Looking through the windshield on a rainy afternoon …
I made some photographs outside of the car, too, but it was this view through wavering raindrops that truly caught my eye.
© Karen McRae, 2016
Through the Raindrops
Autumn Roadside, Two Ways
I think I prefer the charcoal-sketch look of the black and white images but the autumn colours are lovely at the moment.
© Karen McRae, 2016
Seasonal Rituals (2)
© Karen McRae, 2016
Seasonal Rituals
Observing the changes in the landscape. Shifts, slow and subtle, others without restraint. As much as I adore summer it is autumn (and winter) when I most love to make photographs.
© Karen McRae, 2016
Sketching the Landscape ~ A Summer Evening
Walking with a camera and etching trees into the velvet evening sky. The colours shift at the pace of each footfall and flush at every street light.
© Karen McRae, 2016
Birds of Summer (1)
Trip the Light Fantastic ***
Sketching the Spring Landscape
Camera play: Photographs made from a moving car using a ‘point and shoot’ camera (Olympus Tough TG4) and polarized sun glasses as an improvised filter. It’s not very green here yet but we are getting there.
(click on smaller images for a gallery view)
© Karen McRae, 2016
A Residual Winter Breath (2)
There was a small taste of spring here before winter came back to to say its goodbyes. The cold and strong winds of a few days ago have fashioned some icy sculptures along the river’s edge and on this quiet morning a thin layer of fresh ice was singing and straining under the stirring of a waking river. Later today we are promised snow and the landscape will transform temporarily yet again. As much as I find these transformations fascinating and lovely to photograph, I think I am quite ready for real spring. 
Below: click on image to open gallery view.
© Karen McRae, 2016
