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
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
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
[Incandescent Autumn ~ A layering of 2 drive-by photographs]
© Karen McRae, 2014
© Karen McRae, 2014
© Karen McRae, 2014
If there had been time…
The autumn as it teeters exquisitely between warm and cold, light and dark, sun and rain.
© Karen McRae, 2014
A September road trip, Part 2 ~ Coming & Going
There have been only subtle colour shifts in the trees and shrubs so far but the crisp autumn winds seem to be settling in and over the landscape. The autumn metamorphosis will be hastening now.
[Drive-by photographs made from a moving vehicle. *People sometimes ask if I make these images while driving and the answer is ‘no’ – This technique requires both hands and my full attention!]
© Karen McRae, 2014
draw and shoot 