Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 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 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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information