Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Ranchu]

Yeah, that's a cool picture. It's nice the way the trees in the distance make a gap, but the one branch reaches out and touches them. It gets cooler the more I look at it. I like the Jesus one too. He looks so judgmental over a chair and some books.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Yeah, that's a cool picture. It's nice the way the trees in the distance make a gap, but the one branch reaches out and touches them. It gets cooler the more I look at it. I like the Jesus one too. He looks so judgmental over a chair and some books.

Thanks, Ranchu. I thought the same thing about Jesus in the bookstore.

Here's another photograph that I made Thursday in Wells County.

This antique plow stands next to a barn at a farm on State Road 1, south of County Road 350S, in Wells County, Indiana.

 

[burancap]

Love that plow photograph, Chris!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here's the last of the three photographs that I made last Thursday evening. It is something of a milestone for me. It is the 2000th photograph to be added to my website, which covers twenty years of my work. The time has flown by so fast...

The house is on Sandhill Drive in Fort Wayne, about half a mile north of where I live.

 

[Michael Markey]

The plow photo is striking ...

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Earlier this evening, heavy fog blanketed the rural areas of northeast Indiana. I drove down to Wells County, south of Fort Wayne, and photographed the foggy landscape. This is the first of those photographs.

This field is on the south side of County Road 1000N, east of County Road 500E, east of Ossian in Wells County, Indiana.

I stopped here to photograph a barn that has a handpainted American flag. After photographing the barn, I photographed the foggy fields that surrounded the yard where the barn stands. This field is on the east side of the property with the patriotic barn.​

I'll post a photo of the barn once I finish editing it.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here is another photograph that I made in the fog yesterday evening down in rural Wells County, Indiana.

 

[Vince Lupo]

That's a really nice shot Chris -- nice colours (colour?), and it makes want to look at it for a good long while.

 

[farlymac]

I'll second that.

PF

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

That's a really nice shot Chris -- nice colours (colour?), and it makes want to look at it for a good long while.

Thanks Vince. Here's the third photo I made yesterday.

The fog actually persisted into this morning, and made its way into the city. I spent this morning photographing the fog in Fort Wayne, and will have a lot of photos to post once I finish editing them and the ones from yesterday!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here is the last of the four landscape photographs that I made in the heavy fog that descended over northeast Indiana Sunday evening.

 

[lynnb]

I like these colour pictures you've been posting Chris. Nice to see some more of your colour work. It's every bit as good as your bw. I agree about the plough - striking colour.

kind regards,

 

[Muggins]

I am beginning to think I like your photos more and more as there is less and less in them. That may sound strange, but the plough*, the two trees, the fog... all intrigue by their simplicity.

Adrian

*I'm English. I don't subscribe to Noah Webster.

 

[Vince Lupo]

I think the one difference with the previous 'fog' shots and that very last one is that the point of focus has changed. By that I mean that in the one shot that I liked, my eye goes to the background and the atmosphere that's created. With that last one, my eye goes boom right to the foreground, and to my pea-brain it kinda stays there. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you, it's just that (to me) you're directing my attention to something else, and not necessarily at the thing that I think you want me to notice. But, that last shot does have a 'depth' that the others don't have. So there are pluses and minuses (if I can use that term) to each approach. Hope that all makes sense.

I must say that I have a large amount of respect for your ability to still 'see' things that you are familiar with and have grown up with -- I find that if I'm surrounded by the familiar/the known, I tend to go into a state of 'sleep' and no longer see things. I need to go somewhere new and unfamiliar to 'wake' my senses and my eyes. Quite a challenge (at least to me) that you have successfully handled.

 

[FrankS]

I really like the fog shot in post 1027.

 

[Spavinaw]

Ah yes, Muggins--At my age almost everything reminds me of something else.
This is one of those random things that you never forget, but have no idea why in the world you remember them. In ninth grade English class I wrote "plough" in a sentence on the blackboard. Back at my seat one of the girls told me it was spelled "plow", but my teacher didn't say a word.
My 1938 dictionary spells it both ways. My computer spell checker puts a red line under plough. This is progress???

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The ice and snow often persist well into March in northern Indiana. This is the ice and snow that is finally melting from the flowerbed next to my driveway.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I am beginning to think I like your photos more and more as there is less and less in them. That may sound strange, but the plough*, the two trees, the fog... all intrigue by their simplicity.

Adrian

*I'm English. I don't subscribe to Noah Webster.

Thanks, Adrian. I've always liked simple, minimalist compositions. I think most of my best work is like that. I want each image to be a window to my world, showing one part of it at a time.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I think the one difference with the previous 'fog' shots and that very last one is that the point of focus has changed. By that I mean that in the one shot that I liked, my eye goes to the background and the atmosphere that's created. With that last one, my eye goes boom right to the foreground, and to my pea-brain it kinda stays there. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you, it's just that (to me) you're directing my attention to something else, and not necessarily at the thing that I think you want me to notice. But, that last shot does have a 'depth' that the others don't have. So there are pluses and minuses (if I can use that term) to each approach. Hope that all makes sense.

I must say that I have a large amount of respect for your ability to still 'see' things that you are familiar with and have grown up with -- I find that if I'm surrounded by the familiar/the known, I tend to go into a state of 'sleep' and no longer see things. I need to go somewhere new and unfamiliar to 'wake' my senses and my eyes. Quite a challenge (at least to me) that you have successfully handled.

They were all focused the same, about halfway between the foreground and infinity, with a small aperture to ensure everything is sharp. The light and fog, not my focusing, are responsible for the appearance of sharpness and softness across the photo!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Ah yes, Muggins--At my age almost everything reminds me of something else.
This is one of those random things that you never forget, but have no idea why in the world you remember them. In ninth grade English class I wrote "plough" in a sentence on the blackboard. Back at my seat one of the girls told me it was spelled "plow", but my teacher didn't say a word.
My 1938 dictionary spells it both ways. My computer spell checker puts a red line under plough. This is progress???

Most spell-check software is regionalized, so that there are different versions for widely spoken languages like English, Spanish, and Arabic to accommodate regional dialects of these big multinational languages.