An image from a photographic series layering the ephemeral (withering flora) and the enduring (ancient fossils). This image is an in-camera double exposure. You may recognize the form of the orchid from the previous post.
© Karen McRae, 2013
An image from a photographic series layering the ephemeral (withering flora) and the enduring (ancient fossils). This image is an in-camera double exposure. You may recognize the form of the orchid from the previous post.
© Karen McRae, 2013
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Beautiful, Karen. I do recognize the orchid yet I can also see a bird flying…
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I was wondering if anyone would notice the bird – I think it might be a chickadee!
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This is an artistic and creative image Karen. Well done.
Thank you, Phil.
Beautiful !
Thank you, Yoshizen.
A beautiful merging of sedimentary ghosts.
Sedimentary ghosts – what a great phrase! Thank you, Elena.
So beautiful Karen and so creative. 🙂
Thanks, Adrian.
I saw the bird 🙂 I just didn’t know it was a real one! Clever 🙂
Oh, I didn’t mean to insinuate it was a real bird! It’s not – I just thought it looked very much like a chickadee. : )
🙂 I thought you’d photoshopped one in! Uncanny then 🙂
Always Amazing Karen!
Thank you very much, Shari!
how do you develop these? its not film is it?
You are right, it’s not film. Some digital cameras allow you to take multiple exposures in-camera through a setting in the menu.. My camera will allow double and triple exposures. What kind of camera do you have?
🙂 an amateur one. canon s100. but i like to carry it with me everywhere like work or shopping and a big one just wont do
I don’t think you can do double exposures with that camera…
Structural form, texture and a bird to boot! Lovely! 🙂
Thanks, Steve! It’s not actually a real bird, but there it is…
Really beautiful. For some reason, I see Mary Poppins plummetting to earth, having let go of her umbrella- tailcoats flapping behind her in the wind.
That’s a fun interpretation! Thanks for your comment.
What a fine balancing act – the plant retains its delicacy despite becoming a monument. This is really beautiful, Karen.
Thank you, Richard. It is a bit of a balancing act technically speaking; Each exposure is carefully considered so that the flower form doesn’t just appear to be a shadow. It’s a lot of trial and error, but I like the idea of it.
I am so glad to see someone take photography further and explore what can be done. These touch memory and mortality in their mood and execution. A breath of fresh, cold air.
A lovely comment, Judy. Thank you! I never get tired of trying to find new ways to look at things – I’m happy you like the explorations.
Wow, such a stunning image, Karen.
Lemony, thank you. : )
a brilliant creation! Great work as always!!
I’m glad you like it, Mimo. Much thanks!
Stone, wood, fossil and leaf all mingled somehow..beautiful
Thank you, Cath. Everything integrated…everything connected…
Strength and weakness. Weakness is always best: we are born supple, but strength and brittleness go hand in hand with death.
Beautifully stated. Thank you.
It’s what I thought of when I saw your post, but I shouldn’t take credit for it though. It’s a paraphrase of something the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky said in his book about the cinema–
Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant. But when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win. Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Gosh! How did you do that? It’s aged a million years …! 🙂
A little (digital) magic. I can do in-camera double exposures with my particular camera. It is endlessly fun.
Uncanny how it looks like it has a bird tucked into the plant as if in a nest and at the same time as if it is all bird taking off to fly away …
Desconosco este tema por completo pero supongo que es fascinante Saludos
Wow!! Amazing! Incredible double exposure 🙂
I think this is lovely, and it has certainly got everyone thinking beyond ‘photo of an orchid’! I must confess, I could not ‘see’ the bird, probably because I can ‘see’ a swan in the top half of the image and this is overriding my impressions.
Gorgeous, Karen!
Cheers
John
Such a rich texture, so warm, to me…very comfortable, Karen.