Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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Another photo of the house whose yard was covered in inflatable Christmas decorations back in December in the small town of Wolf Lake, Indiana.

The golf cart in the driveway displayed a large Trump For President sign on the back of it.

 

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^ Wonder if they're still displaying the sign ? Peter

 

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^ Wonder if they're still displaying the sign ? Peter

Last time I was up that way, I didn't see the golf cart in the driveway. I don't know if it still has the Trump sign on it. I still see a lot of Trump signs (and a few Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton signs) on display all over northeast Indiana, though most people took their political signs down after the election.

 

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After Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of The United States, the owner of this house lynched Trump in effigy from a tall tree in his front yard.​

Trump was later cut down from the tree, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his body at the bottom of the tree.​

The house is on Oakdale Drive on the south side of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The owner, an Army veteran named Mike Cunningham, hates President Donald Trump so much that the front of his house is covered in anti-Trump signs.​

 

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This life-size sculpture of Jesus Christ stands next to a small farmhouse on Johnson Road in rural northwest Allen County, Indiana.

 

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Here's the last of my photos of the house whose yard was covered in inflatable Christmas decorations back in December. The house is in the small town of Wolf Lake, Indiana.

This photo shows the back yard, where most of the inflatables were located. That part of the yard faces the playground of Wolf Lake Elementary School, which is right next to the house.

 

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This old barn is on the east side of Rapp Road, just north of Washington Center Road, in rural northwest Allen County, Indiana.​

The roof has a large cross formed from light colored shingles, and there is a large American flag painted on the south side of the barn. The owner told me that one of his sons, a military veteran, painted the flag.​

I photographed it on a rainy winter evening.​

 

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One of my neighbors has several old cars and trucks parked behind his house. This is the front of his turquoise 1958 Chevrolet Viking Low Cab Forward truck.

 

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This is an International Harvester KB-1 pickup truck from the late 1940s. This model was made in 1947, 1948, and 1949, but I can’t find enough information to determine the correct year for the one in this photograph.​

It is painted with flames like a hot rod, and was sitting in front of B&G Auto Repair on the corner of Lower Huntington Road and Old Trail Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

 

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This scene is on State Road 37, just west of State Road 101, in rural northeast Allen County, Indiana. The sign on the fence behind the little girl's bike says: "It's your choice - Heaven or Hell. Read John 3:36."​

John 3:36 is a verse from the Bible: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."​

Religious signs like this, identical in size and construction but with different messages, are posted in front of farmhouses all over the northeast corner of Allen County. The people in this area are very religious, even by the usual standards of rural Indiana.​

 

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This heart-shaped wooden gate is next to a house on the west side of Diamond Avenue in an inner-city neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana.

 

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This scene is on State Road 37, just west of State Road 101, in rural northeast Allen County, Indiana. The sign on the fence behind the little girl's bike says: "It's your choice - Heaven or Hell. Read John 3:36."

At least it's an acknowledgement of free will.

 

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This is a 1958 Pontiac Indian Head Hood Ornament. Interestingly, it is mounted on the hood of a 1958 Chevrolet Viking Truck!​

This truck is one of several old cars and trucks that one of my neighbors has parked behind his house.​

Pontiac cars used an Indian head on their hood ornaments because the brand was named for a Native American chief named Pontiac. His tribe, the Ottowa, lived in the area around the modern city of Detroit, Michigan.​

 

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This is a 1958 Pontiac Indian Head Hood Ornament. Interestingly, it is mounted on the hood of a 1958 Chevrolet Viking Truck!​

Well seen! Great colours and tones... if you don't mind my asking, what did you take this with?

 

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Well seen! Great colours and tones... if you don't mind my asking, what did you take this with?

Canon 5DmkII, handheld at ISO-400 with the Canon 24-105mm f4L-IS lens that came with it. I've used this camera for all of the color work I have done since the beginning of 2012. I have a couple other lenses for it, but the 24-105 is what I use for most of my work.

 

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Canon 5DmkII, handheld at ISO-400 with the Canon 24-105mm f4L-IS lens that came with it. I've used this camera for all of the color work I have done since the beginning of 2012. I have a couple other lenses for it, but the 24-105 is what I use for most of my work.

Thanks for the details. Just thought I'd say that I wasn't trying to be a 'gear-head'😉 - it was simply that I liked the colours/tones, and wondered how you got them. This is digital processing which suits my taste... which is quite rare. I use both digital (a lot) and film (a little), but I'm hardly ever 100% satisfied with my digital processing. However, I would have been well-pleased if I'd produced output such as this.

On a more general note, I've been really enjoying this series. It's a great body of work - thanks for posting it on here!

 

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This building at the corner of Broadway and Stophlet Street in Fort Wayne is home to an antiques and used clothing store called "Little Shop of Laura's." I first photographed the bench in 2013, soon after Laura Hancock, the store's owner, painted it to look like the American flag.​

Laura later added the chalkboard, whose message changes every week or so. This time it said: "We Care About You. For Real."​

 

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Red Angel Pizza is a small locally-owned pizzeria on High Street in the small town of Hicksville, Ohio.​

As in many small towns in the midwest, Hicksville's 'Downtown Main Street' area is still dominated by long rows of storefronts in old two or three story brick commercial buildings that were built in the period from the 1870s to the 1920s.​

 

[Moto-Uno]

^ Chris , I can hardly believe the place is actually called "Hicksville" !! Old city elders
must of had a sense of humour . Peter