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βThere is a magic in that little world, home . . ."Robert Southey
I wish I could go 'home'.
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i feel i see a very light orange faded around the drops
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You may be right. It might even be a color photo. In the winter here, things always look black and white and gray.
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I love this, and it reminded me how much I love scenes of Winter, so I had to set up a new collection of Winter Scenes. Thank you, for a very nice picture. It's wondrous for people who love contemplating winter, while remaining comfortably in their easy chair.
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I love to go out into the snow with snowshoes and such... but I also need sun and warm fires.. LOL
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In the comments, you said you took this from a jeep at a stoplight, and something like, "does that ruin the magic?" God no! Photojournalists get astonishing photos during conventions, riots, even war, and they snap, snap, snap, and retrieve that handful of shots that look as if someone came down from the heavens and set everything up for them: They're spontaneous but near-perfect. I don't think it matters where you are or what you're doing when you shoot, because your eye lives in a time of its own and sees eternity where we see a moment. (Yeah, it's trite, but I think it's true...) So wherever you were when you shot this, your eye was in soul-time, and that's what you captured when you turned and took the photo...
Part of the magic for me was the semi-focused house & background trees, which are doused in memory; and (of course) the snow on your window, which not only feels like memory, but actual tears. If this is the midwest, it could be Mich, Wisc, North. Ill, Minn, etc., and it has that sunken-in-the-woods look so common to those places---even if in a big town! (I'm from the midwest, I know how a street corner can feel like the wilderness!). And the other magic is the subtle presence of color, those dabs of red & earth colors on the leaves (and lurking in your shadows) and a bluish undertone everywhere, which gives it all a melancholy hue....a haunting & beautiful capture with just enough hints of reds & browns to remind us that under the snow there's a landscape very much alive & which obviously meant a lot to you...
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It is Michigan and that is where I grew up. I left there and lived in California for a very long time and now am back a fair amount of my time. Mostly the image is a symbol of a kind of emotional exile that I have felt in the last 5 or so years... and that I believe, others have experienced in one way or another. There is melancholy for "home", a safe place, refuge in the midst of very trying events.
Your reading of my work is quite remarkable and I do appreciate your comments so much. Thanks for getting me.
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ps...every so often my artist friends & I exchange finds, and we comment; here's my friend Susan, a portr. photographer & painter (she's not signed up here, so I quote from the phone): "It's wonderful that m.y. didn't make it b&w but left the hints of real color! It really is a color photograph! There are bits of real color all over the picture. It just makes the drama so much more palpable. And I don't see tears, I see a snow storm and it's wonderful how it washes across the image like it's being whooshed by. Tell her I'm looking at it right now and I love it!"
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I guess thats why we are able to dream.
Lovely picture
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this is great. it's one of those pictures which would really give you inspiration for a story or something. good composition...it looks reeeeally cold. hehe.
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story... I need to write... but I rarely do... thanks!
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As always, beautifully and poetically captured. There's always a story to be discerned in your photography.
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What a great comment. You've made my day!
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A visual delight. Very pretty. It almost appears as black and white. I thought it was.
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Thanks. Yes... it is almost bw.. but everything here is now during winter.
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Thank you. :snow: (yeah, it's snowy here) and I'm tired or hearts and love..
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It wasn't as cold that day but the whole concept of the image is definitely 'out in the cold'.
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it looks like an ordinary house but it's still gives me the creeps..I imagine it to be some kind of a "blair witch" residence 
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It does definitely have that vibe.
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This is the midwest I remember. Wonderful image. Also, from now on I'll be more tolerant of the weather when I'm shooting from moving trains.
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the title says it all,
you just don't feel like you can walk upto the door.
i guess some people can't go home, wherever our true home is.
beautiful image. stirring.
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thanks for giving it !
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Oh my...such a dull thumbnail--and such an enchanting photo! It does indeed make one long to go home... Your images never fail to sing to me, Dear!
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Thank you so much. I was at first concerned abou the low contrast of the original but it didn't look right when I boosted it.
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