During my recent trip to Cape Breton I had the opportunity to go out on a lobster boat several times. The lobster fishing season in this particular area of Cape Breton runs from May 1st to the end of June. Generally, the boat leaves the wharf at 5:00 a.m.! Above:Lobster boats in Petit De Grat […]
There are many tucked away cobble and sandy beaches between the rocky outcroppings along the shorelines of Isle Madame. A visual feast of shifting textural beauty. Sadly, the lighthouses are being decommissioned and are slowly disappearing off the island, replaced by lit channel markers. A beautiful vista with a coastguard boat far off in the […]
Various shorelines in Chedabucto Bay, Cape Breton All images © Karen McRae
I am recently back from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. I have a lot of careful editing to do, the ocean and surrounding landscape captured my complete attention these past two weeks. I am just now glimpsing back at images of these recent memories. How could I ever really capture the majesty of the sea, […]
( So, I’m having trouble coming up with titles … ) This is the third entry (perhaps the last, for now) in a series of sea jelly photographs I’m exploring in black and white. I started looking at their forms for some drawings and found them interesting presented in monochrome. All of the sea jellies […]
(Sketched by a camera.) The gallery of images above are a series of macro photographs of a small juvenile Moon jelly from the genus Aurelia. As I mentioned in the previous post I am revisiting some older sea jelly images and shifting them to black and white because I like how the details and forms […]
I have many photographs of tiny sea jellies that I’ve been meaning to post. Simple studies of their beautiful forms and details. I find converting them to black and white emphasizes these details nicely and I like the way they almost look like drawings here. (Some of them are indeed working their way into drawings.) […]
The beautiful skull of a seal, from the shore of Cape Breton Island. I’m not sure what type of seal skull it is; perhaps a harbour seal or harp seal. More skulls on this blog can be found here and here, if you’re interested… © Karen McRae, 2013
Tomorrow, the first of July, we celebrate Canada Day and I was thinking about how fortunate I have been to recently travel to both the east and west coasts. It’s an expansive, diverse, and beautiful country, and I am grateful to live here. Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians, and if you live south […]
I’ve been examining some of the natural objects I’ve picked up over the last few months and I am always amazed at the extraordinary things that can be observed when one stops to really look. This is a collection of small but very different natural works of art, etched out by time and environment. This […]
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