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Columbus, Indiana

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Photo Venture Camera Club went to Columbus, IN last Saturday to shoot architecture but it was raining.  Are cell phones waterproof?


We had met at The Commons, home of Chaos, a piece designed by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguel.  I didn’t get any shots of Chaos as a whole, there were too many interesting details.  You can see it at the link to The Commons above.  Given that it was raining, we stayed there for a couple hours which encouraged shooting details.


Including a boot that is part of it.


The water fountains are not part of it.


This hook isn’t either.


Still raining.


It did eventually clear up and we wandered around outside.


Nice interaction of water drops, granite and a leaf.


I wasn’t going to have time to get around to see the buildings designed by the likes of Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei and others.  With a population of just 39000, Columbus is ranked sixth in terms of architectural interest behind Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco and Washington.  Not bad, not bad at all.


So I just stayed in the neighborhood.


Shooting through a window can add interest.


Philip Roth wrote ‘Goodbye Columbus’.  Many photographers and other visitors say ‘Hello Columbus’.  Some of us will go back in a few weeks.

Off to shoot buffalo (or bison, whichever you prefer)

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Sally had learned of English’s Buffalo Farm west of Bainbridge IN and we went there this morning.  Arriving in the area before our appointment, we wandered around.  Here was a prototypic Indiana farm with a well kept barn and a basketball hoop.


We arrived at the buffalo farm right on time and went out to the pasture where the adults are kept.  We rode out with the owner on a Ranger vehicle.  This is an open vehicle that will seat about six or seven people.  It has neither sides nor roof and is excellent as a platform for photography.  We were warned to stay in the Ranger; buffalo are unpredictable and not our friends.  This is not a petting zoo.


This is the number one bull who weighs in at nearly a ton.  He can run at a speed up to 30 miles an hour and turn on a dime.  Very impressive.  We spent about half an hour in the pasture and then were on our way back to Bainbridge and lunch at the Bonton Cafe.  After lunch we stopped at a derelict house we have admired on other occasions.


I don’t know what it is about buildings in this kind of shape but they draw photographers more than buildings that might appear in House Beautiful.


Windows seem especially interesting.


Perhaps it is time to organize a field trip for our photography club designed around visiting abandoned buildings.