[Leica] 4D Truck Washout and Livestock Rest

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

On 8/30/2011 10:45 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Ken,
>
> When I lived in New Mexico, I drive back to Indiana several times to see my
> son, and I passed through Oklahoma each time. I never took many photos in
> OK, though. For some reason I just didn't spend much time there looking
> around the way I did when passing through Texas and New Mexico. This time, 
> I
> spent a lot of time photographing in Oklahoma and I found a lot of
> interesting places. I wish I'd had the money and time to spend a few weeks
> there. I have several others from OK to scan, plus all the stuff I shot in
> Texas and NM on this trip.
>
> I'd have asked the bikers if you could shoot some pics of their church, 
> they
> probably would have been cool with you photographing. Most bikers are nice
> guys if you go up to them and introduce yourself and tell them what you're
> working on. I think I passed by Elk City, I wish I'd known of the place, 
> I'd
> have gone to look for it myself!
>
>
Well, now I'm pumped to go find some more photos around here, if the 
temperature ever drops so that I don't need water bags draped around the 
hood.  I'm not bashful about approaching people, but I didn't know if 
some of these guys might be outlawing it or not.  Here is one I sort of 
like:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Shelter.jpg.html

It is from Kingfisher, Oklahoma, not that far from Oklahoma City (bonus: 
peeling paint).  I have a small portfolio from there, dating back from 
the LF film days.  This is a door on an old grain elevator.   The 
elevator has been inoperative for decades.  As the story was told to me, 
the owner decided that the grain business in Oklahoma was not that 
great, so he removed all the machinery, sent it to New York to be 
refurbished, and shipped it all to Cuba for a new grain operation.  In 
1956.  Evidently his business plan did not work out as expected.

Ken