Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Jamie Pillers]

Thanks, Robbeiflex. Wind farms are common in the western United States. I saw a lot of them in Texas and Oklahoma when I lived out in New Mexico, but they're just starting to appear in the midwestern states. There aren't any in the part of Indiana where I live, but this one in Ohio is just a 20 minute drive from Fort Wayne.

Here's another photo of the scene, this time just showing the tree and basketball hoop.

I like this image a lot, Chris. If feels like its telling a story about time passing by. It'd make a great book cover for a novel about kids coming-of-age.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I like this image a lot, Chris. If feels like its telling a story about time passing by. It'd make a great book cover for a novel about kids coming-of-age.

Thanks, Jamie. When I drove past it, I instantly thought that it was the classic Indiana landscape. The backyard tree, basketball, the cornfield. Too bad it was a half mile inside Ohio!


Here's a new photo I shot tonight, close to where I live.

This beat-up old Pontiac Grand-Am was parked in front of Captain Ron's Corral, a country bar on Bluffton Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. It looks like it was used as a race car, though I've never seen one with spray-painted numbers before. The bar's logo is painted on the hood, and there is spray-painted text all over the car that says the car is going to be a prize in a raffle!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Yesterday evening, I drove to North Manchester, a small town in Wabash County, Indiana, about 20 miles west of Fort Wayne. I photographed this old Sunoco gas station and its resident cat. It had been raining for a while, and finally stopped as I was photographing.

 

[kbg32]

Thanks, Jamie. When I drove past it, I instantly thought that it was the classic Indiana landscape. The backyard tree, basketball, the cornfield. Too bad it was a half mile inside Ohio!


Here's a new photo I shot tonight, close to where I live.

This beat-up old Pontiac Grand-Am was parked in front of Captain Ron's Corral, a country bar on Bluffton Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. It looks like it was used as a race car, though I've never seen one with spray-painted numbers before. The bar's logo is painted on the hood, and there is spray-painted text all over the car that says the car is going to be a prize in a raffle!

I like the misspellings!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I like the misspellings!

Me too! If you're gonna spray-paint words on a car, then you ought to at least spell them right, lol.

 

[jsrockit]

Here's another photo of the scene, this time just showing the tree and basketball hoop.

Another wonderful one Chris.

 

[kbg32]

Another wonderful one Chris.

Agree.....

 

[Vince Lupo]

Chris, you are doing some very important and significant work. Keep it up!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks, Vince, Keith, and jsrockit. Here is another photo of the cat at the gas station that I photographed yesterday.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is one of the most perfectly formed trees that I have ever seen. It is in a field along Lima Road (Indiana State Road 3) a little south of Huntertown, Indiana. It has been a favorite subject for several years, usually in black and white. This color photograph of it, which I just found in my archives and edited, is from 2004.

 

[jsrockit]

Beautiful. You just can' find that stuff in NYC. I need to rent a car and go into NY State.

 

[daveleo]

Chris, you are doing some very important and significant work. Keep it up!

I agree.
At some point, the world is going to "discover" Chris' work.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I agree.
At some point, the world is going to "discover" Chris' work.

Thanks, Dave. 🙂🙂

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Beautiful. You just can' find that stuff in NYC. I need to rent a car and go into NY State.

You should! Upstate New York is gorgeous, I wish I could afford to make a trip there to photograph. I am lucky in some ways, because Indiana is a fairly small state, geographically, so its not a major trip to drive most places , at least in the northern part of the state. Owning a good reliable car, my Crown Victoria, helps too. I could never afford to rent cars to go out shooting in. My big car is kinda expensive to drive because it has a V8, but its not so much that I cannot afford it, and it is a super comfortable car for driving long distances.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here is another one of the tree in the field along Lima Road, just outside Fort Wayne.

 

[Al Patterson]

Beautiful. You just can' find that stuff in NYC. I need to rent a car and go into NY State.

Yeah, some great country in the Catskills, Finger Lakes area and the Adirondaks. Too bad I went there in my pre-photography days.

 

[Al Patterson]

I like those recent tree shots.

 

[gb hill]

One of my photographs of a farmhouse on a hill in southern Indiana was used on a movie poster. The movie, Daylight, was filmed in Indiana and shown at the 2013 Frightfest film festival in London.

Awesome Chris. They made a good choice in picking out your photo to use.

 

[gb hill]

Here's the last of my photographs from the former auto repair shop in Uniondale, Indiana.

I believe if the state of Indiana ever ceased to exhist. The American Flag companies would go out of business. 😀 Keep em coming Chris.

 

[csxcnj]

This is one of the most perfectly formed trees that I have ever seen. It is in a field along Lima Road (Indiana State Road 3) a little south of Huntertown, Indiana. It has been a favorite subject for several years, usually in black and white. This color photograph of it, which I just found in my archives and edited, is from 2004.

I'd buy that one. I like images that project peacefulness. Love to see it in B&W.

cheers, Bob