Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This window is on the side of an old garage next to a house on Rockhill Road in the West Central neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

The sign under the American flag says: "Always Kiss Me Goodnight."

I photographed it last week.
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[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Fog hovered over the ground at sunrise this morning in northern Indiana. I made this photograph of the pond at Hodell Acres, the WMCA summer camp on Elmhurst Drive in Fort Wayne.​

This small plot of forested land is located in the city, with the neighborhood where I grew up on the north side of it and several industrial facilities to the south.​

The pond was originally dug as the beginnings of a stone quarry that was never completed. It sits at the bottom of a deep hole with several trails cut into the steep sides leading down to the water. When I was a kid, neighborhood kids would explore the woods and fish in the pond, which only had tiny bluegill.​

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This building at the corner of Broadway and Stophlet Street in Fort Wayne is home to an antiques and used clothing store called "Little Shop of Laura's." I first photographed the bench in 2013, soon after Laura Hancock, the store's owner, painted it to look like the American flag.​

Laura later added the chalkboard, whose message changes every week or so. When I made this photograph last week, it said: "Make A Change."​

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This chair sat on the edge of the road next to a house on the southwest corner of Taylor Street and Nelson Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The chair is on Nelson Street, probably waiting to be picked up by the garbage men.​

I photographed the front of this house back in 2011.​

 

[dave lackey]

This building at the corner of Broadway and Stophlet Street in Fort Wayne is home to an antiques and used clothing store called "Little Shop of Laura's." I first photographed the bench in 2013, soon after Laura Hancock, the store's owner, painted it to look like the American flag.​

Laura later added the chalkboard, whose message changes every week or so. When I made this photograph last week, it said: "Make A Change."​

Enjoying this thread, Chris. The bench is cool! I will be painting a similar bench next week for the backyard but only red and black, not as bold or artistic as a fog bench.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Enjoying this thread, Chris. The bench is cool! I will be painting a similar bench next week for the backyard but only red and black, not as bold or artistic as a fog bench.

Thanks. The owner repainted it over the summer. It has been painted like this for a few yrs, but the old paint was wearing off, so she refreshed it.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This cinderblock garage stands behind a house on the southeast corner of Taylor Street and Nelson Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

The little round sign on the stair rail, which has the American flag and a picture of the Statue of Liberty printed on it, says: "God Bless America."​

I also photographed the house across the street on the same day, two weeks ago.
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[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here is #2 from the series of photographs that I made last Sunday of the fog at sunrise over a pond in my neighborhood in Fort Wayne.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

#3

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

#4 of my photographs of the Pond I photographed at sunrise last Sunday morning.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I have just added a new tutorial to my Photo Lessons website!

White Balance Demystified

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This place has been all over the news in Fort Wayne this week. A local man, outraged that Donald Trump is now President of the United States, has hanged Trump in effigy from a tall tree in his front yard!

The house is on Oakdale Drive on the south side of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The house's owner, Mike Cunningham, hanged Trump in effigy soon after the president's inauguration. The Trump effigy is holding the flag of the Soviet Union, symbolizing Trump's alleged ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin. Putin was a KGB officer during the Communist system's final years.​

Cunningham's house had been covered in anti-Trump signs during the election campaign, which were still there when I photographed the Trump effigy. His neighbors aren't happy about it, but it is constitutionally protected free speech.

Here's a crop of the image, showing that it is indeed Trump's face!​

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The last of the photos I made of the foggy morning over the pond in my neighborhood a couple weeks ago.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Wolf Lake Pub & Grub is a bar on US-33 in the small town of Wolf Lake, Indiana. The small brick building was originally built as a bank, though it has been a bar for decades.

 

[robert blu]

Love this project and the consistency in your visual style
robert

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Love this project and the consistency in your visual style
robert

Thanks, Robert. I have about 200 photos I have shot in the last 6 months and not gotten edited that I am working on, so there is much more to come!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Syracuse Cafe is a locally-owned restaurant on the southwest corner of Huntington Street (State Road 13) and Pearl Street, in the small town of Syracuse, Indiana.​

The handwritten sign on the front of the building says:​

"Spouse can’t cook? Don’t divorce. Eat here, its cheaper."​

 

[Darthfeeble]

While I really enjoy your documentary work, those foggy pond shots are really beautiful.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

While I really enjoy your documentary work, those foggy pond shots are really beautiful.

Thanks. I like to do landscapes too, to show that there are beautiful places here too. Years ago, when I was young and just getting started, a bunch of old photographers here, who traveled to other parts of the country to photograph, told me that there is nothing worth photographing in Indiana, especially the landscapes. I have been proving them wrong for 20 years!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A bumper sticker stuck on a traffic light control box on the southwest corner of Wells Street and Putnam Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

The sticker says: "I support the police, not criminals."​

This appeared when protests against the police were all over the news because of several highly publicized killings of African-Americans by police officers.​