A summer's night on the quadrangle

I took my Access Arts photography class out for a night photo outing last week, wandering around downtown and the MU campus.  A swelteringly hot night, as seems to be the pattern right now in Missouri, but we found a few interesting things to photograph.  This is an image of the MU quadrangle, bathed in the pink, sodium vapor light that is now the ubiquitous color temperature for most night photography.

Concord Church of Christ, Macon County

A beautifully painted wall lined with wooden chairs in Concord Church of Christ, rural Macon county.  I don't think this particular hue of green paint exists anymore.  Or perhaps it has lost its cachet.  This is another image in the Missouri Rural Church series.

St. Raphael Catholic Church, Chariton County

Late afternoon sun on St. Raphael Catholic Church, near Indian Grove in Chariton County.  This is one of the images in my continuing Missouri Rural Church project, an effort to photographically document the rural churches of central and northern Missouri.

A screen door in Dewitt

The title of the post tells it all...or most of it.  I found this advertisement painted on the screen door of an old general store in Dewitt, Missouri, just north of the Missouri River.  At the time I was there, none of the storefronts downtown were in business anymore, and the place had the lonely, alluring feel of an abandoned ghost town somewhere in the American West.  While photographing, a woman drove up and told me some of the history of the town, including a massacre of Mormons that took place on a hill just outside of town.  I didn't go look at the place that she mentioned, but I did stay long enough to photograph an old gas station and a billboard.  Then I continued along 24 highway.

Door Opener, Business Loop, Columbia

Another hidden detail found during this morning's shoot on the business loop.

Mystery on the Loop

I got up early this morning to photograph on Columbia's old business loop, before traffic got heavy.  I'm particularly interested in a block of buildings just west of Rangeline.  Clover's Market used to anchor the west end of this strip of businesses, in a now-abandoned building.  While trying to photograph some details, I found this graphic of a native American, in between the windows of a bar.  What it is or why it is there, I do not know.