The most enjoyable aspect, for me, of festivals like the Bridgeton Covered Bridge Festival in Indiana is seeing the wide variety of antique items offered by vendors.
Amish farmers and crafts people are common in this area. Horse drawn carriages are still in use by the Amish. The carriages pictured here are nearby an Amish vendor area, but since today is a Sunday, there are no Amish manning the booths. These carriages may or may not be offered for sale by the Amish, these may simply be antique horse drawn carriages displayed by others.
Old toys, tricycles and wagons are offered for sale.
And, of course, a wide selection of old home and farm products are in the vendors’ booths.
I like photographing these items; but I do not claim to be an expert at such photography.
The variations in colors, patinas, shapes and sizes of old, collectible, nostalgic items and the wording and logos on old signs are fun to inspect and to photograph.
Old, colorful bottles in different shapes and sizes have a magnetic effect upon me.
The photographs in this post are a few of the many possibilities for making interesting images of objects that one can find at the numerous covered bridge festivals in this area. A small, unobtrusive camera, such as a phone or point and shoot, might work better in this environment than a DSLR. The items in this post are photographed as found in the vendors’ displays.
That’s all for now,
Ken
I do love old things and your photos of the buggies brought back memories of going to visit my daughter when she was a student at Penn State University. On the way we would pass so many Amish farms and would see the buggies on the road.
Shutterpug, we followed behind one Amish buggy for a few minutes in Kentucky and saw many indications of horses having been on a number of roads there. In Indiana, I did not see any buggies on the road, but I did see one Amish man on horseback on one country road. Like you, I’ve always liked looking at old things, especially those that indicate how people lived well before our time; but sometimes, I see things in the antique displays that were still around or were contemporary to my youth and those always bring back childhood memories.