Some new photos from Fort Wayne

lynnb said:
always a pleasure to come back to this thread and see what you've been up to Chris. I love those two pictures of the swing on the porch, and the 2am photos, in particular.
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Thanks, Lynn. I like to return to the same places to see changes over time. The 2am ones were just a spur of the moment thing; I saw the fog and grabbed a camera and walked outside. They were just a short walk from my front door!
 
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Here is the last of the photos I made a couple weeks ago at the old suspension bridge over the Saint Mary's River at Foster Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is a view from halfway up the stairs that lead from the bridge up to the sidewalk along Bluffton Road. The street level is about the same elevation as the top of the bridge's latticed steel towers! I am looking east, back toward the park.
The graffiti on the towers has been there forever. I remembered seeing "Chris" written at the top of this tower the last time I visited the bridge, 15 years before I made this photograph. I am not the Chris whose name adorns the tower, whose top is 20 feet above the bridge deck. I'd end up killing myself if I tried to climb up there!​
The bridge was built around 1920. The narrow walkway is held up by steel cables suspended from the towers, and it bounces and sways when you walk across it! When I was a kid, we would jump on the "Swinging Bridge" to make it bounce more. The bridge is now over 90 years old, so that is probably ill advised today.​
 
We've got a swinging bridge just up the road in Buchanan, VA, Chris. One doesn't have to jump around to get it moving. Makes it kind of hard to get a shot when you're in the middle.

The graphic look of these shots is great.

PF
 
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Yesterday afternoon, I photographed this house on Rudisill Boulevard in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I drive past it every day when I take my son to school, and kept expecting Santa's sleigh to disappear after Christmas, but it is still there more than a month after the holiday!
 
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This old door has been recycled as a gate in the fence surrounding one of the rental garden plots at the Fort Wayne Parks Department Community Gardens. I photographed it last month. A scarecrow wearing a long white dress is visible through the window!
 
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I photographed these bright red chairs yesterday afternoon. They're just down the street from the snowman that I posted a photograph of earlier. I liked the contrast between the saturated red of the adirondack chairs and the bright white snow.
 
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Here is another photograph that I made in Waynedale yesterday afternoon. Waynedale is an area in Fort Wayne that was once an independent small town. It has been part of Fort Wayne for over 50 years now, but still looks and feels like a small town.
 
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I've seen a lot of houses at the beginning of 2015 that still have 2014 Christmas decorations up long after the holiday. This house is on Broadway, a working class area in Fort Wayne, Indiana.​
The old woman who lives here told me that she has the "God Bless America" sign up because her son is a Vietnam veteran, and that she has worked at the Wendy's restaurant down the street from her house for 18 years.​
I photographed this same house in 2012, when it had several small American flags stuck in flower pots hanging from the awning.​

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This Airstream camping trailer sits in deep snow next to the long-vacant Carolya Interiors building on Sandpoint Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was parked there just a few days before I photographed it. sides of the camper are covered in advertisements for several campgrounds in northern Indiana.

I photographed it yesterday afternoon.
 
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This image, made at sunset Thursday evening, is the third photograph that I have made of this place, where a Family Dollar store is being built on the east side of Bluffton Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The daylight was almost entirely gone, but the steel frame of the new building glowed in the last bit of sunlight.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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This Airstream camping trailer sits in deep snow next to the long-vacant Carolya Interiors building on Sandpoint Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was parked there just a few days before I photographed it. sides of the camper are covered in advertisements for several campgrounds in northern Indiana.

I photographed it yesterday afternoon.
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Have you tried a b+w version of this?
 
Glad you are posting these shots of fort wayne. I can cross it out of my possible destinations:)
Really, these are very static. Also, are there any people living in fort wayne (besides you, of course)?
Incredible.
 
Pherdinand said:
Glad you are posting these shots of fort wayne. I can cross it out of my possible destinations:)
Really, these are very static. Also, are there any people living in fort wayne (besides you, of course)?
Incredible.
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Historians study a culture by the artifacts it leaves behind.
 
FrankS said:
Have you tried a b+w version of this?
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I chose color when I shot it, because it is how I wanted it portrayed. Because I make the color/BW decision when I shoot my photos, and choose to the equipment I use based on that decision (I shoot color digitally, BW with film), I rarely ever like the result of converting a color photo to BW, since most of those color photos were ones I didn't want to be BW in the first place.
 
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I made this portrait of Betty Fishman outside Crestwoods Gallery in Roanoke, Indiana. Betty was there for the opening of an exhibit featuring her work and that of her friend and fellow artist Sue McCullough, "90 Years Young: Betty Fishman & Sue McCullough."

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Betty is not just an artist. For many years, she nurtured the local art community as the executive director of Artlink, a non-profit gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Betty helped jump-start the careers of many, many young artists in northeast Indiana. I was one of those young artists who had their first exhibits at Artlink, and who had the benefit of Betty's advice, encouragement, and support. She retired from Artlink in 2005, but continues to create new work today, at age 90!​
 
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