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As a child in the '70s, I sometimes went to play in this abandoned fishing shack down the road from where I lived beside Lake Erie. A small adjacent pond provided skating opportunities when ice on the lake was too rough. Thirty years later the shack was in a state of collapse, and has since been torn down.
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Colour PDI, August 2024, Goolwa Camera Club
From Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands National Historic Monument.
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At Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands National Historic Monument, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.
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Glouscester, MA
06-10-2023
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Shot with the Olympus E-Mw, Mark II in Menemsha, Martha's Vineyard.
I invite you to have a peek inside these windows.
A battered fishing shack shot along the docks in Menemsha on Martha's Vineyard.
Shot with the Olympus E-M1, Mark II in Menemsha Village, Chilmark, Massachusetts.
Sometimes old, decaying doors and windows can be appealing, as long as they are not on my house.
Historic Seal Cove on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick Canada
The village of Seal Cove is a National Historic Site of Canada. It consists of approximately 54 wooden buildings which were originally smoked herring stands or sheds. They are picturesque, sadly in various stages of disrepair, and a fundamentally important part of the Island’s history and heritage. The Village was established around 1870, and by the early 1880s, Grand Manan became the largest supplier of smoked herring in the world.
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Waders required!
An old fishing shack near L' Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Painting by Crimson R Dahl
Owatonna Minnesota
Photographed at the Steele County Free Fair
Steele County Fairgrounds
Saturday August 19th, 2023
The red fishing shack of Rockport, Massachusetts. The shack is a replica of the original structure, built in 1840, which was destroyed by a blizzard in 1978.
Photo credit: Rosa Picci / Wikimedia Commons
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Rockport Harbor
Rockport, MA
06-10-23
This little fishing shack at the end of the wharf in the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts is quite famous. According to newengland.com it's the most painted building in the world. That's saying something. It adorns the cover of almost every tourist map and book I encountered when in New England and of course I made a point to photograph it.
Since everyone always tells me my HDR photos "look like paintings" anyway, I applied some "secret" art filters on top of the HDR and did some other stuff to make an attempt to really show the subject somewhat "painterly."
The view here isn't what I've usually seen in all the other photos and paintings of this building. That's possibly because I didn't just stand on the wharf, but got down to the floating wharf in the middle of the harbor.
The original fishing shack was built in the 1840s. It was destroyed in the "great blizzard of 1978" and rebuilt later that year. Here is some history from the newengland.com website:
"As Rockport gained notoriety as an artists’ haven, painters flocked to the town to capture the true-blue New England scenes. One such painter, Lester Hornby, loved the area and taught painting classes in the summer. He would send his students out to paint whatever scenes caught their eyes, and he noticed a trend in the work he got back. His students seemed to favor the little red building over anything else on Rockport’s seaside landscape. It was the quintessential icon of a New England fishing town, right down to the ever-so-slightly weathered paint. It was becoming a “motif” — a French term for a theme within a work of art that often repeats itself. Legend has it that upon being presented with yet another rendition of the shack, Hornby exclaimed “What? Motif No. 1 again!” and we’ve been calling it that ever since."
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