Five Frames of Hidden Art from Indianapolis

I was in Indianapolis for a meeting in the summer of 2017 and got loose with my camera. Here are five frames of Hidden Art.

Monumental Reflections

That is the Indiana War Memorial reflecting in the glass of a building on Pennsylvania Street. The Indiana War Memorial was originally built to honor the Indiana veterans of World War I, but now houses a museum dedicated to the veterans of all U.S. wars.

View for Lunch

Inside the Eiteljorg Museum of Indians and Western Art is a cafe. I tarried there and had a brownie and coffee. Here is a shot through the window of a mother and son having a quick lunch on the patio.

Zen Garden

This looks like something you might see in a Japanese garden. Some interesting bowls, a wooden structure, dripping water, and a pool. All set for contemplation and deep thoughts. Actually this is a gold panning station outside the back of the Eiteljorg Museum.

Concrete Repetitions

The repeating forms of the concrete braces caught my eye.

Shadow Race

The eighth annual Indianapolis Criterium or Indy Crit was going on while I was wandering around downtown Indianapolis. The racers were going around and around a short course, flashing by like horizontal rainbows, chains purring, the air jumping aside as the peloton powered through. I took hundreds of pictures of multicolored jerseys and cornering cyclists. I was drunk on the color and pageantry. So it is weird that this is my favorite image: the shadows of the racing cyclists, rendered in black and white, no less.

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These photos were taken with a Canon 6D. I was using three prime lenses: 50mm f1.8, 35mm f2, and 100mm f2, all Canon. Monumental Reflection and Concrete Repetitions were taken with the 100mm, View for Lunch and Zen Garden with the 35mm, and Shadow Race with the 50mm. The photos were processed with Darktable, free and open source software available for Windoze, Mac, and Linux.