
Nice choice of light. Makes the cold more physical. What are the stripes of light on the roof of the house? Are they Christmas decorations covered by snow?
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Thanks, Froyd.
I didn't want it to be totally dark, because I wanted to see the house and yard a bit; but I didn't want it to be daylight either because the Christmas lights would not look as colorful. I actually stayed up all night waiting for the right time, then went there an hour early and waited in my car for the right light! This is right across the street from a Meijer store (a midwestern big box 'supercenter' store chain that's open 24 hours) so I waited in their parking lot.
The owners actually came out right when I decided the light was good so they could shovel snow! I talked to them for a few minutes before I took the photos.
I think the patterns on the roof are Christmas lights under the snow. I don't know why they put them in lines just in that one small part of the roof, but I think that's what it is.