A double exposure (the figure), water reflections and merged layers. You have to learn how to swim in all this rain…
© Karen McRae, 2013
A double exposure (the figure), water reflections and merged layers. You have to learn how to swim in all this rain…
© Karen McRae, 2013
draw and shoot 
Like a deep sigh…
A deep rainy sigh…?
Have a nice long weekend, Brenda! : )
Beautiful!
Thanks very much!
Reminds me o work my friend used to do.. Great great stuff. Out of my comfort zone for sure…
Thank you, Josh.
What is it that’s out of your comfort zone? Water? : )
Hahaha yes, eek! No, I’ve never been much of an artist in the sense that I like to find things nature made for me- I wouldn’t know where to start
It’s hard to improve upon nature!
Water is out of my comfort zone too…. stop the water!
But art came out of it, so it’s okay ❤
Darn incessant rain. I guess I can’t complain since the last 2 days were sunny but it’s been a very wet spring!
Thanks, Moofie!
Beautiful Karen!
I have left a link below for you to look at. it is the website of an old professor of mine who I deeply admire. her work is all portraiture shot through water (no double exposures). A lot of them are actually self-portraits, and those ones are my favorite. I hope you enjoy taking a look: http://www.laureljohannesson.com/
Thanks for the link, Jess, her work is beautiful!
I love the ‘Thirst’ series.
I love your impressionistic experiment.
Now you are invading Edgar Degas territory with much more cool
transparent sensuous expression. Very Beautiful.
Thanks very much, Yoshizen. I had fun making this while listening to the rain. I’m glad you like it!
Lovely image, Karen. You have a wonderful imagination. Do you know how lovely that looks to a parched Westerner?
Thanks, Judy. I know you could use some of our rain, it is lovely and green here and I don’t mind that at all.
Super like a ghostly Soul in the fluid of the here and now.
Thanks, Hanno.
Ballet in the rain, beautiful shot Karen!
Hi Patti, thank you!
love the shadowy feel….tree branches like lightning in the sky or under water….beautiful…
Grace and movement and color and light beautifully merged.
Beautiful
excellent work. I really like the fusion of the human body with nature.
Simply gorgeous, Karen. I hope you swim well. 🙂
Another attention grabbing image. Superb.
Humm it looks like it may be you
Love it!!! 🙂
Such a fabulous picture Karen. I like this very much indeed. 🙂
What joy I always feel when I notice an email from your blog in my mailbox.. the excitement is realised with this shot of a mermaid skimming along the bottom of the lake.. just gorgeous Karen.. you have excelled yourself again..
Wow, this is amazing. Wonderful image, Karen!
Stunning image Karen – as someone else said always wonderful to see a new post from you – I love the double imaging it is something I try to capture in drawing but not very successfully – you have achieved it colour, light and movement – I could say my envy but I just enjoy looking too much. Thank you.
Karen, we are in the midst of a heat wave of sorts. This image is cooling and welcomed!
Very painterly, dreamy. Masterful, as usual.
It feels good getting lost in it.
Thank you Karen!
Definitely summery! Very cool.
That poor woman. RIP
She’s still breathing…
Like the lady in the lake? A friend of mine recently said that a woman waiting around in a body of water giving out swords is no form of governance. I have to agree.
Is your friend’s name Dennis by any chance?
And now the dancer swims. Beautiful.
Bonjour Karen ,
Limpide est clair en soi , ce beau reflet prend sens ,
Au fil de différences , dont la nuance au delà ,
Unit en l’arbre roi , deux bras fuyant l’enfance ,
Pour une nouvelle alliance , sur les rives de la foi.
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NéO~
~
Amitié 😉
soooooo fantastic….awesome
She reach for the tree top. The tree top reach for her. I believe she got it, or it got her. She’s safe.
The picture represent a wonderful play on perception of direction and dimension.
Delicately complex, poetically beauty. It gives great pleasure to look at. And the northern blue is just amazing!
Wow. 🙂
Beautiful image, Karen, and thank you for explaining something of your techniques – it really is helpful, giving me ideas, which is not something I’ve found a lot with many others’ blogs. Adrian
impressionism at its best!
What a great image! Dream material!
A beautiful picture.
Aaaaaahhh…
Wonderfully done Karen!
What a great response to mizzle, drizzle and downpours: beautiful, instinctual, visual poetry.
I find this one exquisite and inspirational. And, hey, no rain, no rainbows…
Karen,
Love this image. It’s just beautiful! I can just imagine how it would look if enlarged. The whole concept of the water, trees and woman combines perfectly. A wonderful image to behold.
Amazing! I could frame this and put it on the wall. 🙂
So beautiful!! How do you do it?
stunning~
Absolutely gorgeous! I love this image…
Wonderful!
Beautifully imagined.
Masterful.
This is lovely Karen, such a sense of lightness and freedom.
Gorgeous work, Karen. You’ve captured your model and the surrounding landscape w/ such a lovely, ethereal feeling. I share your reactions also re: all this rain!
So Gorgeous. I feel like peeling back the layers of this piece to see what each layer reveals.
wonderful piece
Stunning work here Karen!
Very cool shot…love the abstract nature of it.
Enchanting image, Karen. Love how the arms and branches join together in the centre of the frame.
Amazing ! And so beautiful Karen 🙂
Beautiful work, Karen. Love how the hands meet the branches in the centre of the frame.
With all the talk about rain drowning is the feeling I get of this photograph. It’s a good one though.
Double exposures keep on calling my name, for a year or two now, but my camera won’t allow. Maybe I will have to go back to one of the dusty film cameras and see if I can get them to do it.
I hope you do that! I’ve been meaning to shoot some film too.
I do love the surprises that double exposures bring, and the challenge of trying to figure out how things will layer.
It seems very complicated, the seeing in advance part. Have you seen those film swap websites where people shoot a roll of film and then send it to another person that shoots over it? Some terrific results. I think redscaling is part of their process, not one I have a clue about.
I have seen some of that work, the results are quite amazing! Yes, I don’t know anything about that either but it would be interesting to do a little more research.