Beverley J. Hanna - Digital Prints "Twice Shy"

While travelling through Northern Ontario, I passed through an area that had been burned over the previous year. Even though the area seemed at first to be completely desolate, when I stopped to investigate, I saw that in fact, there had been a lot of new little trees planted, and in among them were wildflowers which had self-seeded after the holocaust. I wanted to show both the devastation and rebirth with this image.

This digital collage is made up of several photos, and some image manipulation in Photoshop to create the smoke. The sky is from a photo of the California wildfires sent to me by a friend, combined with a photo I took of the reforestation area. I also included a butterfly, to illustrate how delicate is the environment we live in.