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Subject: Re: [OM] Canon 6D - First couple of weeks and first couple thousand pictures
From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:13:35 -0500
Every day on my way home the train runs through various parts of Gary, IN
and there are quite a few examples of very photogenic urban decay. There
are numerous examples downtown of Gary's former glory that I would love to
photograph, including buildings where my wife attended dances when she was
a girl, or hung out with friends, or went to see movies. The old Union
Station building still stands, although sans windows and mostly hidden now
by the toll road.

But I dare not venture anywhere close. It's not some irrational racial
thing - it's reality. People who live in those neighborhoods are frightened
to go out at times even in broad daylight. Many carry guns just for
protection.

Sucks, because at one point, Gary was a flourishing hotspot where all of
the Chicagoans would go on weekends to party. There are neighborhoods with
crumbling mansions. Charley Finley, of Oakland A's and orange baseball
fame, lived there for years while he was getting his insurance business
going. There were two Frank Lloyd Wright "System-built" homes there (only
one survives - the other burned down several years ago).

A guy I know did some photography inside an abandoned old church in Gary,
but hired an off-duty cop to watch his back while he worked.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Thanks for the update.  Since you have been quiet lately, I figured you
> were
> > upping the shutter count on the 6D.
>
> It's been a combination of a couple of things. We've been tied up
> getting our girls off to college. But while away, I did slam many
> hundreds of photos through the memory cards. I've processed and
> uploaded a couple hundred stock images this past week.
>
> I discovered an old abandoned service station in Springfield, MO, that
> was just screaming at me, so I stopped and got some pictures of it. It
> was a "watch your step, and watch your back" situation. I thought it
> was my imagination, but I thought I saw something move in the shadows.
> After a couple minutes, I finally got up close to the building and
> noticed the restroom door ajar. I took a peek in and there was drug
> paraphernalia everywhere and evidence of consumption in progress.
> Realizing that I had interrupted something, I figured it better to not
> go around to the back of the building and I moseyed back to the car,
> which Karen had locked herself into while I was venturing around with
> the camera. She let it be known that this and the previous abandoned
> business establishment that I had photographed a couple minutes
> earlier were beyond her comfort zone. WAY beyond her comfort zone.
>
> They were locations I would NOT go back to at night.
>
> After discovering the elicit activity, I QUICKLY got the rest of the
> pictures I needed as I felt that a return to get more was highly
> unlikely.
>
> Funny thing is that while I was photographing the old service station,
> a friend of ours (another Iowa minister dropping off his kid to
> college too) drove past and thought that it would make an interesting
> picture and noticed somebody photographing it--not realizing it was
> me. As we sat down for dinner, we were talking about what we did that
> afternoon and I showed him the pictures. He said that it was not a
> place HE would have gotten out of the car for. Probably sage advice.
>
> I'll upload those pictures for stock, tonight.
>
> AG Schnozz
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