Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: suburbs

Getting your hair done on the Michigan Road Kodak EasyShare Z730 Zoom 2008 This is my 1,000th post!

3 March 2015
Decline and growth, close to home on the Michigan Road

For a few years now, I’ve meant to photograph the portion of the Michigan Road nearest my home. For those of you familiar with northwest Indianapolis, it’s the stretch between about Kessler Boulevard and 62nd St. — and its best days are past. I want to record the gritty suburban decline. I can almost see the photos…

2 March 2015
58th & Victoria Nikon F3HP, 50mm f/2 AI Nikkor, Arista Premium 400 (exp. 11/2011) 2014

16 December 2014
Sculpted shrub Kodak Retina Reflex IV, Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenar 50mm f/2.8, Kodak Tri-X 400 2013

9 December 2014
Getting ready for winter, a photo essay on Fujifilm FP-3000B instant film

The last leaves fall the first of November, just in time for cold days and freezing nights. Let the calendar disagree with me, but I say this is where winter begins, bleak and down and lonely. Through October I spend every Saturday mowing up the trees’ prodigious leavings, just me and my old tractor. I cling to this…

24 November 2014
The ponder seat

I was reminded of this story from five years ago as I have been driving my old lawn tractor around the yard, picking up the fallen leaves. The tractor looks a little more beat up now, and comically its hood hinges both broke and are being held in place by two Vise Grips, but it…

24 October 2014