Passing glimpses of yesterday’s snowfall – the first of the autumn. This morning the temperature has been creeping up and the short-lived snow has been replaced by rain.
[These images were taken from a moving car – lazy, I know…]
© Karen McRae, 2013
Passing glimpses of yesterday’s snowfall – the first of the autumn. This morning the temperature has been creeping up and the short-lived snow has been replaced by rain.
[These images were taken from a moving car – lazy, I know…]
© Karen McRae, 2013
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Good morning, Karen – your cold air is heading my way – forecast says maybe a few snow showers early Tuesday – ahh the season is upon us- love the last photo especially – could be a watercolor painting. Enjoy your day – K
Hi Kathleen, yes it seems to come around so quickly. Enjoy your snow showers! Thanks for your comment. : )
Karen, the winter may come, it looks great! 🙂
It was just a temporary snow, for now. Still not cold enough to stick around but pretty all the same. Thanks, Dina!
Dreamy… contemplative… ethereal … very nice… please keep your hands on the wheel while shooting. 😉
Thanks very much, the first snow is always lovely even if it feels too soon. Mostly melted away now…
I was a passenger, I don’t make photographs while driving.
Thought so… just teasing, and, by way of confession, I have been known to take photos while driving… I know… I know… Fall and Winter are my favorite seasons… bring on the snow!
Beautiful!! 🙂
Rahul
Thank you!
Very nice! I especially like the last two with the blurred foreground although the third one has great texture.
{Hope you weren’t driving though.}
Thank you, Mic. I should really have gone out on foot but I didn’t make it out.
I can assure you I was a passenger! No driving and shooting for me…
beautiful photos!!
xx Vera & Rony
Thanks very much! : )
Love these. Very cinematic, *moving pictures* – love the texture and dated feel you’ve created. Almost a ‘worn’ feel to the surface. Like a feeling of what was. Which is interesting because the ‘then’ was almost ‘now’ but you’ve made it feel more archival. Beautiful.
Hi Steven, I guess that falling snow is sort of like a veil, shifting time and colour. Thank you!
anything but lazy… full of motion/emotion
I felt just a little guilty for not making it out to play in the first snowfall. Thanks, Anthony.
Amazingly good! Just wondering what you do when not lazy. 😉
I travel by foot! Thanks very much much Vassilis, I’m glad you like them.
I think you should give some pointers on how to take these driveby shootings. Always lovely
Sure Brandt, and thank you.
I always use my camera on manual when I’m making these – I play around with the settings until I find a good combination – for example the last photograph’s settings were f/10 for 1/13s. ISO 200. And then, as things are moving by that interest me I ‘track’ them with the lens. This results in the things that are being tracked as having the most amount of focus. It works best with the part of the landscape that is not too far away, I think.
The sometimes opposing movements in a frame come from the car moving forward and the camera moving with the landscape (opposite direction).
I hope this explains it a bit. Have fun! : )
So you were driving while taking pictures?? 😉
Nice pitures Karen, again. I love the first and the last ones.
No not driving, just a passenger playing with the camera. : )
Thank you, Meho!
Your moving car shots are wispy, wispier than your other work which is lovely and wispy in and of itself!
Wintery weather makes everything look wispier, I think. Thanks, Hollis!
🙂
No lazy at all, instead quite effective. The last two transport.
Much thanks, Elena. I was regretting not making it out on foot, though.
what you’re doing recently with focus is potently tremulous in my opinion – unsettling and reorganizing – in other words, effective. I appreciate your work so much
Lazy can be beautiful too – they look like frenzied drawings, made in a rush to capture the force of the wind.
Scoured and cold-looking. I love this technique. Here in Banff it’s cold and like Narnia with snow and pines.
Ethereal, to be sure.
Beautiful and its always amazing how you achieve so much in your work with such a simple yet lovely color palette. The cold weather blast has indeed crept up to the east coast US where I live – I’m feeling quite the chill as I admire your photos, Karen!
This is my first visit, some friends recommended I take a look. Captivating; I just started exploring. It was a pleasure to find you.
brilliant lazyness!
The moving vehicle lends a nice effect, Karen.
Perfect lazy, got the snow feeling.
No idea why, but each seems like a frame from an old movie. Excellent vision!
Beautiful pictures with the always hot and cozy atmosphere despite the snow and cold. Nice pitures Karen.
Why do you call yourself lazy? You were inspired by something you saw and took action. I think images 3 and 4 are successfully evocative. Good job.
I live in hope that one day I will be able to use colours to express my feelings, in the meanwhile I do try to learn from artists like you
Lovely, Karen. Good to be back on WP and see your work. These give me the feeling of reminiscing about days gone by. Thank you.
ahhh so this is the snow you were referring to. Karen, they’re beautiful images. Stay warm 🙂
Snow already! The year whizzes past. You get a different feeling with these, the detachment that has to come from you flying past in a car enhances the autumnal feeling. Very delicate and ephemeral.
I really love these Karen. The muted browns are gorgeous. It’s a reminder to me to embrace the season, it has a lot to offer!
Beautiful pictures, inspirational!
Really a wonderful laziness !! Fantastic motion and soft colours in every images.
I love how atmospheric your work is, Karen. When I take photos from a moving car, they end up becoming muddled streaks of colour, whereas your photographs contain lively movement.
Wow! You’ve really succeeded in transmitting the cold. Great set.
I loved how blurred this looks!
NOT lazy – and I like the way you used the telephone wires. As always, the silvery tones bring me in too.
What a beaty! Im going to winterlandscape tomorrow by car. Maybee I do like you..:-)
“so much elsewhere unsettling each surface” – Laurie Scheck
Your images are always stunning, very beautiful Karen 🙂
I think we are similar in some way
Hi Emil,
Yes, I had a look at your work, I see what you mean. Kindred spirits perhaps. Thanks for the comment.
Karen
Not lazy at all, as you have produced a wonderful effect. Beauty is all I see. A
Not lazy, but rather (subjectively) real. This is how we see from a moving vehicle, or at least how YOU saw in these particular moments. I love images that capture the feel of motion, rather than merely freeze it.
These images seem delicate paintings. They are ver, very nice.