About the photograph

A few minutes later I framed the tree another way: a small hollow in the snow in front of me, a few dry stems standing in it, and the spruce beyond under a heavy grey sky. Fine snow hung in the air and softened the distance. It is a single instant, so the hollow and the drift hold every detail.

What it does for the room

Most of the frame is open snow, so it gives a wall space to breathe rather than filling it. Above a sofa or a sideboard, choose 24×36, 32×40, 40×50 or 40×60. Above a bed, 20×30 or 24×30 sits well. For a hallway, a reading corner or a pair of shelves, the square 12×12, 20×20 or 24×24 works, and 8×10 or 8×12 suits a desk or a small wall. The palette is soft white and warm grey with one dark spruce, so it sits quietly with light oak, linen, stone and pale plaster, and it reads as soft rather than cold.

Real photograph

One exposure, made on location. No composites, no generated content. Tone and light are refined in editing, as with any fine-art print.

Where it fits

Living rooms, bedrooms, hallways and quiet home offices, in Japandi, Scandinavian, wabi-sabi and minimalist rooms. As a present, it suits someone who has travelled to Hokkaido in winter, or anyone making a calmer home, and it comes with a small story to tell when it is opened.

Feng Shui Application Info

In Chinese painting, the evergreen in winter stands for steadiness through a hard season. Here the lone spruce of Biei, Hokkaido, stands above a hollow of wind-carved snow.
Placement in the tradition: a living room or study, on an east or south-east wall, the two directions of the wood element.
Kua number: in the Eight Mansions school the east and south-east walls belong to the East group, Kua 1, 3, 4 and 9. This pairing is read from the published direction tables; no text was written for this picture.
It is a real photograph for your wall, with no promise of luck or fortune.

On the wall, true to scale

Frames and mats shown for illustration only and are not included. Your print ships unframed.