The river’s edge, late afternoon
A starling in winter dress
The woods fully iced
After a quick succession of snow, freezing rain, and plummeting temperatures the sun came out and today everything was sparkling.
Karen McRae, 2015
The river in full snow and low light, last January (long exposure with camera movement).
Bare streets and coloured lights, today at dusk (long exposure with camera movement).
Karen McRae, 2015
We have lost the snow ~ the light of winter ~ so I went back to look at some photographs from last year and found these; images made at night while a gentle snow was falling. These are in-camera double exposures, the first exposure is a still frame with flash (to catch the snowflakes), and in the second exposure camera movement was used to ‘sketch’ in the landscape. I have shifted the colour somewhat to make them look as inky as the night felt.
Karen McRae, 2014
Drive-by pictures from last year – things are melting away here, it seems we will wait a while for more snow. Best wishes for the holidays wherever you are!
© Karen McRae, 2014
[A drive-by/flyby image, layered in post processing ~ sort of in the same vein as this]
© Karen McRae, 2014
Snowshoes and late afternoon.
[Just before the sun slipped its hands over the horizon it reached out for the undergrowth and the tiny transparent seed pods (wild mustard, maybe?) caught my eye as they were momentarily lit up like mini lightsabers. At first I dismissed these images but when I came back to them they seemed to have a real sense of the intimacy and magic of the woods in late day.]
© Karen McRae, 2014
Another one of those magnanimous birds of winter.
© Karen McRae, 2014
A place to return to when more snow is falling, or has fallen (soon). I love the unkempt wildness here.
© Karen McRae, 2014
It seems the river has been pitching itself against the shoreline in the cold and wind, frosting whatever it could manage to touch before its own edges are too frozen to move. Unfortunately, by the time I managed to get out the light was very dull, but at the moment there is new snow falling, and by morning the landscape will be transformed again. These fringes of the seasons can be so fleeting.
© Karen McRae, 2014
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