Some new photos from Fort Wayne

Sparrow said:
... ah, sorry .. I thought you'd gone with the D800 for some reason ... anyway, it's doing a grand job with the bright bits
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Oh, no I'm still with Canon. I've been using a Sekonic L-758DR meter that I got a couple months ago. Its the one you can calibrate to your camera's actual sensitivity and dynamic range. I love it; my images seem to need much less fine tuning in Photoshop.
 
Bille said:
You are using an external meter with the 5D II?

Edit: You just half-answered that question in the post above.
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Yep. I have never seen a built in meter in any digital camera that gave accurate exposures for the types of things I photograph. Every single photo I make with my 5DmkII is metered with an incident meter, and the exposures are consistently perfect. The built-in meter's display always says I am off by a stop or more, and it is always wrong.

Even if it were calibrated correctly, its still a reflected-light meter, with all the limitations and issues that brings.

I am not a photojournalist or sports photographer who has to work fast to get fleeting action; for them an imperfect exposure is not a big deal. For me, it ruins the shot. I have time to work with my subjects, so there's no excuse aside from laziness to not make sure the photo is perfect.
 
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A funny photo I made Saturday evening when my son and I went out to eat. Good thing we had a big hairy spider to catch that roach!
 
Your photo story of the Elmhurst school reminds me of where my Mom went to high school in Greensburg. I went there when it was the junior high, and it was later turned into an elementary school when the latest high school was built. Then where I went to high school became the junior high. Later on, the old-old high school was turned into senior living apartments, and one of my sisters now lives there.

The spider and roach photo is nice. Hope it didn't get you tossed from the place.

PF
 
farlymac said:
Your photo story of the Elmhurst school reminds me of where my Mom went to high school in Greensburg. I went there when it was the junior high, and it was later turned into an elementary school when the latest high school was built. Then where I went to high school became the junior high. Later on, the old-old high school was turned into senior living apartments, and one of my sisters now lives there.

The spider and roach photo is nice. Hope it didn't get you tossed from the place.

PF
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It was a Bob Evans restaurant. We didn't get thrown out, we eat there a couple times a week. The waitress was a new girl who didn't know us, and she was scared when she saw Hairy!
 
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This old building on Lower Huntington Road in Waynedale has had several businesses in it in the last 30 years. When I was very young, it was Northstar Satellite, a company that sold satellite dishes. They're still in business in another location. For a long time after that, it was a video rental store called Movie Magic.​

While I was photographing it yesterday afternoon, the owner told me that she is renovating the building in hopes of attracting a new tenant.​
 
Hello Chris, Just to let you know how much I've admired your photographs since I first came upon them years ago. The American flag is so striking (besides its many symbolic meanings) that it becomes a focal point for any picture in which it appears. I'm in Canada, BTW.
 
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Swings hanging from tree branches are a common sight in rural Indiana. Most of them are improvised swings made from old tires, but this tree has a pair of modern rubber swing seats, like those that you might find in a park or school playground.​

This is on Kress Road, between Branstrator Road and Ernst Road, in the southwestern corner of Allen County, Indiana. I photographed it yesterday afternoon.
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summar said:
Hello Chris, Just to let you know how much I've admired your photographs since I first came upon them years ago. The American flag is so striking (besides its many symbolic meanings) that it becomes a focal point for any picture in which it appears. I'm in Canada, BTW.
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Thanks, Summar. Here's a new one I shot Wednesday afternoon.

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The American flag dominates the front of this small house on Witchwood Drive in Waynedale, a working-class area in the southwest part of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Waynedale was an independent small town until 1957, when its people voted to join the city. Most people in Waynedale are very patriotic.
 
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A fat bunny carved from stone sits on a tiny replica of an old metal patio chair in a flowerbed behind a house on Pemberton Drive in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I stopped here yesterday afternoon to photograph several normal-sized metal motel chairs in the house's backyard. As I was finishing up, I spotted this little one!
 
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When I finished photographing the swings on this tree in rural Indiana last week, I decided to do a self-portrait of myself swinging on it. Didn't even need a phone or a selfie stick to do it either!
 
Living in NYC, those selfie sticks drive me crazy. As much as those wheeling suitcases down the street.
 
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This place, with the patriotic wooden bear holding up the American flag, is on the east side of North Anthony Boulevard, south of Lake Avenue, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

There were several of these wooden bears, sculpted from logs, standing on the porch. I think that they're Chainsaw Sculptures; wood sculptures carved with chainsaws instead of more traditional sculptor's tools!

I photographed it Wednesday afternoon.
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Last month, I photographed a giant three foot tall Garden Gnome at Walmart. I had never seen one so large before! Yesterday evening, I photographed one of them "in the wild."

This house in Fort Wayne, which is about a mile from the Walmart where I had first seen them, is surrounded by normal sized gnomes, as well as the one large one by the front steps.
 
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