Soft Passages

November 30, 2018 | drawandshoot

(Sublime) Winter Light

December 22, 2016 | drawandshoot

thelightontheland2 — The delicate light after this morning’s snowfall.

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Expanding light ♥

The Snow Monster

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016 | drawandshoot

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While I was walking in the snowy, inky night.

(Things you only notice later…)

(spirit of ) Evergreens at Dusk

January 18, 2015January 19, 2015 | drawandshoot

during snowfall…

[Layered exposures, made with camera movement]

Karen McRae, 2015

It’s Better (and colder) In Real Life

January 8, 2015January 9, 2015 | drawandshoot

I can’t resist the call of the river, even at (especially at?) -25c. The way the cold transforms the landscape is always captivating and I especially love visiting the places where the water runs fast and manages to defy the freezing temperatures. It can be difficult to truly capture the majesty of the winter wonderland but perhaps that is part of what keeps me coming back.

Karen McRae, 2015

Winter Dance

November 17, 2014November 24, 2014 | drawandshoot

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.

Incremental Spring

April 1, 2014April 1, 2014 | drawandshoot

These little seed heads in my garden keep calling me back to look at them and I like observing their changes as they advance through the seasons and work their way out of the snow. Somehow they still hold a whisper of the faded colours of summer.

Spring is in no hurry, really, but under the trees there are finally circles of earth, damp and tarnished from the winter. These hopeful patches might hold a gentle robin or a few starlings jabbing hungrily at the ground, and today for the first time I am hearing the lovely lilt of a red-winged blackbird. We are grateful for any bits of spring that we find even if it is simply the incremental folding back of the snow or a few pussy willows breaking through their skins.

Below: The first pussy willows, a couple of weeks old now…

Ragged February Flowers

February 26, 2014February 26, 2014 | drawandshoot

After a bit of warmer weather a few days ago, I noticed some of the tiny seed heads from last year had managed to make their way up through the snow for some air. I think it will be a while before any more of them show their ragged little heads; we are back to winter and that snow is still thick over the earth. I like seeing how they change over the seasons so I took a few photographs this morning as we shivered together in the wind. Happily, they are still filled with little seeds of hope.