If I remember correctly, this building was used as both a church and a school, which sounds logical but is actually uncommon in many rural communities. The camera exposure on this frame is critical; snow needs to be white but retain the slightest of detail.
The same Fairfield, ID school/church, but different feel.
A Delaware-based, visual arts professor once congratulated me on my brilliant composition using converging diagonal lines. I nodded wisely, knowing that this was an intuitive composition and not strategically conceived.
Looking at this image now, I would have darkened the light sky, just a bit. South Fork of the Snake River, ID.
I was studying the work of the painter Andrew Wyeth, when I took this.
When I look at this now, I would have shot this with a slightly darker exposure, and framed it with less foreground and more sky, accenting the bowl-shaped horizon.
These three Centennial Marsh, ID images were taken from a similar but not identical perspective, possibly on different days.
Centennial Marsh, ID.
Centennial Marsh, ID - a bit later.
It took me a couple of days to get all of the elements of this image aligned. Bridger Mts., MT after 2020 fire.
“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.”
– Mark Twain