Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks Dabick42. 🙂

 

[v_roma]

Same here. This is a thread I always check out when it pops up on the main page. I really enjoy your work and I'm sorry to hear about hear about the financial woes.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Same here. This is a thread I always check out when it pops up on the main page. I really enjoy your work and I'm sorry to hear about hear about the financial woes.

Thanks. Things will get better once I am able to move away from Fort Wayne. I used to live in Santa Fe, and did well there. Indiana is just a hard place to make a living as a creative person.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another one from the abandoned farmhouse in Adams County, Indian that is surrounded by old semi-truck trailers. I shot this on Christmas Eve.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another from the abandoned farm with old semi trailers.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This handwritten note, stuck to the electrical box of an abandoned farmhouse by a magnet, asks the electric company to leave the electric service connected because the owner is in Decatur (the nearest town) paying the bill. This is the house surrounded by old trailers on County Road 1050N, just west of County Road 450W in Adams County, Indiana.

 

[benlees]

Strange to see a digital power meter on such a house. Guess they never came back.

 

[robert blu]

Chris, interesting pictures as usual. I wish you a 2013 full of health, good business and much joy with your son!
robert

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Strange to see a digital power meter on such a house. Guess they never came back.

Several yrs ago, the electric company up here changed everyone to a digital meter. I did find it strange it was still turned on though.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I shot this 15 years ago

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

My first photograph of 2013. I've been sick the last couple weeks with a bad respiratory infection, so couldn't go out in the cold to work. i'm finally feeling better!

Santa Claus has traded in his reindeer and sleigh! I found him in his camo pickup truck next to a house on Ardmore Avenue, just north of Engle Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I shot this a couple hours ago.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I rescanned this one from 2001. This cat belonged to Richard Youse, an 87 year old man who lived in an ancient farmhouse with his many cats. I met him in 2001 and photographed him and his cats many times. This cat had only three legs, but Mr. Youse said he was a good mouser.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another one from Richard Youse's House.

I've always wondered about some of the strange patterns found on domestic cats. Many are colors that would stick out plainly, ruining the camouflage that predators usually use to hide from prey. It all makes sense when you remember that many animals cannot see color. This black and white photograph of a tortoiseshell cat shows how effectively she blends in with the surrnoundings, despite her bright orange splotches and stripes.

This is of the 15 cats that lived with Mr. Youse, sitting among the ruins of a side room that fell off the house a few months after this photograph was made. The house was surrounded by the dried stalks of tall weeds, perfect hunting territory for a hungry kitty!

You can see photos of Mr. Youse, and his story, on my website:
http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=11

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I made this photograph back in 2008. When I made it, I promised the woman who lived there that I would bring her a print. I had to move soon after, and ended up misplacing the negative. I didn't find it in my archives until near the end of 2012, and I made a print of it for her a few days ago.

When I took it to her house this afternoon, her elderly father was there. He told me that she had died a couple of years ago, aged 47, from heart problems. I gave him the print, but I felt terrible that I had not been able to get it to his daughter, whom I had promised it to, before she passed away.

 

[tjh]

Same here. This is a thread I always check out when it pops up on the main page. I really enjoy your work and I'm sorry to hear about hear about the financial woes.

Me too, your photos are some of my favorites.

Tom

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks, Tom.

Here is another from many years ago. Its been on my website for several years, but I re-edited the file yesterday to fix some problems with the original scan.

This is one of my favorite photographs, made with a FIVE MINUTE exposure on Fuji Acros at dusk.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is still one of my favorite portraits, 16 years after I made it. She was a classmate when I was in art school.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another one from my archives, newly added to my website.

The rural areas outside Fort Wayne are dotted with tiny 19th Century cemeteries. Some are kept in good condition, while others, like this one, are abandoned and forgotten. This pile of broken tombstones was one of several at the Brenton Chapel Cemetery on the east side of Coverdale Road, south of Airport Expressway in Allen County, Indiana.

 

[daveleo]

For whatever it's worth . . . your pictures are wonderful.

That's actually an understatement of how I feel about your work.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

For whatever it's worth . . . your pictures are wonderful.

That's actually an understatement of how I feel about your work.

Thanks Dave. 🙂

Here's another one from my archives, an early one! I shot it in 1998 as part of my art school graduation thesis (I finished my BFA in 1999). The house was torn down a couple weeks after I photographed it.