10 Responses to “Indiana Scenes”

1. #1 |  Dedman |  January 3rd, 2004 at 10:33 am

   You’re not even charging 39 cents to Supersize That?

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2. #2 |  Coll Doll |  January 3rd, 2004 at 10:33 am

   This picture reminds me of my college years in Rensselaer, IN. Can anyone better explain why Indiana won’t sell alcohol on Sundays? Religious reasons I presume?

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3. #3 |  Missy |  January 3rd, 2004 at 10:55 am

   In Ohio, where I grew up, I’ve recently been fascinated by the abundance of dilapidated barns (the kind that serve no useful purpose because they are less than skeletal remains but yet still stand for some reason) and would love to start a photography project about it….except given that many barns sit way out in the middle of fields, without fancy lenses I fear a shotgun or two taken to my ass should I go traipsing on someone’s land.

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4. #4 |  Radley Balko |  January 3rd, 2004 at 11:42 am

   Missy –

   Freaky. I too…

   A) Share the fascination with delapidated barns (as you’ll see from future photos). But if you’ll peer into them, you’ll find many that appear beyond use are, in fact, still used to house farm equipment. Guess building code enforcement in the Midwest isn’t quite what it is on the East Coast.

   B) Think someone should start a photo collection of them.

   C) Was afraid of getting shot at it while taking pictures back home.

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5. #5 |  Joe Sims |  January 3rd, 2004 at 3:14 pm

   Radley,

   Just tell any pissed-off farmers that you’re not tresspassing, you’re a location scout for the next John Mellencamp video.

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6. #6 |  Missy |  January 3rd, 2004 at 6:32 pm

   Because I sometimes get nostalgic for where I grew up….

   (Even though I don’t have a car in DC) I miss the “traffic jams” in Ohio caused by extremely large farm equipment being driven at 10 mph along a patch of a county road….or Amish buggies (which, from what I understand, are not required to have reflective attachments for their own safety at nightime). Also, I miss driving at night in the country–that’s what we say, “in the country”, as opposed to “in town”–when it is so dark it’s almost creepy (at least now it is, to this urbanite).

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7. #7 |  Eric the .5b |  January 3rd, 2004 at 7:53 pm

   Nice picture, but the choice of B&W for it makes it strike me as incredibly freaking dreary.

   Ahem. I’ll blame the last few warm, overcast, but not rainy days for that. (Thank goodness this is Texas and that’ll change, soon enough, as it does for pretty much any weather condition…)

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8. #8 |  Anonymous |  January 3rd, 2004 at 9:58 pm

   The most interesting dilapidated barns are the ones just on the edge of some raw, new suburb that’s grown out to it. You know they’re going to knock the thing down at some point but it’s still there, while the corn field is turned into McMansions or another Taco Bell.

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9. #9 |  A.L. |  January 3rd, 2004 at 10:38 pm

   Nice. Did you get a digital camera for Christmas?

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10. #10 |  wunder |  January 4th, 2004 at 6:00 pm

    look in your local bookstore. dilabidated barns are, along with lighthouses, quite often the object of fascination by photographers.

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