Headed out to the desert for this challenge to an area called Lake Los Angeles which is East of Palmdale. This is about 15 minutes east of where I took my Diner shot. It is totally in the middle of nowhere and it feels like you are not even in the United States anymore. I was looking to photograph abandoned buildings/houses but I already had this yellow house in mind. I had already done research on this house and even contacted a flickr member for its location with a helpful response. What you see in the front of the photograph is a broken chair/table which I found makes for a more interesting composition. I had nothing to do with placing of the broken chair and table, they were on the scene when I got there so I left them intact and instead tried to move my camera in such a was that would create a more interesting composition. Unfortunately no clouds in the sky like there were in my diner shot because I feel like it would have made this picture a lot more interesting.
The sun had already set but it was still bright enough for me to see what I was doing. It was the spookiest feeling ever being all by myself in the middle of the desert past sunset time. I took a few shots from far away, no problems there. Things started to get really weird when I decided to get close to the house. I went and stood right at the doorway of the house and decided to take a few shots of inside of the house. I set up the camera, go to the live view mode, ready to click, and I get this error message for the first time EVER:
"Err 30: Shooting is not possible, Turn the power switch to off and on again or reinstall the battery"
I turn the camera off and turn it back on again. I take the battery out and put it back in again, and I am about to shoot and I get the same error message again, then I suddenly hear a loud rattling sound from inside of the house. Now I'm thinking that the house doesn't want me take its picture close up. Once that happened, I decided to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. Hey I do believe in ghosts, what can I say ...
Of course as soon as I got back home the camera was working perfectly again and I have not seen that error message since.
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Absolutely gorgeous image.. and the story behind it is EVEN BETTER! At least you were able to take this shot before the camera went crazy!
Well deserved!
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