Photography
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed when my search of this old place came up empty handed.
I thought I hit the jackpot when I started looking for history on this one. Yet it turns out that what I found contradicted itself. So, I’m going to consider this one another one that left me empty handed.
But, it was not all for nothing. While trying to make sense of the stories, I found another old abandonded house that I have put on my to do list this coming summer.
I thought I’d take a drive a few weeks back and check on an old house that is starting to feel its age and neglect.
The first time I was at this house (I’ve gone many times) she had a bit of a lean but she was standing up pretty straight considering. I seriously contemplated going inside but didn’t because I could see just about everything from the windows.
Over the years I have considered taking grad photos at this house but I never have. Maybe I will take the 2025 grads over here for a few shots and see what I get. Or maybe this house will be gone by then.
I’ll keep checking in periodically to see how she is making out.
Before Christmas Colton and I headed up to Birtle for a hockey game. I thought I would take highway 83 as the 511 app showed good highways and I figured this would eliminate the zig zagging on the highways. Well, it was icy and the closer we got to Birtle, the foggier it got.
This was a real piss off as I had hoped to get some photographs of the old residential school for an upcoming unit at school AND I was going to head up to an old stone mansion about 20 kms from the rink. Nope. Mother Nature had other plans.
I did find a lot of potential photo ops along the way and did stop for a couple shots of this one as it was right alongside the highway. This is also when I discovered that the highway was very icy, even though it didn’t look like it while I was cruising along.
I didn’t even bother to look up a history.
I have driven by this place over and over and over again. You see, there is something else at this location that likely grabs the attention of many when they drive by. Yesterday as the sun was setting, I was trying to get the perfect sunset shot so I drove down this road and wow, jackpot.
I wanted to caputure what I found and I will definately be going back to shoot all of the glorious buildings on this old farmstead. In the meantime I will be making the proper arrangements to locate and speak to the owner and get back to it.
Goes to show that you never know what is in that clump of trees!
Today I had every intention of getting out again to knock off another 5 or 6 properties off my list but the sky wasn’t to my liking and its given me a chance to update, research and orgainze the finds I found yesterday.
If you live where I live, you’ll know this house because there is a good chance you’ve passed it on a road trip to Winnipeg. An easy capture from the side of the highway. And a bonus, on this particular day, it wasn’t raining.
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