Yes, at the risk of furthering certain stereotypes of Canada and our nation’s capital, it seemed only fitting to end this series by publishing images of our Parliament under the cloak of last week’s ice storm. While some may prefer these in colour, I think, again, the black and white treatment suits the embattled limestone…
A Silver Sky ~ a study in black and white
To see the world with different eyes is to live differently. There is an incredible beauty to the snow, trees, and ice again a perfect and rich blue sky … which was on display when I took these, the next to last in my Ice Storm series. Yet to take away the colour of the…
Tails of Ice
Entranced by the colours of these warm ‘cattails’ … or ‘bull-rushes’ as we called them when I grew up. I still remember vividly the effect my childish hoarding of the fall rushes in my father’s shed had one warm day in spring when they all burst back to life and filled the shed and all…
Frozen in Time
As you can tell by this, the fifth in my series (a series that has lots of legs), I’m totally enthralled by what the Ice Storm did to transform the landscape and all that is in it. From the branches with which I started, to a stem of milk weed, to the branch of a…
Arrested Fruit
The fourth in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm. And, yes, more to come tomorrow….
Frozen Fir
The third in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm. Check back tomorrow for the next installment.
Ice “Rose”
The second in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm. Check back tomorrow for the next installment.
Captured Caught … Held
Captured caught and held — still within your embrace Frozen seconds bound together — my tears run cold Sky chained from white to grey — yearning I cannot bend Prisms imprison the daylight — my eyes search the twinkles Nature’s ballet cast in glass — I lay prostrate on your belly Unbroken fragility wrapped crystal…