'Secret passageway.' Shadow Photo Contest. Round 45. Fence Shadows. Original photography.

Down.
Earthy wooden.
Steps. Leading to a secret.
Passageway. To our manor estate.
Green hills. Wide open spaces. Kookaburras.
Magpies. Cockatoos. Rainbow Lorikeets. Wild ducks.
Sunlight filtering through the Gums.
Mist rising from the valleys.
I feel so grateful.
To be here.
~Ally.

The theme for @melinda010100's Shadow Photo Contest this week is Fence Shadows.

I started making my own little fence from lichen-covered twigs bound with hemp twine ~ But like so much of my work, this little fence is still in process.

However, I'm getting to know this aspect of myself just a little better and prepared for such an eventuality ~ By taking my camera with me on one of my early morning walks.

The boundary fence of our local golf course.

I love to walk over our local golf course early in the morning. But unlike the golfers, we the local residents have to crawl through a secret entrance, which I'd like to show you now. Provided you don't tell anyone that is.

Apart from the open entrance to the clubhouse, and where it edges on the creek, the golf course is completely bounded by a very high and sturdy chain-linked fence: To keep any stray golf balls in or to keep local kids out? Bit of both.

The early morning shadows of this fence created a crisscrossing network over the earthy steps that lead down to the creek at the very bottom of the pathway ~ Transforming the usual safe pathway into a treacherous barbed one ~ So that every step became life-threatening and had to be taken with the greatest of caution.

Can you feel the heightened sense of danger in this photograph?

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The regular shadows of the chain-linked fence on the flat ground are not nearly as scary.

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These gates are about halfway down the pathway from the street to the creek. They used to be open. But now they're padlocked and even a small kid would have trouble squeezing through them.

The shadows of the fence are muted by those of the competing trees.

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After about five minutes we reach the bottom of the golf course and the end of the chain-linked fence.

No exciting shadows here, but I wanted to reveal our secret entrance. Isn't it great? We have the choice of one entrance where we can step over the bundled wire or duck under the railing of the other entrance. Which entrance would you take?

I'll have a special surprise for anyone who can tell me what the sign resting underneath the collapsed wire says.

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Photography: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
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