When I arrived home yesterday I was informed that three people had walked down our driveway and one started taking pictures of the other two standing in our driveway using our yard as a backdrop. We live 20 miles from town. Our driveway fronts on a state highway. The driveway wasn't posted yesterday. Am I wrong to think it rude of people to just come in, stand just short of the house & start snapping pictures? It was frosty & the trees were beautiful; but what happened to respect for personal property? Am I being overly isolationist, unfriendly, paranoid? Am I acting aristocratically to protect my privacy because I happen to own rural property?
It was rude and not respectful. You are not paranoid or acting uppity either.
I have been taking photographs for decades. When we first looked at the property we know own, I saw many places that would make good photographs. One is the road that curves and goes uphill/downhill through the woods. It would make a good image when the snow falls. Well, it took weeks of work clearing the saplings, digging up stumps, and regrading the road to make it picture perfect.
A few years go by after we buy the land and I have cleared the road before we get a decent snow fall. :dance1::cool2: I drive an hour out to the place to find that a kid drove his ATV around the gate which was marked by two no trespass signs and over some survey stakes.
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He had gone up the road tearing up the snow and ruined the photo I had been WAITING FOR YEARS to take.
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We were leaving the tractor and equipment on the land, "hidden" in the woods and he drove circles around the equipment.
I followed his tracks home and had a discussion with his mother about posted signs.
They moved a few years later.
By this time, we had built our house and moved out to the house. :cool2:
We finally got another snow storm! :dance1::cool2::dance1:
It was a very heavy snow and too thick to go out into while it was falling to get a photo, but as soon as the snow had stopped, out I went to take the photograph I had been waiting many years to take! :cool2:
I walked down the driveway and see that two a holes had walked up the road after climbing over the %^&*()_ gate.
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They were visiting their family who had bought the house from the ATV kid.
It took almost a decade for me to get the photograph I had first envisioned. Three attempts because of rude people.
Later,
Dan