Lost in the Midwest: Neat Place

                          Coolville, Ohio

Back Home in Indiana: Get Us Out!

                                                     Bedford, Indiana.

Moning Morning Coffee: Take 9 - Style

 

Reality:

Grafton, the first large town west of Winchester, Virginia, is the countyseat of Taylor County.  With a population of less than 6,000, Grafton is now among the most economically and socially depressed places in West Virginia.  Run-down boarded-up buildings and houses line the streets of what was once a bustling B&O Railroad town.  At one time about sixty percent of the people worked for the railroad.  Now the railroad is gone and nothing has come along to replace it.  Doesn't look like any thing will.

Mood:

The mood in a color photograph is often energetic and contemporary. While the mood in a black-and-white photograph is often serious and classic. The choice between a black-and-white or color photograph can be a choice of mood.

If you wish to focus on the mood and timelessness of a location, then black-and-white might be might be a better choice. 

Style:

All photographers have their own style for taking photographs. The conditions that you use to take photographs and the type of photographs you take determine which style you prefer.

Kesser's

                                                       Richmond, Indiana.

IOOF

                                                       Richmond, Indiana.

Please Take a Ticket

                                                       Richmond, Indiana

PS Drugs

                                                      Richmond, Indiana.

Monday Morning Coffee: Take 8 - Look Up / Look Down

      Look up, look down
Look all around

       Look high, look low.

        How low can you go?

                                             Kathy Bell

 

                                                     Richmond, Indiana

                                                      Richmond, Indiana

Form / Function

                                                               Rockport, Maine.

Closed 24/7

                         Pie Town, New Mexico

Back Home in Indiana: Crosses Along the Road

                                                        Winchester, Indiana

Monday Morning Coffee: Take 7 - Outside In

                                                   Everyone and everything that shows up in our

                                                   photographs is a reflection of something that is

                                                   happening inside of us.
                                                                                                    


                                                         What does your world look like?  Go to some place that holds

                                                          a particular mood for you.  Spend time to find just the right

                                                          place for a particular image.

                                                          Reflect - within the image - your experience.  Raise questions 

                                                          and don't provide obvious answers.

 

I Am The Best Artist

                                                       New York City, NY.

Along the Tracks: Storage

                      Richmond, Indiana

Once the home of a lawn mower industry, now used for storage.  (click on image to enlarge)

Power Window

                                                     Farmland, Indiana

Indiana Winter

Yesterday afternoon - Feb.6 - walked out the back door with a cup of coffee and found this at the edge of the sidewalk.  Come on - this is early February. This is Indiana. This can't be happening. We usually have a dark gray sky and some snow with a promise of more snow.  What we have been having is 50 degree temps, a lot of sunshine and a dark blue sky. No problem - just not the usual.  May it continue.  (click on image to enlarge)

Monday Morning Coffee: Take 6 - Inside Out

                                                
                                                           To be able to capture the fact that everything around us,    
                                                           dead or alive, mysteriously takes on many variations.
                                                           A seemingly dead  object comes to life through light or
                                                           by its surroundings.
                                                                                                                            Josef Sudek

                                                                                      Rockport, Maine

 Josef Sudek found his subjects in his domestic surroundings and in particular in the material quality of light as it penetrated windows. The relationship between inside and outside. Concentrating on private subjects - the window of his studio, the garden outside, a simple still life within.

Consider photographing from the inside out.

Back Home in Indiana: Jesus Healing Ministry Inc.

                           Richmond, Indiana

Back Home in Indiana: Hoagy

                                                       Richmond, Indiana.