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alternative visions by Christopher Crawford

I always enjoy working with alternative cameras and proceses. This page shows off some of those efforts. Some were made with a Diana, a plastic toy camera from the late 1960's and early 1970's. The Diana was made in Hong Kong and took 120 rollfilm. Most of them leak light, and all of them produce blurry images with dark corners.

Other images were made with pinhole cameras. A piece of thin metal with a tiny pin-hole punched in it will create an image, just like a lens. The image is generally soft, without fine details because there is no glass to focus the image.

57 Photographs

 

old white church in the prairie grove cemetery in the waynedale area of fort wayne, indiana photographed with a diana toy camera

 

grandpas kitchen and tall stool we sat on as children photographed with a diana toy camera

 

looping vines on the forest floor photographed with a diana toy camera

 

pinhole photograph of the old white church in the prairie grove cemetery in the waynedale area of fort wayne, indiana

 

richard youse's chairs under his tree, photographed with a pinhole camera

 

child with single use camera taken with diana toy camera. My son, MacKenzie Crawford taking my picture with a one time use camera

 

The Sink

 

The Sink

 

the sink

 

orchid faces polaroid

 

grandpas chairs polaroid

 

shovel abandoned house door polaroid

 

little forest small plants on dead log polaroid

 

Nikki

 

The Zent House belonged to my grandpa's neighbors and was abandoned and torn down in 2005. Photographed with a Diana toy camera in the late 1990's

 

The road to Galisteo from Santa Fe, New Mexico looking south toward Galisteo. Shot with a diana toy camera straight into the sun, producing severe lens flare

 

Christine sitting on her bed talking on the phone

 

Dreamy photograph of a lonely wooden pier with an old motel chair on the end of the pier looking out over the lake. old metal patio chair. The lake is goose lake in Whitley County, Indiana.

 

Dreamy photograph of a frozen puddle in an empty cornfield in Allen County, Indiana near the National Serv-All Landfill.

outhouse and old barn, noble county, indiana. photographed with a pinhole camera

 

light fixture on the old white church at the Prairie Grove Cemetery in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. toy diana camera

 

child with single use camera taken with diana toy camera. My son, MacKenzie Crawford taking my picture with a one time use camera

 

triangle of sticks in the woods. diana toy camera

 

richard youse is an old man who lived in an abandoned house. He is reading under a tree. photographed with a pinhole camera

 

Grandpa's Chairs

 

child with single use camera taken with diana toy camera. My son, MacKenzie Crawford taking my picture with a one time use camera

 

The Table

 

Super Soaker Squirt Guns

 

prairie grove church

 

amy

 

ladder and vines on backyard fort treehouse polaroid

 

little forest small plants on dead log polaroid

 

rick callender musician and artist polaroid

 

Pier with metal chair at Goose Lake, Whitley County, Indiana

 

Pier with metal chair at Goose Lake, Whitley County, Indiana

 

old weathered wood cross on top of the stone wall around the old spanish cemetery at Galisteo, New Mexico. Shot with a Diana toy camera

 

Anna's kitchen showing the old cast iron griddle we use to make pancakes on the stove. Shot with a diana toy camera

 

an old brick building in the small town of Monroeville, Indiana has a large American flag painted on the side of the building. The word United is painted above a park bench next to the flag. A row of arched windows lines the top floor of the old commercial building which houses a pizza parlor. Located on Indiana State Road 101, which is Monroeville's main street. This photo is crossprocessed.

 

 

 

Christopher Crawford
Fort Wayne, IN

chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com

 

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old rusty metal Chairs next to an old house. diana toy camera

 

grandpa's mailbox photographed with a diana toy camera. The two mailboxes are held to the posts by bungee cords because teenagers kept knocking them off with baseball bats.

 

lonely tree in a cornfield taken with a diana toy camera

 

trail in the woods on the campus of indiana university purdue university fort wayne (IPFW). diana toy camera

 

A young woman with long black hair and tattoos rises from Goose Lake in front of the old pier with an old metal chair on the end

 

Grandpa's Chairs

 

The Stove

 

The Sink

 

Super Soaker Squirt Guns

 

prairie grove church

 

raindrop the cat polaroid

 

forest floor fallen tree polaroid

 

Red metal chairs polaroid

 

self portrait brick factory delphos ohio polaroid

 

Nikki

 

color infrared photograph of th old abandoned adobe church in Lamy, New Mexico

 

the locked entrance gate to the old catholic cemetery in Galisteo, New Mexico. The gate is topped by a weathered wood crucifix cross. Shot with a Diana toy camera.

 

Dreamy photograph of a road to nowhere. A rutted driveway stretching off into the distance on a cloudy day in Allen County, Indiana

 

Dreamy photograph of an abandoned farmhouse in Pulaski County, Indiana under gathering storm clouds.