Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is lovely picture. Well done!

Thanks. That photo has been unexpectedly popular on social media, it got a ton of likes on my Facebook page. It does have a quiet beauty to it.

 

[robert blu]

I like very much your two white chairs: excellent composition and great tones. There is a sense of relax in this photo

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here is another photograph that I made on the foggy morning last month in rural Allen County, Indiana. This is number three of four.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I like very much your two white chairs: excellent composition and great tones. There is a sense of relax in this photo

Thanks, Robert. That is still one of the best photographs I have ever made, even though it was 21 years ago when I was a student. I have a large print of it on my wall.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another of my favorite photographs. This one was made back in 2001. I photographed it just as the sun was setting. There was so little light that it required a five minute exposure!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

My grandfather, John Westerfield, used to own a cottage on Goose Lake in Whitley County, Indiana. This pier belonged to his neighbor, who kept this chair hanging from the posts of the pier to keep it from floating off when the lake would flood.

I made this photograph back in 2002, right before my grandma sold their cottage. Grandpa had died in 1999, and she had never wanted the lake house. He bought it because he liked to go fishing.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Another of my favorite photographs. This one was made back in 2001. I photographed it just as the sun was setting. There was so little light that it required a five minute exposure!

Love this Chris and I really enjoy this thread. Inspiring.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Love this Chris and I really enjoy this thread. Inspiring.

Thanks. That photo is always going to be one of my favorites. I used to have a large print of it on the wall, but I donated it to a charity auction about 5 or 6 years ago. I need to get a frame and hang a new one!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This bicycle was chained to a bike rack in front of The Big Eyed Fish, a restaurant on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A number of bike racks like this one have been installed along Wells Street in recent years as part of the effort to rejuvenate the neighborhood.

The Pantry, one of Fort Wayne's rougher bars, (lots of stabbings and a few shootings over the years) is visible across the street.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Sneaky, the cat I rescued from neglectful neighbors who were letting him starve, looking cute outside my house.


You can see more photos of him and read his story here:


https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168651

 

[chipgreenberg]

Great tones and textures Chris!

Another of my favorite photographs. This one was made back in 2001. I photographed it just as the sun was setting. There was so little light that it required a five minute exposure!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This garage stands behind an old house on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The hoop is missing from the basketball backboard above the door.


Nine years earlier, I photographed a porch swing on the front of the house.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A woman kayaking on the Saint Marys River at Promenade Park in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. I made this photograph last week.



Promenade Park opened in the summer of 2019 on the banks of the Saint Marys River, just west of Headwaters Park, as part of Fort Wayne's efforts to develop the areas around the three rivers that converge in the city. The Saint Marys River and Saint Joseph River come together on the east side of downtown to form the Maumee River, which empties into Lake Erie at Toledo, Ohio.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Kayaks for rent at Promenade Park in downtown Fort Wayne. This is where the woman in my previous post got her kayak. They're hanging from the bottom of the Tree Canopy Trail, a winding footbridge through the trees on the north bank of the river.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A door on the back of an old brick house on the west side of Cass Street, just south of Fourth Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.


The house has been subdivided into apartments, like many old houses in Fort Wayne’s poorer neighborhoods.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Last week, I photographed this fireworks store in the small town of New Haven, Indiana. Since fireworks are a popular way to celebrate American Independence Day, these types of stores always have big American flags and other patriotic signs. It was raining when I was photographing it.

New Haven was originally a few miles east of Fort Wayne; but over the years, New Haven expanded to the west and Fort Wayne expanded to the east, so now they share a common border.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is the first of eight abstract photographs that I made of the sky over my neighborhood in Fort Wayne on the morning of August 6, 2019.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I made this photograph of the sky shortly before sunset yesterday evening.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This little used car lot is on West Main Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It has one of the more unusual names that I have seen for a car dealer: Surreal Automotive.

Like many car dealers, this one has an American flag on display; in this case, a hand-painted pallet flag.

I photographed it Monday afternoon.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

To my fellow Americans, Happy Thanksgiving!

I photographed this house a couple days ago. It is on the corner of West Main Street and Mechanic Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The West Main Street area is an old working class neighborhood just west of downtown.