A profusion of Queen Anne’s Lace in the August fields.
[Multiple exposures of the umbels with the first image layered with a drive-by photograph. Interestingly, the modern carrot is a domesticated cultivar of this plant which is also known as a wild carrot, Daucus carota]
© Karen McRae, 2014
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Stunning! It is also called ‘Meadowsweet’ in the UK. It reminds me of my childhood summers. Ann
I think Meadowsweet is a bit different from Queen Anne’s Lace, but certainly the way these (somewhat abstracted) images look it could be easily confused. Theses do look like Meadowsweet!
Thanks for your comment, Ann.
I stand corrected. I checked it out to see where my confusion was, and discovered that Meadowsweet is also known as Queen of the Meadow. I got my queens mixed up!
s p e c t a c u l a r, as always! Great, Karen!
Merci, Fabio! : )
We have Queen Anne’s Lace here in the dry fields near the coast. You’ve aptly captured their improbable sense of being. Gorgeous.
I am grateful for every rainfall that takes place here when I think about the crushing drought happening in your state. I think it would be difficult to live in such a parched landscape, always thirsting.. It’s amazing how certain flora and fauna can manage to survive. Thank you, SummerLee.
Really nice effects.
Thank you, David.
Very fine indeed.
Thank you, KC.
Very dreamy!
Always interesting to me how you manage to make art using different processes.
The result is engaging even if the reason why escapes me. Just nice to look at, I suppose.
I love carrot greens. They do go with Queen Anne’s lace!!! Nice wistful work. Love it!!!!!
Blowing in the wind – beautiful! It’s a plant that adapts itself to diverse growing places – and lots of aesthetic treatments, too, right?
I like both two versions. I guess, from original photo of the bloom to create those images, you are having an incredible sense of creativity. Beautiful !
You create magic Karen! These are so beautiful! 🙂
They are wonderful, Karen.
Queen Anne’s Lace is part of my childhood memories – the processed images convey the movement of time & space beautifully. 🙂
Many thanks for dropping by my blog. Much appreciated.
This is absolutely beautiful Karen 🙂
Diaphanous lace that would make Anne blush… my favorite ubiquitous prairie plant!
I just love Queen Anne’s lace. These are waving in a divine breeze.
Mmmm. Lovely, Karen, especially the first one. I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Queen Anne’s Lace was mentioned there. I’d never heard of it before and now here it is again.
I like how these look like paintings. Very lovely!
I sigh. Absolutely gorgeous.
I love the ethereal nature of these photos.
Beautiful. Like isolating a segment from an impressionist painting. Visual Ode to a Carrot Relative. The title is a little long, but it will have to do!
Now I’m thinking of new words to Dylan’s Queen Jane….Won’t you come see me Queen Anne’s Lace.
As beautiful and lush as always.
Thanks Karen.
The spirit that runs through your work is always with me lighting my way.
What a beautiful thing to say to a fellow artist. Your comment is a gift, Marcelo, I thank you. x
Scuffed, scraped beauty. Like frozen sense impressions. Beautiful.
Wonderful! Visual poems.
I love these
Love these photos: light, airy, mysterious, out of the ordinary, beautiful, haunting.
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GREAT 🙂
these are wonderful Karen
love the painterly quality of these – queen anne’s lace is one of my favorite wildflowers. : )
Beautiful photos…the first one feels as if I could lay down in the middle of this field and watch the world go by with a smile on the my face. Movement and motion, but with this great underlying feeling of calm. Great work Karen.