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Harper Memorial Library and the Tempest

February 11, 2014 Justin Kern
 The whiteout and the library.  225 megapixels

The whiteout and the library.  225 megapixels

Near-whiteout conditions rolled into town just as I was ready for them.  The scholars were safely behind office doors and the students nursing hangovers under the covers.  A snowstorm is at once a violent and a gentle thing.  Great muffling walls of white dropped all at once from the heavens.  By the time I had finished making this image, clumps of snow were rolling off my shoulders.

Somewhere, still echoing in the past if not only in my memory, are footfalls of a younger self, trudging to work or to class or to the lab through these snows.  I remember the gratitude at regaining a footpath heated by the steam pipes, sure footing meant that a hot cup of coffee and a dry sofa would come quickly.  

No such respite for the gargoyles and spires of campus, just the slow, the solemn peace of a deep winter, and the fresh, white blanket.

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