Hoops12751 wrote:
I am headed back to Evansville in July for a reunion (haven't been back in over 25 years) and I am looking for the best places - iconic or otherwise - to shoot.
I'm another Evansville resident. I think a previous responder covered many of the good spots. Sometime back, another "Hog" posted a link to a very cool website:
https://www.shothotspot.com/Type in Evansville Indiana, and it'll come up with places and ideas to shoot, including #1: Graffiti Train Yard
Downtown near the Riverfront on 1st Street is the Reitz Home, but no photos allowed inside. Still, if you walk along the street a few blocks, there are many dozens of gorgeous Victorian-era homes. This is a pleasant walking tour, and the gardens should be gorgeous. (Remember though, Evansville isn't the surface of the sun in July, but you can sure see it from here! The heat and humidity in July will be certainly present and accounted for!
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Unfortunately, you'll miss the Shriner's Festival and air show in late June. If interested in small trips, Vincennes, Indiana, just an hour to the north, is a good spot - they have the George Rogers Clark Memorial (Revolutionary War), and a very nice 2nd World War museum with many static displays.
To the west is New Harmony, an hour away, which is a photographer's dream. Beautiful place to capture some historic buildings.
Last, if your up for a couple of hour drive, you could head over the Wabash to Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Park, in Southern Illinois (not the one in Colorado!) After visiting this gorgeous place, take a jaunt south to Cave in Rock, Illinois and cross the Ohio River on the Ferry that operates there daily - for free. Then come up through Western Kentucky to Henderson, KY, over the twin bridges, and back to E-ville. Fun drive, but it is a day trip
Safe Journeys!
Michael