Sara that is so frustrating! Your bridge is beautiful though.
We have a lot of farmland here with beautiful horses. As a photographer I always shoot from the road, I might stand up on a fence but never climb over it. I grew up on a dairy farm, I'm all too aware of what may happen if I missed a bull out in a field. We have a lot of pretty horse farms here, and many of the race horses are not all that friendly either. My daughter LOVES to pet horses when we go for a drive. We pet whoever runs up to the fence when they see us. I can't imagine running onto someone's land without permission or suing a farmer if one of his horses hurt my daughter when we were up at his fence of our own accord! It would be my fault for taking the risk of petting an unknown animal! Luckily we've found that most farmers around here don't mind if we pet their horses, they like to talk about them and show them off.
We pet horses that don't look like multimillion dollar race horses, hah. But in rural KY, if you are trespassing you do take the risk of being shot, seriously.
There are places that I have desperately wanted to photograph (especially some abandoned houses!) but I can't figure out which farm house the field belongs to and I feel stupid just knocking on random doors, lol. The only one I've ever actually climbed a fence to get to was this AMAZING 1800's plantation house. It was right up on the road, and it had a huge curving staircase inside with beautiful peeling painted walls in bright colors, old fire places in every room, it was almost a spiritual experience. I felt like I could just sit silently in there for hours. Totally worth getting shot at for.
Sadly lots of other people had been in it and vandalized it. Humanity sucks sometimes.
And people stealing peanuts!?! Are those crops that you make money from??? How could anyone think that is acceptable behavior? I would call the cops ASAP any time I saw people in my crops and hope they would do something, if not just scare people away.
We have a lot of farmland here with beautiful horses. As a photographer I always shoot from the road, I might stand up on a fence but never climb over it. I grew up on a dairy farm, I'm all too aware of what may happen if I missed a bull out in a field. We have a lot of pretty horse farms here, and many of the race horses are not all that friendly either. My daughter LOVES to pet horses when we go for a drive. We pet whoever runs up to the fence when they see us. I can't imagine running onto someone's land without permission or suing a farmer if one of his horses hurt my daughter when we were up at his fence of our own accord! It would be my fault for taking the risk of petting an unknown animal! Luckily we've found that most farmers around here don't mind if we pet their horses, they like to talk about them and show them off.
There are places that I have desperately wanted to photograph (especially some abandoned houses!) but I can't figure out which farm house the field belongs to and I feel stupid just knocking on random doors, lol. The only one I've ever actually climbed a fence to get to was this AMAZING 1800's plantation house. It was right up on the road, and it had a huge curving staircase inside with beautiful peeling painted walls in bright colors, old fire places in every room, it was almost a spiritual experience. I felt like I could just sit silently in there for hours. Totally worth getting shot at for.
And people stealing peanuts!?! Are those crops that you make money from??? How could anyone think that is acceptable behavior? I would call the cops ASAP any time I saw people in my crops and hope they would do something, if not just scare people away.
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