Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A great photo opportunity, which you used well. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 11 May 2018, at 09:16, Christopher Crawford <chris at > chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > > Some of you will remember the photos I posted a few yrs ago of the General > Electric factory complex in Fort Wayne that was shut down at the beginning > of 2015. They were all shot from the street, because GE wouldn?t let anyone > inside the fence to photograph. > > Last year, the city announced that they had found a developer to turn the > sprawling 100 year old complex and its many buildings into apartments and > retail spaces, with the development to be called Electric Works. Last > month, > the developers invited a small group of photographers to go inside some of > the buildings to photograph, and I was one of them! > > This was personally important to me, beyond simply wanting to photograph > the > historic buildings for my documentary projects. My great-grandfather, > Raymond Estes, and three of his sons all worked here decades ago. At one > time, there were 25,000 workers in these buildings! When GE closed down the > last of their operations in January, 2015 there were fewer than 100 > employees left. Most of the buildings had been abandoned twenty years > earlier. > > I finally got my photos edited and posted on my website. > > http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=110 > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Like My Work on Facebook > > > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ >