A shack in the woods – More on the shack

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As you can see it turned out to be more of a neglected garden shed than a shack. From the state of it I’d say that its days are numbered. As I was taking the pictures I heard a voice asking me what I was doing. I looked up and saw a man coming towards me from a neighboring property. I replied that I was taking pictures and he asked for what purpose. I told him that I lived nearby and was documenting the area around me and structures such as this would eventually disappear and I wanted to record them before they did. He seemed to accept this and told me that I was on private property (not his though he was just a concerned neighbor). I already suspected this but I told him that I followed a path and it had brought me here. I had seen no signs. He agreed and told me that he’d told the town about this, but that they hadn’t done anything about it and turned to walk away. I asked him if he thought it would be ok for me to take a few pictures and the told me that it would.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.

A shack in the woods – A surprise

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I continued along the path mentioned in the preceding post thinking it might take me closer to shack I’d seen. It wound around a bit more, ran alongside a nearby park and then to my surprise turned off into the woods and curved around towards the shack. Then I saw this building looming above me – certainly not a shack. In fact, I knew immediately what it was. It was the mansion associated with the gates I’d already posted about only recently (See: Lions at the Gate). I also realized that even though I had seen no signs I was probably on private property and that I should leave as soon a possible. I had two alternatives: to go back the way I had come; continue along the path to see where it would come out (I was pretty sure I knew where that would be). I chose the latter.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.

A shack in the woods – along a path

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I went for a walk in a familiar area. I’d been there before, and had even noticed this path (which was new but not that new) but had not explored further. This time I decided to follow the path and see where it went. It wound around and after a while I spotted this run down old shack in the woods. I seemed worthy of a photograph.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.