Reflections on a spring landscape. From the series Surface, Submerge.
© Karen McRae, 2018
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Moss Banks at Water’s Edge
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Camera sketches of the emerging landscape before the snow comes back tomorrow. Sigh.
© Karen McRae, 2018
Last Songs of October
(Pale memories from 1 year ago but they were hoping to belong here.)
© Karen McRae, 2017
After the (Freezing) Rain
An ice crowned seed head from my garden.
Tiny icicles on the brink of melting away.
Mosaic patterns forming on the flora as the ice crowns begin to surrender to the warmth of the sun.
How quickly we can shift here from powdered snow, to rain, to freezing rain and back again.
© Karen McRae, 2017
Birds Falling like Leaves off Trees
The first real snow came yesterday and in late afternoon a large flock of starlings were braving the wet snow and wind, grazing the tops of trees and falling like leaves from branches.
(I hope the GIF isn’t too annoying, it would be nice to be able to click on it and make it stop! Oh well…)
© Karen McRae, 2016
This entry seems to fit well with the WordPress Daily Post Prompt Rearrange.
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
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
