Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This evening, a half hour before dusk, I found this chair on the edge of a small forest next to an abandoned mobile home park in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. All that remains of the former trailer park is this chair and the concrete slabs that the trailers sat on.

 

[farlymac]

Reminds me of the photos series where the guy hauled a red couch around to to be photographed at different places. Your shot though looks more natural.

PF

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Reminds me of the photos series where the guy hauled a red couch around to to be photographed at different places. Your shot though looks more natural.

PF

I remeber that project. I think they published a book! Mine looks natural because I didn't move it...I found it where I photographed it.

 

[BardParker]

Chris, I continue to love your work. The orange chair is wonderful. looks like you may have used your Mamiya 6 on that one? Fantastic image!

Kent
(fellow Hoosier born and raised in Monroe County)

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Chris, I continue to love your work. The orange chair is wonderful. looks like you may have used your Mamiya 6 on that one? Fantastic image!

Kent
(fellow Hoosier born and raised in Monroe County)

Kent,
Thanks. I actually shot it with my Canon 5DmkII. I have never shot any color in my Mamiya 6. It has become too difficult and expensive for me to shoot color film. There are no decent photo labs left anywhere in Indiana. The last good pro lab closed in 2007.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Yesterday, I went back to the chair in the woods and photographed it again, because snow had fallen the night before. This was my last photograph of 2013. Hope everyone has a great year to come!

 

[gb hill]

Good photo to finish the year up on Chris. Hope to see more fine work in 2014. Hope your son is doing well also.

 

[Steveh]

First comment from me on this thread I think but I always follow your new additions Chris. Aside from the interesting cultural implications this is a simply outstanding formal composition, absolutely perfect in the way all the colours and different graphic elements fit together - bravo. Love both this one and the orange chair.

A US friend once told me that the university sports thing is often about regional affiliations because there are (relatively) so few professional sports franchises. I have no idea whether that's right or not but here in the UK we have 92 professional football (soccer) teams in England alone so people who like football will either support one of the big four or five premier league teams or their local team, sometimes both. The idea of a college game pulling in 100,000 fans is completely alien from a European perspective but something I'd love to see live.

I photographed this house, just south of Fort wayne, this evening.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

At the end of 2011, I photographed the abandoned farmhouse that stood on this spot on the north side of Lower Huntington Road, just west of Coverdale Road, just outside Fort Wayne, Indiana. The house was demolished in the summer of 2013. All that was left was a broken pine tree, the gravel driveway that looped behind the house, and a field of mud.

I made this photograph on a foggy, rainy December afternoon a couple of weeks ago. The hills in the background are piles of overburden from the Hanson Limestone Quarry whose entrance is just down the street.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

First comment from me on this thread I think but I always follow your new additions Chris. Aside from the interesting cultural implications this is a simply outstanding formal composition, absolutely perfect in the way all the colours and different graphic elements fit together - bravo. Love both this one and the orange chair.

A US friend once told me that the university sports thing is often about regional affiliations because there are (relatively) so few professional sports franchises. I have no idea whether that's right or not but here in the UK we have 92 professional football (soccer) teams in England alone so people who like football will either support one of the big four or five premier league teams or their local team, sometimes both. The idea of a college game pulling in 100,000 fans is completely alien from a European perspective but something I'd love to see live.

Thanks, Steveh. I didn't realize there were so many professional Football/Soccer teams in the UK. Our pro sports leagues are much smaller. The funny thing is that college American Football games often attract larger crowds than NFL (professional) teams do. Some of the big state universities have larger football stadiums than some NFL teams do. Crazy!

Basketball is more popular than Football in Indiana. We have an NBA (professional) basketball team, the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis. Two of our state universities, Indiana University and Purdue University, have basketball teams that have been more popular than the Pacers as long as I can remember!

 

[raid]

The whole set of images is very nice, Chris. I like it.

Thanks.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The whole set of images is very nice, Chris. I like it.

Thanks.

Thanks, Raid. 🙂🙂

 

[Iestrada]

As always, beautiful shots.

Steve, there really are a lot more professional teams than what you might think. I do not know the totals but there is American football, hokey, baseball, basketball, real football (ok. Soccer), also there are what is referred to as minor leagues in hokey, baseball, and soccer. There are other sports that also have a professional league. Lacrosse is one of them. When you add them all up there are many, many professional level teams spread all around the country. It only means that loyalties are very, very devided. The biggest mayor difference is that unlike the rest of the world, the average fan of any one sport has not spent a lifetime playing the "one" sport they now support as spectators.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This little convenience store, known simply as "The Food Shop," is at the corner of West Main Street and Center Street on the working class west side of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it during a snowstorm a couple weeks before Christmas.

 

[robert blu]

I really love your work Chris! Your orange chair (with and without snow) is absolutely fantastic!
I like how you are committed to documenting the place where you live with its stories.
I take opportunity to wish you and your son a good 2014!
robert

 

[helen.HH]

Love the Orange Cair WITHOUT the Snow....😀

 

[farlymac]

I remeber that project. I think they published a book! Mine looks natural because I didn't move it...I found it where I photographed it.

That was exactly what I meant. I try not to mar the landscape when I'm out shooting.

PF

 

[rjbuzzclick]

Love the Orange Cair WITHOUT the Snow....😀

I agree, it's a fantastic shot.

 

[jsrockit]

Love the Orange Cair WITHOUT the Snow....😀

Me too.... thought it would be a nice diptyc as well.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The 13-24 Drive-In is one of a handful of drive-in theaters still operating in small towns in northern Indiana. It is located on State Road 13, north of US-24, just outside Wabash, Indiana. I photographed it just before sunset on a fall evening after it had closed for the season. We get pretty harsh winters in this part of the United States, so the drive-ins are only open a few months in spring and summer each year.​

The 13-24 is owned by the Honeywell Foundation, an arts organization in Wabash. They operate the drive-in as a nonprofit business to keep alive a part of the town's history.​