Reflections and reflections.
© Karen McRae, 2016
multiple exposure photography
Singing Sands
A September road trip, Part 1 ~ 
It’s hard to think of a more beguiling name for a place than Singing Sands. Who could resist going when you find those words on a map? It’s here where the great Lake Huron breathes its cool water in and out, over the sands and the expansive fen, pushing and pulling like a small tide. Taking and leaving. Creating a landscape of rich and diverse flora and great beauty and peacefulness.
[Multiple exposures – some with camera movement – and layers of the landscape. Images made at Singing Sands (Dorcas Bay) in Bruce Peninsula National Park]
© Karen McRae, 2014
Full Bloom
A profusion of Queen Anne’s Lace in the August fields.
[Multiple exposures of the umbels with the first image layered with a drive-by photograph. Interestingly, the modern carrot is a domesticated cultivar of this plant which is also known as a wild carrot, Daucus carota]
© Karen McRae, 2014
Spring Shield
This is a place I’ve been wanting to photograph for a while but I’m usually here with a bike and my mountain biking ‘ability’ is not really compatible with safely transporting a camera and riding over rocky terrain. On the weekend I decided to walk the trails instead but the sky was a heavy grey and the light seemed uninspiring for making images.
This Canadian Shield landscape is always beguiling to be in, though, with its lichen-covered granite undulating gracefully between ponds and wooded areas. The images that I liked the best (and have posted here) turned out to be double and triple exposures.
The landscape is still mostly a profusion of lovely browns but if you put your ear to the ground you can hear that the earth’s heartbeat has quickened.
[A series of in-camera multiple exposures]
© Karen McRae, 2014
draw and shoot 