Ombres d'hiver - Winter shadows

These photographs were taken during our short stay in Brittany this past December. While going for walks with Vlada I kept noticing beautiful and sometimes mildly strange shadows on houses, walls, fields of grass. This was winter with a lot of houses locked-up for the season, not a lot of clutter in their courtyards and of course no leaves on most trees, which made it easier for these light effects to form. In Spring and Summer, there are other things to notice. My favorite picture in this series is the shadow of a gnarly fig tree on a simple white house with its twin set of shuttered french doors (below).