Nice soft tones and use of shadow for mood. This would be a great candidate for an early 1900's Stieglitz type pictorial with some vignetting, grain, and sepia tone in a second (not better, but different) version.
One of the most emotively beautiful prints I have ever seen. A moment captured in time that will never occur again. That is what the best of the best photographer does. Dust and grain add to the artistic character of this pre-digital age shot!
Thanks Joe, you highly flatter me! But you know the deal, even as an artist, which by employment I am not (I am a food scientist); you basically have to submit to a melancholy death before your work is recognized. I am not in the mood for the latter, so I will stay with the unsung!
Nice framing of the shot with the tree branches. The vertical stack of horizontal garden path lines builds for a powerful foreground leading to the building, with a geometrically juxtaposed diagonal path for the viewer to get there without impedance!
Watching the innocent kids of multiple backgrounds play with the pigeons together in Dam Square Amsterdam, reminds me of the potential our civilization has.
She is the guardian faerie of the woods where the young ones play. Though over a hundred years old, she gains her youth by extraction from all those that attempt to pass by with the malintent of desecrating the forest or her kin. The aged molts of her victims line the forest underbrush surrounding.
Closed eyes add to the nice mysterious mood! Color tone, tilt, and grain make this seem to be a vintage Polaroid capture. Nice wall hanger in an art deco opportunity!