These are photographs from the Dillon's block--the top left is the front of the buildings, the top right the old pool hall, and below that the back of Dillon's, all shot at one of my favorite times to shoot, between 10-11pm on a summer night. Hopefully soon I'll be able to post photographs I did during the early mornings.
The top two photographs are of the front windows at the Main Street Deli, a wonderful deli owned by my friend Elaine. We had the 'Open 24: Art at the Diner' show in the window on the left above, and at the same time the window on the right was full of photographs by a local portrait photographer. After both shows came down, a friend of mine remarked, 'I drove by the Deli and the windows looked so lonely.' It was about 10pm when I took those shots.
The two below are more in my continual and oddly relentless pursuit of Findlay at night/early morning. The alley shot, which I love for the bike way up there and the diffuse light, is from about 6am or so in the morning. The barbershop, which is on Sandusky, and which I've shot through their window late at night, is from about 5:15am.
  
These three photos above are the same window a year apart--from a house down in Union county that's peeling apart. On the left is a year ago--there's glass, you can see clean through the house to the side yard. In the two on the right, which I shot about two weeks ago, the glass is gone, but more intriguing is the blackness. I didn't think about it until I got the film back and then looked at my older shots. It's hard to see, but in the far right one, those light streaks are coming across what once was the second floor, which is falling into the first floor.
These 3 photos below are part of my 'DW Meditations Diner' menu series, which are part of the 'Open 24: Art at the Diner' show--they're on the front cover, along with the usual diner self promotion. I decided to just be sort of whimsical, since the poems, while realistic, have sort of an unreal edge to them. I had a grand time setting up still life shots--and was very excited to be doing photographs like I used to. And since the photos are 5x7s, I could scan some of the tinted ones to give an idea of what color does to a b&w shot.
The bottom left is a night shot of an apartment building on Front Street--someone tore down the building behind it, and left this wonderful set up. The lights are perfect. And I've been contemplating a cross hatch fllter, which would make the lights into cheesy looking stars. I had one years ago, and it could be a terrific effect, or, well, cheese. The photo on the right is another zoom lens special from an alley in downtown--the whole open door/window was too cool to pass up.
These are from some wanderings around town. The broken urn is on a street corner. I kept walking by it on my way downtown and kept thinking, I need to photograph it. It's right on the curb, so you can imagine the looks I got that day. The next 2 are from Christmas day when I decided, in the spirit of the day, to take some photographs at Darnell's Christmas tree lot. The street scene I had enlarged to a 12x16 giclee, so it looks very 1950's. I think the tree lot ones could make lovely holiday cards.
These are from a house down in Hardin County. Some interesting moments--the back door, seen below, has metal sheeting on the outside of it. Nice touch. There's the usual dumped furniture and curtains. Nice fall colors, though. All these vines are sporting dark red leaves, which in a couple small reprints, I managed to recreate the color with the oils and tint them in.
These are a couple of landscapes--for some reason, I've gotten into open landscapes--I tend to enlarge these to 12x18 or 11x14 and leave them untinted. I've done a couple as giclees, which give them a real dreamy sort of 1800's look.
These two still lifes were shot in the men's room window in the Jones Building. It really is a nice place to shoot window scenes--the light's good nearly all day, and the window's got character. The shell comes from the Blanchard River. I was walking home from the studio one day, and when I crossed the walking bridge in Civitan Park, I looked down and saw it sitting right at the edge of the water in the mud, so I went under the bridge, out onto the mud, and managed not to fall in, sink in, or any of that. The shot on the right comes from the movie Faraway So Close, directed by Wim Wenders. In the movie, when angels decide to leave heaven and become human, when they fall to earth, their wings, attached to a metal breastplate, fall off and they sell them in a shop that deals in those sorts of things. It's a great film. Anyway, the shell reminds me of those wings.
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