Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Darthfeeble]

I made this abstract photograph of the sky this morning in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Is this smoke from our fires out here in the west?

 

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Is this smoke from our fires out here in the west?

I think it was.

 

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This old theatre building is located on the corner of Clinton Street (State Road 111) and Fifth Street in the small town of Defiance, Ohio. It is now a non-denominational Christian church called The Gathering Place.


The marquee says: "We don't change God's Message. His message changes us." and "Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."


I photographed it last week.

 

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New York Central locomotives 4080 and 4068 sit outside the Medina Railroad Museum in the small town of Medina, New York. They are EMD E-8 diesel units, built in the early 1950s.



I spent most of last week in western New York and will post more photos of the small towns in the area over the next week or so. Medina is about 30 miles east of Niagara Falls.

 

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Another photo from the small town of Medina in western New York. This house on Main Street has an American flag made of red, white, and blue Christmas lights!

 

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This barn with a giant smiley face painted on the roof stands on the north side of State Road 31, west of Redman Road, in rural Monroe County, New York.


The door has a Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Sign and wooden cutout of a bird. The side of the barn has several old advertising signs, including signs for S&H Green Stamps, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, and Hercules Tires.

 

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Yesterday morning was very foggy. This is the first of four photographs that I made of this tree, which I had been wanting to photograph for a while.


The tree stands in the middle of a soybean field on the east side of Ardmore Avenue, between Nuttman Avenue and Covington Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Despite the rural appearance, this scene is in the city of Fort Wayne, though barely so. Ardmore Avenue forms the city boundary here, so the east side of the road is in the city, and the west side is not.

 

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The former Umber's Hardware store on Lower Huntington Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana.


The store, which opened in 1944 and moved to this building in 1955, closed at the beginning of 2020 after owner Dave Umber decided to retire. The locally owned store was one of Waynedale's oldest businesses. I photographed it last month.


The inside of the store looks so small with everything stripped out of it.

 

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Here is the second of the four photographs that I made Monday morning when it was very foggy here in Fort Wayne.

 

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Here is the third of the four landscape photographs I made in the heavy fog Monday morning.

 

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This is the last of four photographs that I made of this tree in Fort Wayne on Monday morning. This one was made about an hour after the first three, and the fog had actually gotten much thicker in that time!

 

[Bmoze]

This is really nice, Chris.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Back in August, I made this abstract photograph of the sky shortly before sunset.

 

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Medina Falls is a small waterfall on Oak Orchard Creek, just north of the Erie Canal in the small town of Medina, New York. The waterfall isn't very large, about 40 feet high, but it is an interesting sight because the heavily wooded area around it is actually in the middle of a town! Medina is in western New York, about 40 miles east of Niagara Falls.

 

[Rob-F]

This is the last of four photographs that I made of this tree in Fort Wayne on Monday morning. This one was made about an hour after the first three, and the fog had actually gotten much thicker in that time!

This one is so foggy, I wonder how you found your way back to it!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This house is on West Avenue, between James Street and Williams Street, in the small town of Medina, New York. The big American flag hanging from the porch is kept lighted at night by floodlamps. I photographed it a few weeks ago.

 

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HotBox Bistro is a tiny restaurant in an old enameled steel building tucked into a space next to a large office building on Erie Street in downtown Toledo, Ohio.


Toledo, on the western end of Lake Erie, is the largest city in northwest Ohio.

 

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This little park is on the north bank of the Erie Canal in the small town of Medina, New York. The young man on the bench was playing with his phone and eating lunch.


I made this photograph a few minutes after I photographed Medina Falls, a small waterfall visible from the canal walkway a few hundred feet west of the park.

 

[ChipMcD]

HotBox Bistro is a tiny restaurant in an old enameled steel building tucked into a space next to a large office building on Erie Street in downtown Toledo, Ohio.


Toledo, on the western end of Lake Erie, is the largest city in northwest Ohio.

Sort of a mini version of Nighthawks at the Diner. Nice shot.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This house is on State Street, between Chadwick Street and Elizabeth Street, in the small town of Medina, New York.