© Karen McRae, 2017
The Little Buzz
summer
Sketching the Landscape ~ A Summer Evening
Walking with a camera and etching trees into the velvet evening sky. The colours shift at the pace of each footfall and flush at every street light.
© Karen McRae, 2016
Birds of Summer (1)
Rivière Coulonge
A series of images made while on a paddling trip on a section of the beautiful and storied rivière Coulonge, Quebec. Technically these photographs are quite ‘low quality’ but somehow I feel they hint at expressing some of those stories of the rivers’ past.
© Karen McRae, 2015
Underwater 2 ~ Swim
In the heat of summer I can think of nothing more luxurious than sinking into water.
[Photographs made at the same time as the images in the previous post. These images are also inverted in processing]
© Karen McRae, 2015
Field of View
(A ‘drive-by’ photograph with full-on summer flying by, as it tends to do.)
© Karen McRae, 2015
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
Night Light 2
Long exposures of fast-moving water at night. These photographs were made during a paddling/camping trip and although there were lots of stars in the inky sky there was no glowing moon, so in order to light the first and last images I ‘painted’ the slipping-by water with my headlamp and set the camera to make 30 second exposures. In the middle image you can see my paddling friends are lighting the rapids (and the fluttery bugs) with their own headlamps.
(Unfortunately, I didn’t have the camera set to raw mode when I made these photographs – poorly planned on my part – so the image quality is not that great…)
© Karen McRae, 2014
draw and shoot 