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First Snow: One afternoon, December 2007

33 photos became 15 · forty minutes · the first snow of 2007

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The first real snow of that winter came on December 1, 2007. I went out in it with the camera and walked the railroad tracks and a trail through the woods for about forty minutes.

Snow takes most of the color out of a place and leaves the lines. Rails running off into the fog, bare branches and one red berry that didn’t get the message.

Railroad tracks running straight into falling snow and fog, between brown grass
Snow-covered railroad tracks fading into a white sky, bare trees on both sides
Railroad tracks curving into the distance in a snowstorm, a power line tower behind them
A rail line beside a snowy field under power lines, everything washed out in grey
A snow-covered trail running straight through a misty field
The same trail at dusk, the snow gone deep blue
A wide snowy path past a railroad signal into fog
A snowy trail through bare woods, fading into the white
A narrow path through the trees, with fresh snow on the ground
Thin dark tree trunks against a white sky
A bare tree reaching out with snow resting along its branches
Dry stems and seed heads poking up out of the snow
One red berry on a bare branch against a blurred grey forest
Bare branches seen through the round opening of a hollow log
A snow angel's impression in fresh snow beside the trail

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