Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[farlymac]

I miss the gentle Indiana snows. What I don't miss is working outside in them. Around here they usually come with a bit of wind rushing down the mountainsides. So far, we are just getting an all day rain out of this storm, but that's supposed to change over when the front passes through.

PF

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here's another from the snowstorm we had Sunday afternoon. This barn is just down the road from the schoolhouse in my last post.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I shot this Tire Barn store with its enormous American flag this afternoon. Been wanting to photograph it for a while now, it is something I drive past a few times a week, and finally got good light and wind today.

 

[farlymac]

I don't know how many times I've set up for a flag shot, only to have the breeze die. Sometimes it comes back, other times it doesn't. You caught that one just right, Chris.

PF

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I don't know how many times I've set up for a flag shot, only to have the breeze die. Sometimes it comes back, other times it doesn't. You caught that one just right, Chris.

PF

They're hard to get, even when there's enough wind. The flag's shape changes constantly, and the thing never looks exactly like what you saw when you push the shutter release since it moves during the small time lag before the shutter opens! Nice thing with digital, I can shoot lots until I see I got it perfect.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This barn is located on Robert Johnloz's farm on US-224, just east of State Road 301, in Wells County, Indiana. Mr. Johnloz's widow told me that the barn was actually built in 1890, but was purchased by the Johnloz family in 1930. Robert died in 2008 at age 81.

I photographed the barn yesterday afternoon.

 

[presspass]

As always, thanks for sharing your wonderful images of life in a smaller community. The barn shot is a joy.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I made this photograph of my next-door neighbor's nativity scene earlier this evening. I recently moved into my grandmother's old house in the neighborhood where I grew up (my parents live just around the block from the house I live in now). This family has owned this house since my mother was a child; they're devout Catholics, and they put up this display every year.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A glowing lighted pig in a Santa suit. This has to be one of the funnier Christmas decorations that I have encountered. Bacon Claus shares the bench with a stoneware jug and a lighted cow holding a gift.

The house is on Tyrone Road, a couple blocks north of Sandpoint Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it as the daylight was fading away into night.

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Chris, are you sure that isn't a Holstein cow and not a polar bear?
Great pics, especially of the flag.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Chris, are you sure that isn't a Holstein cow and not a polar bear?
Great pics, especially of the flag.

You're right...I was looking at some other photos when I was typing and got them mixed up. This is definitely a cow!

 

[robert blu]

Lovely and funny Cgristmas decoration and beautiful light in the photo, Chris! You captured it very well, bravo!
robert

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This house has sat empty for a few years, but had been in fairly good condition until recently. The day before I photographed it, I noticed the "Meth Lab" graffiti and the broken windows in the door.

The house is on Bluffton Road, across the street from the Kroger store, in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it as the sun was setting behind me.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This has to be the biggest front yard Christmas display in Fort Wayne! There are so many inflatable Santas, snowmen, penguins, and reindeer in front of this house that I could not include them all in a single photograph.

This house is on Ardmore Avenue, south of Knoll Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They had a similarly gigantic display for Halloween! I photographed them earlier this evening.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

While driving through my neighborhood last night, I saw this window on a house on the street where I grew up. The sun had just set, leaving just a tiny and rapidly fading bit of light. The glowing, disembodied Santa Claus head in the window, surrounded by the lights from the Christmas tree on the other side of the curtains, looked like a ghostly and rather creepy figure watching over the front yard.

The house is on Woodheath Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Every year, Peter's Body Shop puts up this huge lighted Santa's Sleigh on the side of their building at the corner of Bluffton Road and Sandpoint Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The reindeers' legs and Santa's hand are animated. I photographed earlier this evening, just before the last light faded in the sky.

 

[NY_Dan]

Fantastic photos!

 

[robert blu]

What Dan says: fantastic
robert

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A lot of the houses in the working-class Belle Vista neighborhood have big Christmas displays every year. This one on Belle Vista Boulevard has a Nativty Scene in the front yard and a big plastic Santa and Sleigh on the roof.

Belle Vista is on the northern edge of Waynedale on the southwest side of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed this house earlier this afternoon.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Some of you may have seen this photo in the Christmas giveaway thread. Nikonosguy sent me a very cool Horizon 202 panoramic camera. This is the first photo I made with it. The house is in my neighborhood, a couple blocks north of my house.

The camera arrived Monday afternoon, close to 5pm. The light here is already fading fast by then this time of year, but I couldn't wait to try it, so I popped a roll of Delta 3200 in it to shoot this house.