Sketching the landscape with photography. These photographs were made using a slow shutter speed and camera movement. Other than some minor level adjustments they are as the camera saw them.
Animate bar(k)odes: the data of the landscape.
© Karen McRae, 2013
© Karen McRae, 2013
It’s not just what you see but also what you hear. This water moving in the cold of winter, it is not soundless. There is music here.
Photographs of surface reflections on moving water from the series Surface, Submerge.
© Karen McRae, 2013
A day, lit differently, than the last.
Photographs of surface reflections on moving water from the series Surface, Submerge.
© Karen McRae, 2013
and have not been embellished.
In the Winter, the stories change – they are as slithy as the surfaces that show them.
Photographs of surface reflections on moving water from the series Surface, Submerge.
© Karen McRae, 2013
Another look at the diminutive winter garden composing itself on a window. Growing then withering. Vapourizing and reforming.
*Click on images to view sharper details of the window frost.
© Karen McRae, 2013
It seems unlikely, in the deep cold of winter, that sleeping branches could sprout tiny crystal leaves overnight, and yet…
Perhaps these little twigs are dreaming of spring.
© Karen McRae, 2013
These are the delicate details of frost growth on a window. It has since warmed up here significantly and these icy apparitions have now vapourized but when I look at these images I find they are suggestive of elaborate gardens and graceful trees, Chinese landscape paintings and dragons.
© Karen McRae, 2013
The ephemeral beauty of open water and very cold temperatures.
Water vapour rising and coating the nearby flora in thick frost.
Even the ice, struggling to form at the fringes, finds the air so cold it has coaxed downy feathers to grow on its surface for keeping warm.
Of course, there are more interesting and scientific explanations…here and here…
© Karen McRae, 2013
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