My dear snailfearing troll:-) Iīm back from Norway, the land of trolls and no killersnails. A rainy vacation but wonderful spending time in the cabin without electricity, getting heat from the fireplace and having to pump up water and having a toilet outside in a shed by the woods and cliffs:-)Rainy and cold but wonderful. Thank you for your comment and for your fine suggestion. My battery went dead after taking this photo in Sweden, so I couldnīt really change it, but when seing it at home, I felt just like you that the house should have been out of the photo. Indeed like a fantasyland and it has inspired me to do something similar on our mailbox when thereīs time for it:-) I forgot to put down that this was in Sweden and "och" does mean "and" in Swedish. In Danish we say "og":-) XO
Yes, this is quite something. This photograph reminds me of the work of William Eggleston, the famous American photographer. The one thing I would say is that I wish you could have positioned yourself slightly higher up so that you could have excluded any trace of the house behind. There's a reason why I think this would have been better... whoever owns this mailbox has, for me, tried to create a little world of his or her own, a fantasyland, a haven from the outside world. By cutting out the house, I think this would emphasise the point even more... then, the background and the mailbox would almost merge, at least in a 'symbolic' sense. I've cropped the photo to illustrate my point, but it doesn't work as a crop because there isn't enough space left at the top of the frame, hence my wishing you could have taken it from higher up. I really like this... I could picture it published in a magazine of art photography.
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