18/10/2025
This rundown shack (condemned, but not abandoned) gets photographed very often. As a matter of fact, someone was just on the other side of it while this got taken. Everyone always go for the same angles; I will take the not so popular angles. It’s not THE subject of the frame, the entire frame is the subject. Someone else pulled up just as we were leaving. The guy that was there before we pulled up, his name is Mark and also from Nevada. Very nice man, and we got to talking a little bit and both have a disdain for social media ‘modeling’ and influencing. If you truly want to influence people to go somewhere to look at scenery, then photograph the scenery; not you in it. It’s about you at that point and not about where you’re at. (Another social media buzz word I cannot stand: ‘abandoned’ - someone owns it, it’s not abandoned. And this old dwelling has a story, but someone still owns it and respect their fence, even though it was downed in a section).