I spotted this barn while out roaming around a long time ago, and I came across this photo recently while going through old photos. I don’t remember posting this one, so I thought I’d share. I wonder if there was a time where this barn suddenly gave out a gasp and settled into this position?

With structures like this, I find it interesting to stop by again after a while and see how the ravages of time have progressed. Unfortunately, in this case, I don’t know if that’ll be possible…

I take my Garmin on all my photo trips, and I collect waypoints the way I collect photos. I keep a map – with photos numbers – of all my photo locations in my Garmin software at home as well as on Google Maps. I didn’t always do this so diligently, though, and I didn’t have the capability of geotagging my images directly back then, so it’s unlikely I’ll ever spot this barn again to see what happened to it. There is a possibility, though, because I remember what I was doing on this trip:

This was my office for the weekend: the truck on the right. I had a freelance job – Pay-Per-View boxing of some sort – and was on my way from a friend’s lake cabin, about an hour or so from the event, so we could work the gig.

This was my view for the weekend. I do live video work, mostly sports these days, for any network who needs a guy. Primarily, I’m an Instant Replay guy, like this particular weekend, but I also do camera, audio, graphics, and directing. For the show pictured above, I was supposed to be the Tape Operator (yes, major networks still use tape for broadcast) but ended up doing double-duty as a replay op missed their flight out of Seattle.

So, I figure all I need to do is look at the probable route we took between the cabin and the venue, and a barn like this is certain to show up – if it’s still intact.

UPDATE: I asked the friend who worked this gig with me, and he told me he remembers that barn as well as I do…possibly better, since his cabin is in the general area. He remembers that we photographed the Northern Lights that night from the cabin, too. He told me which road we were on, and which side of the road the barn was located. From there, it wasn’t too hard to do some pixel-peeping on The Google along that road, and I found the probable location of that barn. Sadly, it’s gone. Going back through successive years of aerial imagery, it looks like this barn was razed within a year of our visit – the object I believe is this Fallen Farm disappears in imagery the year after I took the photo. Well, I’m glad I got the image while I could.