Another one of those magnanimous birds of winter.
© Karen McRae, 2014
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Tangled
A place to return to when more snow is falling, or has fallen (soon). I love the unkempt wildness here.
© Karen McRae, 2014
The Jagged Edges of Winter
It seems the river has been pitching itself against the shoreline in the cold and wind, frosting whatever it could manage to touch before its own edges are too frozen to move. Unfortunately, by the time I managed to get out the light was very dull, but at the moment there is new snow falling, and by morning the landscape will be transformed again. These fringes of the seasons can be so fleeting.
© Karen McRae, 2014
Sketches in Silver and Gold
Just a couple of days with warmer temperatures and the earth has gobbled up all the snow. It won’t be long before the landscape is blanketed in white again but in the meantime we are back to silver and gold. I made these photographs yesterday from the passenger seat of a car. The skies were a heavy grey but I love these moody colours of autumn.
© Karen McRae, 2014
Sketching Snowfall at Twilight
The twilight comes so early. The origami days will keep folding up tighter for another month. A month before the light begins to stretch back out. And with a bit of snow on the landscape it doesn’t seem so long, really.
[These photographs were made at dusk by ‘sketching’ the landscape using long exposures and camera movement.]
© Karen McRae, 2014
Winter Dance
Here we go. The first real snow came today. I couldn’t resist going out to watch the landscape brighten as the snow sifted down. It wasn’t too cold, either. Just warm enough for fingerless mittens and standing still while the chickadees dance at your fingertips.
© Karen McRae, 2014
Dark Leaves
Even as I was in the car driving I could hear the lot of them. They were congregated across the high trees. Arguing. Falling like dark leaves from the branches as they took turns plundering the cornfields. Tiny seeds in greedy black beaks.
[A flock of common fabulous grackles layered with a multiple exposure of trees]
© Karen McRae, 2014
Ingress
© Karen McRae, 2014
Variation of Gamma Ray Intensity During Personal Eclipse *
These strange spectral reflections occasionally appear on the wall where a painting hangs in our kitchen; one day I took the painting down, donned a lead apron and stepped into the light (actually, I don’t have quick access a lead apron but the reflected light seems to angle off the microwave so perhaps I should have)…
*A (non-scientific) phenomenon only occurring as the light shifts into late autumn.
© Karen McRae, 2014
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