Reflections on a spring landscape. From the series Surface, Submerge.
© Karen McRae, 2018
reflections
Frayed Edges of Winter
The lovely underbelly of ‘lace ice’ reflected in the creek. The seasonal shifts have begun.
(Click on small images for gallery view)
© Karen McRae, 2016
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
Things Don’t Always Make Sense
A discernible fish tale. And a balding house reflected in its own ‘moat’ – who could resist such a structure? The rest is (Photoshop) history…
© 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
What the Water Sees 3
The underbelly of migration. A blue heron that has long since left, layered with surface reflections of the autumn creek.
© Karen McRae,2013
What the Water Sees Too
Surface reflections and a slippery fish …
© Karen McRae, 2013
Inside, Outside
© Karen McRae, 2013
~When the Wind Holds Back its Breath~
In the stillness there are things to be seen that disappear when breathing resumes.
If you lie down on this quiet lake ~ put your ear to the cool surface ~ and look to the shore, this is what you would find. These ancient totems perpetually drawn and re-drawn by rock, wind and wave.
These creatures that are both there and not there. Embodied by both solid and liquid.
They are like the spirits of the land, I think. Reminding me of the people who first paddled these lakes, first walked this land, and lived in balance with the earth.
[All these images are (rotated) reflections on water, made during a canoe trip to
Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario.]
© Karen McRae, 2013
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