Solitude in White

This image was shot in July, 2023. My best friend was riding her horse in a field and I asked her to stop for a minute so I could get a ‘portrait’ of them. I’ve been editing in On1 in its various iterations since it first became available decades ago. I created this composite using an interior background that I had to make it a more classical image. I had it printed at 16×24 on canvas as a gift for her and it now hangs proudly in her livingroom.
2023 was a very difficult year for both of us. Alison’s husband died 10 months before this photo was taken and then, while I was working on the editing for it, I learned that my (adult) son died by suicide in Vancouver. I live in New Brunswick and it was an awful shock as you can imagine. Photography and editing helped save my sanity.