Suomieksotiikkaa SAATANA! - Abandoned

A traditional type of Finnish wooden house, build in the early 20th century, left to rotten somewhere in the late 80's. The Finnish countryside is filled with houses like this, once occupied by families, then maybe left to one of the siblings who decided to stay alone in the outskirts while others moved to cities in search of a better life.

When the old man dies, and no children are left to take care of the house, a distant relative inherits the old house but hardly even visits it, maybe just to check if there is anything valuable or a nice decorative piece to be brought back to bring some interest to the city interior. There is no monetary value in the house, but the lands around it are sold and profits used to pay for the mortgage of the city apartment or for buying a new car.

The house is left alone, maybe every now and then it goes on the local newspaper "house for sale", a little add in the corner of the next to last page, where it stays without nobody really paying attention. New couples and families trying to find homes are not willing to buy something that would require a lot of renovation. Who knows how much money it would take and it's so old fashioned and its so far away from the nearest store too.

So the house stays lonely. Once in a while the current owner goes there, on his way to the summer cabin. Sees that one window is broken and a bird made a nest on top of the cabinet in the wall, he barres the window, takes one look around, sighs and leaves.

Such is the tale of many old houses, abandoned and left to rot.

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This is where I wanted to go shooting today, but my entry was blocked.

This would have been the perfect place to test out the new Sigma lens on the 18mm end and see how much light I can get with it, shooting in the dark corners of this old abandoned house. I went around the house, to a back window I used once before to get in, I was literally waist deep in snow and very disappointed when I saw that the window had been barred from inside.

Oh well, still wanted to share something and came up with a bit of a story, hope you liked it.