Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
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
Real Men Shoot Film.
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
Real Men Shoot Film.
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
neo-romanticist
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
Real Men Shoot Film.
Me too! If you're gonna spray-paint words on a car, then you ought to at least spell them right, lol.
Here's another photo of the scene, this time just showing the tree and basketball hoop.
Another wonderful one Chris.
kbg32
neo-romanticist
Agree.....
Vince Lupo
Whatever
Chris, you are doing some very important and significant work. Keep it up!
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Thanks, Vince, Keith, and jsrockit. Here is another photo of the cat at the gas station that I photographed yesterday.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
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.
Beautiful. You just can' find that stuff in NYC. I need to rent a car and go into NY State.
daveleo
what?
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
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
Real Men Shoot Film.
Here is another one of the tree in the field along Lima Road, just outside Fort Wayne.
Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
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
Ferroequinologist
I like those recent tree shots.
gb hill
Veteran
Awesome Chris. They made a good choice in picking out your photo to use.
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.
gb hill
Veteran
I believe if the state of Indiana ever ceased to exhist. The American Flag companies would go out of business.
Here's the last of my photographs from the former auto repair shop in Uniondale, Indiana.
Keep em coming Chris.
csxcnj
Well-known
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