My Favorite Photos of Greater Lafayette In 2024

These best of lists are starting to wind down.

This is one of my favorite photos on the year. I was looking for a photo when I got a call from my family. I was waited for the sun to pop out for a second and it did right when a nice little van was coming by. It was kind of neat to make this image with my parents and brother on FaceTime with me. This was going to be a fun photo, but the van turned it into one of my favorite images of the year.

This is a scene that I realize happens quite a bit during the summer, but this was the first time that I saw it. I love the ice cream truck and the ivy on the wall to the side of it. These are more of the photos that I wanted to make last year. Little scenes showing where I live.

This was the year of finding the murals in my area. I found Wabash Avenue and the murals there this summer, and then a few weeks later I had the pleasure of seeing some new murals being painted. It is impossible to put all of those photos that I like in one post. Maybe I will throw a few of them at the end of this so that you don’t have to scroll through them all.

This church was a fun find when I just started driving around Lafayette getting lost in my own town. I was in an area that I didn’t know that well, but I had fun finding new things. This church was everything that I wanted in a church photo. I love how this turned out.

A building coming down should not be a favorite photo, but I like how this came together. You have the work to get the building down in the middle with a couple of CityBus vehicles on either side of the frame. This was a fun year of just walking downtown to see what happens. This was the fruit of one of those walks.

I like this photograph of Triple XXX for a couple of reasons. The first is the way that it came out in black and white. The second is how the people in the window look. This really reminds me a little of the famous Edward Hopper painting. I am not comparing the two, but this gives me a dime store fell of it.

Part of the fun of my walks downtown is trying new things. Here I had some film and a sun that was going down. With film you get a little extra dynamic range. When you are photographing into the sun that is vital. Here I guessed my exposure, and I was right where I hoped that I would be. I really like how this photo came together.

At a summer band concert I saw this flag and scoreboard and thought that I couldn’t find a much more Indiana photo. You have the basketball scoreboard alongside the flag. It is a simple photo, but that was the goal last year. To find more simple photos.

The new(er) parking garage in Lafayette is lit up for different occasions. Here is was perfect for this photo with a streaking car going by. I really like how this photo turned out.

Part of this year was spent documenting a few buildings in the Levee area that were going to be torn down. They are now gone so these photos are a little cooler to me. Here are a couple of my favorite photos from those drives down to the Levee.

The Murdock Building is one of many historic buildings in Lafayette. Here I was walking by right as the sun was going down over it. I like the way that everything worked out in this frame.

There are so many festivals in downtown Lafayette during the year. They are all fun in their own way. Here is one of my favorite images from one of those festivals.

This is part of a fun scene that I saw on Ferry Street. You have the normal front porch scene in good light, but the equation on the board makes it a fun photo for me. This year as I keep saying I wanted to focus on small scenes more. This definitely qualifies.

There is not a lot to this photo, but the infrared photo of this downtown Lafayette statue just looks good to me. Another simple frame.

During another festival in downtown Lafayette I made a photo of this game of Twister in front of Flora Candle. I never saw anyone playing it, but that might have been the only thing that would have made this frame better.

The infrared camera comes through again to give me a frame that I really like of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse. This is another simple frame with the negative space doing a lot of lifting.

Those are my favorite photos from the Greater Lafayette area this past year. I purposely leave out Purdue photos for their own post, but this pretty much covers everything else. Did you have a favorite here? This was a fun year exploring with a different goal in mind. It really reinvigorated me and my photography. I hope to build on that this year. As promised here are a few favorites from the Wabash Walls murals going up this year.