robert blu
quiet photographer
I like your photos very much, always. But that empty Drive-In Theater has a special beauty for me! Love it! Have a nice 2020 and keep doing this good work!
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Thanks, Robert. Happy New Year to you too
The C. W. Busby Building is a vacant storefront building on Main Street, next to the railroad tracks, in the small town of Antwerp, Ohio. It has a richly decorated facade for such a tiny building.
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Redwood Inn is an old neighborhood tavern on West Main Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The West Main Street area is a working class neighborhood just west of Fort Wayne's downtown.
Redwood Inn is right next to the old storefront on the corner of West Main and Osage Street that had long sat vacant.
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The Monroe Township District #8 Schoolhouse is located on State Road 101, about a mile north of the small town of Monroeville, Indiana. Built in 1885, the one-room brick school it is now a private residence.
A lot of old schoolhouses in rural Indiana have been converted into homes. I photographed this one last November.
froyd
Veteran
WOW Chris! What beautiful color!
froyd
Veteran
Chris- do you use a tilt/shift lens or do you adjust the vertical lines digitally? I like the dead-on angle you often employ. It has a documentary feel, it gives dignity to most subjects, and give the impression of "honesty", but the art comes in making it look so effortless.
Chriscrawfordphoto
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I do it in Lightroom. I could never afford a shift lens, they were expensive, and most of them do not allow much shift anyway.
All of my color work for the last two years has been done with Olympus Micro 4/3 cameras (OM-D E-M1 mark II and Pen-F), and Olympus does not even make a shift lens for that system (they did for the OM 35mm system, but I never used one because it was expensive and limited in the amount of shift it gave).
Mark A. Fisher
Well-known
Your work always brings me much joy...
robert blu
quiet photographer
The Monroe Township District #8 Schoolhouse is located on State Road 101, about a mile north of the small town of Monroeville, Indiana. Built in 1885, the one-room brick school it is now a private residence.
A lot of old schoolhouses in rural Indiana have been converted into homes. I photographed this one last November.
The colour is special! Love it!
It must have been cold...
Chriscrawfordphoto
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The C. Sullivan Building is a vacant storefront building on Main Street and Stone Street in the small town of Antwerp, Ohio. The gable stone says it was built in 1898 by J. Bauer.
Mr. Bauer also built the C. J. Schneider Building in Antwerp, which I posted a photograph of a few days ago. It is located on the other side of Main Street, about half a block north of the Sullivan Building.
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This Christmas star was mounted on top of a garage facing north on Fourth Street between Cass Street and Wells Street in Fort Wayne. It is behind an old house on Cass Street that has been divided into apartments. I photographed it a couple of days before Christmas last year.
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Scout is one of the two cats at Hyde Brothers Books in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She used to be really thin, though her long hair made her look fluffy. In the last year or so before I made this photograph of her, she began to gain weight and is now quite fat, just like the other cat who lives at the store.
Hyde Brothers is an incredible locally-owned used book store on Wells Street in Fort Wayne. As long as I can remember, they've always had at least one cat in residence.
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In November last year, these men were working on removing the old shingles from the roof an old house on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The man giving the thumbs-up saw me walking by with my camera and called out asking me to take a picture of them!
This house is on the east side of Wells Street between Third Street and Fourth Street. When I photographed it the first time, back in 2010, someone lived there and there was a sign with the Ten Commandments in the front window. The house, which was in poor condition, later sat vacant for a long time. A new owner is restoring the house, with plans to open a store it.
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Back in November, I made this photograph of Sherlock, one of the two fatcats that live at Hyde Brothers Books in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Sherlock spends all of his time lounging, and he gets annoyed when people pet him or take his picture!
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This house is on Mulberry Street in the small town of Churubusco, Indiana.
Hand-painted American flags made from pieces of wood are a popular decoration in Indiana. They're often displayed on fences or on garages.
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I found this sign on a restaurant's drive-through window amusing. A giant hand pointing down at the window, just in case the words "Drive-Thru" weren't obvious enough!
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This treehouse is in the backyard of a house on the corner of Main Street (US-33) and Liberty Street in the small town of Churubusco, Indiana.
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Dinamo Judo is a martial arts school on High Street in the small town of Hicksville, Ohio. The building is a former bank, built in a mid-twentieth century modernist style.
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This old, abandoned vending machine stands in front of a former storefront church on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It sold boxes of Hi-C fruit drink for 50 cents.
The church was called Living Faith Ministries. I photographed it last week.
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This building is on Cass Street, a block east of Wells Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The side of the building has handprints, hearts, and smiley faces painted on it, along with the slogan: "Don't Grow Weary Of Doing Good."
The building is home to Heart of The City Mission Foundation, a charity run by a local church. When I was younger, there was a pro-level photo lab called Unique Photo and a printing company called Precision Litho in the building. Unique, which was owned by Precision Litho, closed 20 years ago, and I still miss them. They were the best color film lab in the city, in my opinion.