The little nooks and crannies in the woods, and on the fringes.
All images © Karen McRae, 2012
The little nooks and crannies in the woods, and on the fringes.
All images © Karen McRae, 2012
draw and shoot 
Those mushrooms are amazing! 😉
The mushrooms are pretty cool, glad you think so, too!
Beautiful! Fun explorations.
It was fun, Allen. thank you.
This is a very cool topic for a short gallery. Your images are beautiful and very well composed. I love the focus in all of them. I need to get myself a macro lens! Thanks for sharing your beautiful work.
Nate
Nate, thank you very much. You will never regret getting a macro lens – a world of possibilities! I’m happy you stopped by.
From the corner of the eye-jaw dropping!
Jaw dropping, I love it! Thanks, Elena.
Bonsoir Karen ,
Ce Parcours par Essences , sous le Couvert de l’Onde ,
Offre en Visions un Monde , A Fleur d’Itinérances ,
Si Peu de Choses ont Chance , d’Eclore dans la Seconde ,
Ici la Terre Abonde , Offrant une Ronde aux Sens .
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NéO~
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Becs Hors Frontières 😉
NéO, Je ne l’aime la poésie vous sortirez d’ici, un petit cadeau!
Merci. 🙂
Karen
These are gorgeous Karen. So delicate and so beautifully composed. Fabulous series.
I’m glad you like this series, Chillbrook, thank you.
Great mystical images
Thanks, Lyle!
How gorgeous Karen..Alice in Wonderland stuff..you’ve really found a very unique way with your lens recently..loving it..
Yes, actually Cath, I did drink a little potion before I headed out to the woods… 😉 I might have fit in your doll house!
Thank you!
Wowwwwwwwwww, Karen!!
Aw, thank you Sophie! 🙂
Each and every one so magical!
I’m glad you think so, thank you!
More realistic than usual though, because of it, utterly surrealistic.
8th and 10th photos have mind blowing power, like a Zen painting
= could be a dog shit or the truth of the Dharma —– or both.
Ha, ha! Yoshizen, you do make me laugh!
Thanks for your comment! 🙂
Those blue-green fungi are a really striking colour. I’ve never seen any like that before. I love that little curl in the last one. It’s a bit like I feel when I emerge from dreams in the morning. A slow unfold into clarity.
They are cool, aren’t they? they are apparently quite common but you don’t often see them in fruit. The chlorociboria are interesting in that they stain wood green and this wood is sometimes used for wood working inlay.
I relate to the slow unfold into clarity!
Interesting. Oh, this reminds me I am wishing my book about the history of pigments back from where it is since it got borrowed three years ago …
You have such a beautiful, magical touch.
Thank you, Patti. That is a very kind comment!
These are all outstanding! The perfect backgrounds really help make them special Karen!
Thank you, Phil. I enjoy the backgrounds you get from shallow depth of field, it lends a little mystery!
Magical, indeed!! Lovely work!
Thank you very much, Sonja!
Lovely bokeh, great series!
Thank you, David!
Stunning photography. Some of the best I’ve seen. Ann
Ann, what an exceptionally kind comment. Thank you so much, I am humbled.
There are many photos which you’d have to give ten out of ten for, technically. Yet you feel that to the photographer, the subject is just another object. Yours convey your fascination and awe. They are almost like visible gasps! Technique is not allowed to dominate the subject matter. That’s what I feel anyway. Ann
Thank you again, Ann. I do sort of throw myself into the things I love and find fascinating. I’m glad that comes though.
those mushrooms are so beautiful and delicate!!!! I especially love the ones all in a row in what looks like a crack of bark?! Would love to draw them. Not sure if you were following my blog when I did this post… you might like it: http://naturesmyfriend.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/from-the-forest-floor/ Hope you are well!!! as always thanks for sharing your beautiful photographic visions!
Jessica, feel free to draw any of these if you would like, I’d love to see them reinterpreted by you.
Your mushrooms are terrific! Thank you.
I just love the shallow depth of field on these shots and the gorgeous muted colours.
Thanks so very much, David. I think these sorts of colour tones are the ones I’m most drawn to.
So beautiful, Karen…isn’t life so rich down there? Magical images…..
The forest floor is a bit magical! Thank you.
