sea change

July 4, 2013 | drawandshoot

Long Days and Tall Grass

June 21, 2013August 8, 2014 | drawandshoot

(Untitled. Oil, graphite and Conté on Mylar)

It’s the first day of summer here and it feels like a true summer day with gently swaying grasses in the sunshine and strange insects in the garden.

[The first image is a painting/drawing in progress (I never know whether to call my pieces paintings or drawings – I guess they are both) and the other two images are photographs made with camera movement.]

The Rain Becomes You

June 13, 2013 | drawandshoot

A damselfly that tells fortunes…?

I think this might be a small weevil(?) of some sort, managing to hang on to the underside of a leaf with the weight of all that water.

We have had a fair share of grey and rain around here. The earth is well watered, and you could disappear in the tall green grasses. It is easy to gripe about the greyness of it all, but when the sun returns you are reminded that each drop is a transient gem.

World Oceans Day, June 8th

June 7, 2013June 28, 2013 | drawandshoot

I’m hoping this image can stand on its own because I’m sort of at a loss to describe the importance of the ocean. But you already know.

World Oceans Day Worldwide
World Oceans Day Canada
World Oceans Day Sheds Light on our Blighted Seas

The Birds and the Bees …

June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 | drawandshoot

When I was out taking pictures this morning I came across this swirling water composition created by pollen grains on the surface of a little lake. As the breeze pushed the pollen grains along the lily pads made a graceful interception.

There were lots of little insects working away at pollinating the nearby flowers and in turn many birds on the hunt for insects!

A quick post in honour of World Environment Day (A little late in the day but my to-do lists seem to be longer than the days).

The Dunes

June 3, 2013September 16, 2014 | drawandshoot

This is one of my favourite places. There is a little sliver of Lake Ontario in the first image, and the sand and dunes you see here are part of the worlds largest freshwater sandbar. I remember clearly the first time I put my feet in this sand. It was the summer I was 16. That’s a while ago.

The Water Garden 2

May 30, 2013June 28, 2013 | drawandshoot

Double exposures; the surface, and things submerged.

This Side of Winter

May 25, 2013May 25, 2013 | drawandshoot

These are the last of the little seedheads from my garden that I have been documenting through the seasons. Somehow a few of them survived the weight of winter relatively intact. I had left them in the garden so I could photograph them on this side of winter.

These little remnants of flowers have been through many transitions over the last few months. They have been frosted, covered in freezing rain, and buried under snow.
I have photographed them in different light where they have taken on the colours of what is around them. I haven’t edited the photographs much at all, the tones you see in each set are from the surrounding growth .