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Are they taking pictures of the trees or the house? Or do you live in a tree house?
I think is it OK to take pictures of the trees, not OK to peer through the windows and take pictures of the inside of your house (or you).
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I was in church once, taking a picture of a stained glass window, and this one lady started screaming at me for taking a picture of her. That was creepy.
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We do have random people take pictures of our house once in a while, which is cool, my mom drew the pictures to design it, it's shaped like an old barn. Usually they get out of the car, ask, take the pictures, and talk for quite a while. Once someone even sent a picture of a house they built like ours, but several hours away.
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Tante, they are taking pictures of the trees. (At least that's what I keep saying to myself.)
Enigmatic, nobody's asked. They usually stand across the street in the Methodist parking lot and take pictures from there. The only reason I even know about it is because I've been out on the back porch with my husband, (who, from his vantage point) can see the parking lot, and he's seen them and told me about it. I've peeked around the corner a couple of those times, and there are definitely people taking pictures of the trees. (The trees are very pretty this year. Last year, the leaves were all orange. This year, the ones in the front are mostly red, one on the side is orange and the other one is orange and yellow. And even though all four of them are identical trees, even in size, the side tree with the most yellow leaves has the most humongous leaves I've seen in a while.
(I'd really freak out if they actually came into the yard to take a picture of the oak tree. It's really cool from that angle, but it would really freak me to have strangers just wandering through the yard to get the picture.)
Here are some pictures I took a couple of weeks ago. I hate digital cameras. They really don't capture the beauty of the tree, plus, we have a crappy camera. The other one is better, but it needs new batteries every 12 pictures or so. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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I think it's cool Kayla. They want to preserve a bit of the beauty your trees (and by extention you) provide in the world. Be happy that you're providing not just fleeting but more lasting beauty.
If people were actually coming into your yard, that would be another matter entirely - they should certainly first ask your permission to be in your yard (and the experience would probably be weirder for you).
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It would be kind of fun to set something up that would, when the pictures were developed, look as though there were something ghostly under the trees. Not sure off the top of my head how to do that in such a way that they wouldn't see it when taking the pictures, but would see it in the pictures themselves.
Of course, if you were able to pull that off chances are that there would be many more people coming by to try to take pictures of the ghost itself (and if somebody decides that it looks like the Virgin Mary rather than a ghost, god help you).
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Lovely pictures Kayla. I miss fall in the midwest.
That's the only think I miss about the weather in the midwest though. You couldn't PAY me to live there again....well. I guess you could. But I wouldn't want to. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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You have absolutely beautiful trees in your yard, Kayla. They are like works of art. I have seen them, and I totally understand people taking pictures of them. I took a few myself!
Be proud of your trees!
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I was in Beira, Mozambique a few years back and stopped to take pictures of the wrecked shell of the "Grand Hotel" there. I heard people yelling from the building but couldn't figure out what they were saying--finally I realized it was "nao tira foto!" (or "don't take pictures!" in Portuguese.) Oops. My bad. They lived there. They clearly thought it was creepy to have gawking foreigners coming and taking pictures of their home.
Tangents aside, I can see why it would feel weird to have people taking pictures of your trees. But at least they are all nice people who can appreciate beauty in nature! ;-)
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