[Leica] Warren, Indiana #1

[Douglas Barry]

Americans might know this Chris, but the rest of the world doesn't. 
Basketball maybe for Indianans, but, for the rest of us outlanders, a large 
number of us can't relate. Is it a sport? You can't tackle, have to have an 
overactive pituitary gland, and no dress sense, so that rules it out for me. 
I'm with the Doc on this.

Douglas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Warren, Indiana #1


> There's no Padre, this is a protestant church. The church itself wasn't
> that important to me, the basketball hoops was. In Indiana, basketball is
> an all-consuming passion. Everyone plays it, and basketball hoops are
> everywhere. On garages, on barns, on the sides of buildings in small
> towns. If you've ever seen the movie "Hoosiers" you'l see what I'm talking
> about. If you ask people outside Indiana what they know of the state,
> they'll always mention our obsession with Basketball. They may also
> mention cornfields, the Indianapolis 500, and Gary (the city with a murder
> rate higher than New York!), but they always know Indiana means 
> basketball.
>
> I am going back next week to photograph inside some of the main street
> stores, which look like places frozen in time from the 1920s, and the
> owners. I was there too late yesterday; these small towns roll up their
> sidewalks at 5pm, and EVERYTHING closes down.
>
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
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> On 7/24/14 4:07 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>Hi Chris,
>> Here's an idea and maybe you can set it up for a Saturday or on a Sunday?
>>
>>Get the Padre out there with some kids shooting baskets or playing around!
>>Then you'd have a much better photo particularly if the Padre happened to
>>have on his white collar? Or other Padre type clothing?
>>
>>Your caption reads.
>>" Yesterday afternoon, I spent some time photographing in a couple of
>>small
>>towns in Huntington County, southwest of Fort Wayne. This is the parking
>>lot
>>behind the Warren Church of Christ in Warren, Indiana."
>>
>>Now if you didn't tell us that in your caption then it would be nothing
>>more
>>than a white brick wall with a basketball hoop!
>>BIG DEAL! As nothing visually indicates it is or was and maybe still is a
>>church?
>>
>>It would have been a far more effective photo if it showed something that
>>indicated it was a church going building. Would it not?
>>
>>A Cross or some other element of church? Rather than just a blank white
>>wall?
>>
>>just trying to be helpful as a photo editor?
>>
>>cheers,
>>Dr. ted
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
>>Of
>>Chris Crawford
>>Sent: July-24-14 12:45 PM
>>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>; Olympus Camera Discussion
>>Subject: [Leica] Warren, Indiana #1
>>
>>Yesterday afternoon, I spent some time photographing in a couple of small
>>towns in Huntington County, southwest of Fort Wayne. This is the parking
>>lot
>>behind the Warren Church of Christ in Warren, Indiana.
>>
>>http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1931
>>
>>-- 
>>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
>>Become a fan on Facebook
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