You are very welcome. 🙂
Magical, mystical, inspiring. Many thanks.
You are very welcome, thanks for your comment.
The forest floor, my favourite place! I love these beautiful photos. Thanks for showing us the details of the moss and lichens.
Anne, it is a wonderful place to spend time! I’m happy you enjoyed these images, sincere thanks!
Your incomparable skill with a camera is very inspiring. The gorgeous contrast between sharp and soft, dark and light make me want to take up my brushes again and paint.
Thank you so much for your words, I appreciate them. I hope you do take up your brushes!
Love them all! What a beautiful series. 🙂
Hi Inga, thank you!
Wonderful addition of green hues to the series! Absolutely gorgeous, Karen!
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I love the way in which you place the plane of focus exactly where you like it by tilting the lens relative to the focal plane. Lensbaby, i presume… ?
Another surprising, refereshing series. 🙂
Alessandro, thank you.
These are all taken with an ordinary macro lens, actually. I am just using the lens at different angles, and often the shallowest depth of field.
A Lensbaby would be interesting though, have you used one? I like the painterly effect I’ve seen from them.
No!!! Tiny blue mushrooms! How wonderful! Are they the ones that glow in the dark? They make the forest floor look like fairyland at night. 🙂
Hi Gigi, these don’t glow in the dark but that would be magical wouldn’t it? They are a gorgeous colour, I was very happy to come across them, as finding these little mushrooms is not that common!
Yes, beautiful! There were glow in the dark mushrooms in a wetland forest in Byron Bay, Aus. Pete took me there one night and it was amazing – little blue lights on the forest floor! It was his favourite place in the world. 🙂
Great series Karen, I’m not a fan of macro, but your interpretation of it stands out!
Your comment is very encouraging, Davide. Thank you so very much.
You have a gift for regularly leading us into a world of magic, mystery and, above all, beauty.
It is a beautiful world, Louis! Thank you, your comment is wonderful.
Amazing photos!!
Thank you!
whew
Hi Nathan:)
Delightful tempo moving through these images. Simply just ebbed and flowed.
Thanks, very much.
There’s a real feeling of imminence to these – of frozen significance. The colours are wonderfully rich and the light creamy – Autumn captured without the handcuffs of cliche.
“…without the handcuffs of cliche”, you write the best comments, Richard! Thank you. I suppose there is an imminence here…
Ahhh… sighing at the beauty..
I’m glad you are, Helen…
Karen, these belong in a beautiful story book about the magical forest 🙂
You could write the story, Marina…? 🙂
It just goes to show you can stay in your back yard and discover a always fascinating world. I love the last ones. I see them as paintings.
Carla, I like when photography crosses over into painting. It give me ideas! Thank very much. It’s true that sometimes you don’t have to go far to find things that are interesting.
stunning i love the rainbow of colours
Thank you!
Wow. wow. wow. Who would have noticed otherwise! 🙂 🙂
It’s like stopping to smell the roses, Nandini! 🙂
Thanks for the smiles.
These pictures are so absolutely gorgeous….!! Inspired to draw a mushroom now. Love the colors, the gentle tones, the shapes and oh, everything.
Hi Moofie, happy to inspire! Thanks very much.
Magical, breathtaking, gorgeous – love them all, Karen!
thanks so much, Karen!
as always, your work is subtle, sensitive and quite magical! Thank you for sharing Karen!
Thanks so much, Mimo, your words are always so encouraging!
You have found a l lot of jewels here, Karen.
There are lots of jewels in the forest, Bente! Thanks for looking!
Nice tight focus on these shots! 🙂
I’m quite into the macro shots these days…
Thanks, Richard.
<3, especially the 2nd one 🙂
Thank you, Cayce!
oh this is a great series! Where are these mushrooms located?
Hi Paintblotch, thank you.
These were taken in the woods just outside the Ottawa, ON Canada area.
Oh! I knew there was something familiar about those shrooms’ LOL! I’m canadian too —from Toronto originally. My brother lives in Ottawa…so I get out to that part of the province whenever I visit home. Yipeee! Awesome work drawandshoot 🙂
That’s very cool! 🙂
Thanks again.
tender and delicate and really lovely
Thanks very much!
You are a true artist!