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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
A couple weeks ago, Catrina and I went to a garage sale on Knoll road in Allen County, just outside the city of Fort Wayne. Across the street from the garage sale was a farm with an old rusty 1940’s era Chevrolet truck sitting in a field. We drove over there intending to photograph the truck, but when we knocked on the door of the house, no one answered and the house looked empty. We decided to walk around and see if the barns behind the house looked interesting. I found this little shed behind the house.
I have several other photographs from this place that I will put online soon, and Catrina has several that she made here on her website too.
This is the little white church in the Prairie Grove Cemetery on Old Trail road in Waynedale. I made this photograph a couple weeks after vandals set the building on fire in the middle of the night. Most of the damage was done to the back of the building, which is no longer used.
See the rest of my photographs of the Prairie Grove Cemetery Chapel
This is the second photograph that I made at Baer Field Speedway on the evening of May 14. This is the entrance gate for the larger main track.
Baer Field Speedway is a stock-car track located near Waynedale on the southern edge of Fort Wayne International Airport (Formerly known as Baer Field). I had not been there since I was a little kid, and things had changed a bit. This smaller track had been added on the other side of the gravel parking lot from the main track.
I also photographed the main entrance to the original track, which I’ll add in a few days. These photographs were made as the sun was setting on a rainy, dreary spring day a couple weeks ago.
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