This photograph, named Closing Up a Summer Cottage 1957, shows how a family is packing up is leaving their summer vacation home.  This picture was taken in Long Island.  A mount was used to take this picture.

The thing that probably caught my attention was the intensity of the color.  Even during this time, color was this intense.  In addition, it was taken in Long Island.  I felt some sort of connection to this, since I lived in Long Island.

To me, this isn’t the closing of a cottage.  It is instead the opening to their regular life.  They had just spent a summer in the cottage, so they are returning back to life.  If it was closing of summer, then it wouldn’t happen ever again, but since it’s a summer cottage, the family definitely visits it every year.  Thus, the context should be opening.