This is my girlfriend, Sara. Isn’t she beautiful?
June 24, 2009
June 23, 2009
June 10, 2009
May 27, 2009
The Office
The Office Tavern on Brooklyn Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I used to think this place had a funny name. Men could tell their wives, “I’ll be late at the office tonight” and they wouldn’t be lying, even though they would not be working! I’ve never actually been inside. I don’t drink, so bars don’t have much to offer me, but I find the place’s name amusing.
May 22, 2009
My Son 3-19-09 II
This is actually the first photograph I made of my son, MacKenzie, in the late afternoon on March 19, but I put the second one online first, in my last post. He and I were getting cold outside when we did this one, so we moved inside to do the one in my previous post.
March 29, 2009
My Son 3-19-09
I made this photograph of my son on a cold afternoon a couple of weeks ago while I was testing a lens that I had sent off for repair because it wasn’t focusing accurately. He was pretty tired of being my test guinea pig by the time I made this image at the end of the roll.
March 22, 2009
Broken Heart
I am currently working on my masters degree, so I spend a few days a week on the campus of Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Last Wednesday, I noticed hearts drawn with sidewalk chalk all over the walkways on the campus. All of the walkways, or so it seemed! I stopped to photograph this line of hearts because it had the only broken heart I saw. The hearts turned out to be a visual lead to written anti-abortion messages chalked on the walks and plazas at various places around the campus.
March 15, 2009
Sign Atop the GE Factory
This is the famous sign atop one of the old General Electric factory buildings on the huge GE complex between Broadway and Fairfield Avenue in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. A lot of people in my grandma Rosa Eastes’ family worked there, including her father, at least two of her brothers, and the wife of one of her brothers. Thousands of Fort Wayne residents worked at this complex and another GE facility on Taylor Street in the early 20th century. The Taylor Street factory is now operated by another company, and a lot of the jobs at the Broadway complex have been shipped to Mexico. One of the buildings here was demolished a few years ago, though the rest still operate.
The sign is a famous landmark in Fort Wayne. I had to photograph it while it is still here. Before posting this photograph, I found out that GE has a similar, but larger, sign atop one of their factories in Schenectady, New York, the hometown of General Electric.
March 13, 2009
Mexico, Indiana
This little house is located on Mexico Road, the main street of the little town of Mexico, Indiana. It looked a little out of place among the much larger storefront buildings that line the road. This photograph was made during my first visit to the town, on January 11.
March 12, 2009
Elwood’s Appliances in Waynedale
The GE starburst sign at Elwood’s Appliances in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne is a famous landmark. At night, little lightbulbs on the starburst light up and move outward while the GE logo in the center flashes on and off. I think that this sign has been there since the 1950’s, but I am not sure. I promised the owner of the store a print, so I’ll ask him when I give it to him.
Elwoods is one of a tiny handful of locally owned appliance stores left in Fort Wayne. Waynedale actually has another locally owned appliance store, Sandpoint TV Service, down the street from Elwoods on Lower Huntington Road.
