Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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Abstract image of the sky at dusk last Friday evening.
 
Larry Cloetta said:
Just like the difference between old cameras and new cameras, then.
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Yep! And damn near every other thing manufactured today.

When I was a kid, my parents bought me lots of toy cars and trucks. They were all made of metal. When my own son was that age, all the toy trucks were flimsy plastic, or they were metal but with a lot more plastic parts. I gave him my old toys; they're still in great condition today35 years after my parents bought them for me. I can't imagine anything made today l lasting long enough for today's kids to give to their own children.
 
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My father has always loved working on cars, and he has a huge collection of tools. This is the top drawer of his old tool cabinet. Some of the screwdrivers in there are older than I am, and still in usable condition. They don't make anything to last like that anymore!
 
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I've been photographing this house since Donald Trump became president last year. The guy who lives here HATES Trump. He now has the president wearing a striped prison uniform and shackles on display in front of his house in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Every window on the house has a "F--k Trump" sign, and the banner says: "Trump is a disgrace to America and makes me ashamed I ever served." The owner is an Army veteran. This is the same guy who hanged trump in effigy from a tree in the front yard if his house right after Trump was inaugurated.
 
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You don't see as many houses decorated for Easter as you do for Christmas and Halloween. This house with the Easter Bunny on one of the doors, is in the Wells Street area of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The house has been subdivided into small apartments, like many large houses in Fort Wayne's older, poorer neighborhoods.
 
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This pile of wood and debris is from the demolition of the abandoned house at a farm on the southwest corner of Lower Huntington Road and Coverdale Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana.

There was graffiti in several places in the house and on the barns behind it. This door has a heart, and the word "Wen," which I assume is "When" misspelled.

I have photographed the house, the barns, and the long driveway leading back through the fields to them many times over the last fifteen years. The house was in the process of being demolished when I made this photograph on December 2, 2017.
 
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This chair has an emoji face with just eyes on its backrest. The mouth has fallen off, and is on the ground next to the chair!

It sits in front of the Fort Wayne Fire Department's Station #10 at the corner of Anthony Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on the northeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The chair has had an interesting history. I photographed it the first time back in 2010, when it had a happy face painted on it. One of the firemen who worked there at the time told me that one of the men had painted the face on the yellow chair.

In 2011, the chair was painted over with a dull flat brown paint, with no face. It stayed that way until fall of 2017, when it went back to yellow, with a frowning face wearing glasses! Since then, it has periodically changed, each time with a different Emoji face.

I made this photograph on February 13, 2018.
 
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Scout is one of the two cats in residence at Hyde Brothers Books on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She is looking at me from inside the store's front display window, which is decorated for Saint Patricks's Day.

This is the first of two photographs that I made of her that day while she was lounging in the store's front window.
 
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Another photo of the cat in the bookstore window. After I made the first photo of her, she began playing with one of the rubber snakes that were part of the store's Saint Patrick's Day display.
 
had to giggle... I guess it shows abit of my mind's thinking
saw the Trump House and then the Bunny
and thought 'Perfect' ... Trump and a Playboy Bunny

Thankfully You brought me back to reality with the 'Easter Bunny ' ;)

Loved your Papa's tool kit...Wonderful array of colors
 
helenhill said:
had to giggle... I guess it shows abit of my mind's thinking
saw the Trump House and then the Bunny
and thought 'Perfect' ... Trump and a Playboy Bunny

Thankfully You brought me back to reality with the 'Easter Bunny ' ;)

Loved your Papa's tool kit...Wonderful array of colors
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Thanks, Helen. The 2016 election and Trump's presidency have been a godsend for a documentary photographer like me. Whatever you think of Trump, the reactions people have had to him have been great subject matter!

I liked the colors and variety of interesting things in the tool drawer, too. I have a couple more photos of my dad's tools to post soon. He has a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu convertible in his garage, rusting away. He bought it new for $3500! He was still driving it in the early 80s when I was little but it was badly rusted by then. I have a photo of it, too.
 
Are all of these latest photos your new Olympus? If so, I see no change in your images and that is a good thing.
 
jsrockit said:
Are all of these latest photos your new Olympus? If so, I see no change in your images and that is a good thing.
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Some are, some are from my old Canon 5DmkII. I still have hundreds of images from the old camera to finish editing and get added to my website, so I'm slowly working through them while doing new stuff too.

The ones on this page of this thread done with the Olympus were:

The cat in the bookstore window

Jailbird Trump

Easter Bunny Door

My Dad's Tools
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Some are, some are from my old Canon 5DmkII. I still have hundreds of images from the old camera to finish editing and get added to my website, so I'm slowly working through them while doing new stuff too.

The ones on this page of this thread done with the Olympus were:

The cat in the bookstore window

Jailbird Trump

Easter Bunny Door

My Dad's Tools
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Well, the switch seems transparent and I'm happy to see you have something that keeps you going. I can certainly understand the backlog...
 
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