Art & Drabble: November

[sigune]

My entry for the Pure-Blood Prince Fest at e_prince_snape, and cross-posted there...

Title: November
Author/Artist: sigune
Rating: G
Pairing(s)/character(s): Eileen Prince (& Tobias Snape)
Challenge: Pure-blood Prince fest. My prompt was #63, "photograph".
Summary: In November 1959, Tobias Snape gets it into his head to take a photograph of his wife.
Warnings: none whatsoever.
Notes: I signed up for art, but ended up writing a 100-word drabble alongside it :).

November

When he entered the house whistling, Eileen groaned. He had fixed the thing, as he had said he would. She knew there was no escape now.

“Go on, into the light with you!” Tobias ordered, triumphantly waving the old camera at her.

“Sentimental nonsense,” Eileen muttered; but she hoisted herself out of her chair, and pulled on a coat and hat against the crisp November cold.

Once outside, watching her husband fidget with the camera, she could not stop a faint smile of amusement from curling her mouth. Very well, then. But she refused to look at the stupid birdie.

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Comments

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The window worried me most, and I looked at a lot of windows in the street to try and find out how I should depict the glass. Now, glass is very tricky because it reflects as well as lets you look through. I chose reflection, (the thing that stood out to me most as I looked around), because I absolutely wanted to show Eileen's environment while still zooming in on her. The thing you can most call me to task for is not including Tobias in the reflection, but that was a conscious choice on my part; it would have ended up looking too crowded and take the attention away from what I wanted to stress. Likewise, if I'd shown the room's interior through the reflection, there would have been too much in the window.

I know - I'm always quick to throw realism out of the window for the sake of pretty simplicity :D...