It was our anniversary. 11 years. Gale and I often take little road trips around the back roads of Indiana. Why take an express way when back roads can get you there in twice the time? We headed down to Beanblossom in Brown County. A nothing much town, but it does have The Farmhouse. A restaurant and nursery and antique barn. Ripe for photographing.
A few photos taken at Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne. Gale got a new 84mm prime (maybe an 85) so I played around with her 17-40mm. Lots of leaves, slightly missed the real colour, but it was still very nice, if a bit freezing.
Today, I’m feeling more myself and so we took a quick trip to Hope, Indiana to visit a cemetery Gale had read about.
It was fine and I took a few snaps. On the way home we stopped at a cemetery in Flat Rock. I think it’s Morristown, but Gale would know better. This was actually more conducive to photography and the sun was playing hide and seek behind a cloud.
I took a lot of photos at both places. I wasn’t blown away by any of them at the time, but since I’m still on this split-tone kick, I thought I’d try it on some of them. I’m slightly happier in monochrome.
For the technically minded. Canon 6D with a 17-40mm and 50mm. Postworked in Lightroom 5.6.
A quick trip to Cave Hill for a few photos of the fall color, which wasn’t quite there yet.
Back in June of 2003 I placed two letterboxes in woods near Tunbridge Wells. One was quickly removed. I hid it behind a wall and think the land owner probably removed it.
The other one, however, remained in place. This trip I checked on it, as you may have read in a post from a few weeks back. After 12 years it’s not in great shape. The stamp and pad are going and the pages have several forms of fungus and mold. I had planned to transplant it to America, but having watched The Strain, I’m worried that I may introduce some pathogen to the colonies.
In order to preserve all the stamps I collected from people that found it, in creating this album.
