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May 20, 2013

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May 20, 2013

Summer Cottage, Spain

Photograph by Miguel Parra, Your Shot

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This shot was taken in Villa Luisita, a 19th-century house on the outskirts of Cortegana near Huelva in southern Spain. We were spending a few days in the countryside. At the end of the day, the summer light changes continuously and the activities around the house get a different significance every minute.

A little before sunset, while there is still light, we always have to collect the geese and the clothes that are drying in the sun. The most difficult thing is to convince the children to stop playing and get into the cottage to have dinner and rest after a long summer day. Their shadows seem to linger a little on the colored walls to make the sunlight last longer. —Miguel Parra

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Anubhab Dey

awesome thinking..and very good timing

eugenio tapia

Great photograph! not only for its framing and layout of colours, volumes and shadows, also for its disturbing effect: it evokes the arcadian side of childhood, the return to our origins and the loss of innocence but it also suggests a lurking menace, the archetypical fears of children's stories and the unconscious.