Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[mfunnell]

I like the way the dark area surrounding the door isn't all due to shadow. That gave me a double-take on my first viewing, and led me to re-examine the photo more closely, to valuable effect. Thanks, as always, for posting.

...Mike

 

[Pickett Wilson]

These old farm house photos are really interesting. Gets me to thinking about the lives that were led there. So much history.

Love the photos.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

Room 28 at the Fairoak Motel. This is one of three little family owned motels within a one mile stretch of Bluffton Road in Waynedale. Virtually all other such motels have disappeared from Fort Wayne. When I went in the office on the other side of the building to ask permission to photograph, I read the room rates sign on the wall next to the counter. I was amused to see that they rent rooms by the hour!

Midwestern honesty and pragmatism. Honorable qualities both. You're doing great work. Important work too. Keep doing it.

 

[j j]

I like the way the dark area surrounding the door isn't all due to shadow. That gave me a double-take on my first viewing, and led me to re-examine the photo more closely, to valuable effect. Thanks, as always, for posting.

...Mike

I imagine that if Chris were to open the inner door it would reveal another shadow and another door...

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I like the way the dark area surrounding the door isn't all due to shadow. That gave me a double-take on my first viewing, and led me to re-examine the photo more closely, to valuable effect. Thanks, as always, for posting.

...Mike

Thanks Mike. This one was a challenge because the frame is painted black, and the harsh sun on the white siding and the deep shadows on the right were all things I had to think about when I set exposure and later when I developed the film. I developed it N-1 in Zone System terminology. It was easier to edit the scanned neg than I thought it would be. The developing and exposure I gave it made it all fall in to place easily. I usually avoid photographing in such light, but I loved the look of the shadow from the light fixture over the door, which wouldn't be there in the soft overcast light I usually prefer.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

These old farm house photos are really interesting. Gets me to thinking about the lives that were led there. So much history.

Love the photos.

Thanks Pickett. I think about that a lot too when I go inside these houses, especially ones where people leave a lot of possessions behind.

 

[denizg7]

The rural areas outside Fort Wayne were shrouded in heavy fog on the mornings of September 4th and 5th, 2012. I went out with my camera on both mornings, after taking my son to school. This cornfield is at the corner of Lower Huntington Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. I shot this one on the 4th.

really lovely Chris Crawford

 

[Michael Markey]

Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of approval Chris.
Interesting stuff .

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I made this one on Monday, the day after my birthday. I had photographed this house the first time back in 2001, and decided to return now and photograph it again. It is on Washington Center Road, just outside Fort Wayne in rural Allen County, Indiana.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is a side window on the same house that I posted a photo of yesterday.

 

[Ezzie]

Liked the house Chris. Once a lovely one I would bet.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks, Ezzie. It was a beautiful place. I never saw it when it was in good condition, but judging from what remains, it must have been a gorgeous home.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This 1965 Chevrolet truck sits beside one of the barns behind the abandoned farmhouse that I posted photos of a few days ago.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is at the same farm as the abandoned house and 1965 Chevy truck.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I photographed this house Monday afternoon.

This abandoned farmhouse is on Brindle Road, west of Coverdale Road, in rural southwest Allen County, Indiana. The main barn has a sign that says "Brindle Homestead."

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

For decades, this frog-shaped rock sat along Sandpoint Road behind the Hanson Limestone Quarry on the southwestern edge of Fort Wayne, Indiana. As long as anyone can remember, it has been painted like a green frog, with a white or yellow belly, and eyes. Nobody remembers who originally painted the frog, but over the years, it was often repainted when the old paint would begin to look shabby.

The secluded spot where the Frog sat was a popular place for teens to park and make out in their cars, even when my parents were young, as it was just down the street from the now-closed Elmhurst High School.

After the quarry bought all of the land on both sides of Sandpoint Road, the county allowed them to close the road, making the famous rock inaccessible to the public. After many local residents complained to the quarry's management, they moved the Frog to a spot next to the main entrance on Ardmore Avenue in the summer of 2012. It needs repainted badly; very little of the Frog's color remains.

I made this photo Friday evening.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here's an old photo of the Frog Rock, made in its original location behind the quarry, back in 2006. The paint is in better condition here.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another photo from the abandoned Brindle Homestead farm that I found last week in rural southwest Allen County, Indiana.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another photo from the abandoned Brindle Homestead farm. This is a little storage shed, one of several barns and sheds on the property.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here's another from the abandoned farm on Brindle Road that I have visited several times in the last few weeks. I made this one last weekend. The sign over the child's pedal car says "God Bless America."