This photograph of my son, MacKenzie Crawford, was made last month on the day that I made the photographs of the clothespins at an abandoned farmhouse near Fort Wayne. My son had stayed with me several days and he came along when I went out photographing. I made this quick portrait that afternoon while my girlfriend was photographing an old building.
I have also created a new project category on my main website for my portraits of MacKenzie. I have made hundreds of photographs of him over the years, and several of them have been on display in my Portraits category. I’ve decided to give him his own page, which I will be adding more to soon. I have many more photographs of him to scan and some new ones that I made on the 4th of July this year!
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I found this old Ford 4×4 pickup truck for sale along Knoll Road when I went to a garage sale nearby. I thought the Sharpie-markered inscription on the tailgate was funny, so I photographed it. Hillbilly Deluxe!
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Here’s the second photograph of the clothesline next to the abandoned farmhouse on Feighner Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. I wonder how long these clothespins have clung to that line?
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Another photograph from the abandoned farm on Feighner Road. This was made during my second visit to this place, last Friday. The old clothesline still stands, complete with ancient weathered wood clothespins. I made several photographs of them, of which this is the first.
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Low Bob’s Discount Tobacco Town is one of the most popular businesses in Waynedale. I made this photograph as the sun was setting after 9pm, as the only time I could get a clear view of the building was after closing time when there were no cars parked in front of it.
Notice the old toilet sitting next to the door! I have driven past this place more times than I can remember over the years and I had never noticed that toilet. I wonder how long it has been there?
These stores are found all over Indiana, but the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne has two of them within a half mile of each other on the same road! This is the one next to Papa Johns on Blufton Road. The other is located in the old Mister Coney restaurant a little further north of here.
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Here is the second photograph from the abandoned farm on Feighner Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. This ceramic owl stands on a post next to the house, from which it watches over the yard. Photographed in the late evening on May 29. I went back to this location over the weekend to photograph some more. Those photos, as well as the rest from last month, will be online soon.
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There is a really interesting abandoned farm on Feighner Road just north of Yoder Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. The farm has several barns and small sheds and a large farmhouse. I made several photographs there on an evening near sundown a couple weeks ago, and I plan to go back to photograph more.
This barn is interesting to me because of the wooden silo. Wooden silos are uncommon in northern Indiana. Most old silos I see here are concrete or steel, not wood.
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I made this quick portrait of my son, MacKenzie Crawford, last weekend when he was staying with me. I don’t usually talk about the equipment I use, as the cameras are just tools that I use, but this one was unusual and it illustrates the fact that good photographs can be made without having the latest equipment.
This photograph was made with a 50 year old Agfa Isolette II, a rather primitive camera that has no light meter (you guess exposure, or use a handheld meter) and you focus by guessing the distance to the subject and setting that distance on the lens!
The camera was a gift from a member of the Analogue Photography Users Group, a web forum for people who use film (preferably with old cameras). He restored several of these and gave them to fellow APUG members. I was lucky enough to be one of those who received one. Thanks John!
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This is one of my photographs from New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains are a small range in the middle of Santa Fe County between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. This photograph was made from the top of LaBajada Mesa southwest of the city of Santa Fe in February 2007. The Ortiz are about 20 miles southeast of here.
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted a photo of one of the two storefront churches in Waynedale. Here is the second one. This tiny place is the Harvest Time Worship Center, located on Lower Huntington Road in the little building that sits in front of the Movie Magic video rental store.
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