Articles by Bo Mackison

Early Morning Raindrops

Raindrops

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Wabi Sabi in the Garden

Wabi-Sabi Elephant Ear Plant

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https://drbatayneh.com/clinic-services/ When suffering overwhelms me I will breathe in and leave an opening in this moment for the joy that lies just behind it.  ~ Philip Martin

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Shelter from the Sun

Shelter from the Sun

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Today is a day of catching-up.

go site Today is the day I stop procrastinating and finally cross off those two items on my to-do list that I write over and over every day. Today is laundry day and there are five piles of sorted laundry waiting for me. Today is scrub the kitchen floor day. Today is a quick weed the garden day. Today is clean out the refrigerator day.

Today I am embarking on my first afternoon of silence.

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enter site There will be noises from the neighborhood, birds chirping at the feeders, Jazz meowing to go in or out (wherever it is she isn’t at the moment is where she wants to be.) There is a building project several blocks away and I can hear the hammers pounding.

I have chores that have piled up, I will be busy.

https://hymnsandhome.com/thrifting-vintage/ I’m curious to see how mindful I can be of those activities — cleaning, laundry, sweeping, gardening. How hard will it be for me to concentrate on what I am doing for the next four hours?

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Cool Colors in the Garden

Cool Blues and Greens

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https://www.appliquecafeblog.com/raggy/ Every gardener knows that it is the very impermanence of the garden that makes it precious.
The beauty of the garden lies in its constantly changing nature,
in the waves of colors and shapes that constantly pass through it.

~ Philip Martin

I have been to Olbrich Botanical Gardens on four different occasions to photograph these same Elephant Ear Plants. Twice I have photographed the gardens at 8 to 9 a.m. The other two times I visited the gardens later in the morning – about 10 a.m. til almost noon. Each time I have come away with markedly different photographs even though I am 1) using the same camera, lenses, and equipment including a tripod, 2)  shooting mostly in shaded areas or shot using light filtered through the plants — there has been an August bright sun with few clouds each time, and 3) I am shooting the same four or five plants.

Lighting is key in photography, and it is one of the joys and wonders I constantly work with. Light that is perfect one moment, disappears the next. As a photographer, one must seize the moment, there is no going back.

When I downloaded the photos to the computer from my last photoshoot, I was surprised to see such pronounced blue tones in the background plant. And even a few purple hues on a small part of the plant in the left lower area. The light green stem against the other deeper colors added the contrast needed to keep this from being a photograph of a bunch of foliage. And the added features of the patterns of lines and the plants’ textures are hard to beat.

A Zen sort of photograph, I can get lost in all those colors and textures.

Sure am having fun visiting these plants just about every day. Too bad they live on the other side of town!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is spending as many mornings as possible in the gardens. Prime garden time in Wisconsin and the gardens are full of treasures.

Seeking Light

Seeking Light

Seeking Light © 2011 Bo Mackison

We never care for the present moment.
We are so foolish that we wander in times that are not ours
and never think of the only time that belongs to us;
We are so frivolous that we dream of the days that are not,
and thoughtlessly pass over the only one that exists.
We never live but hope to live;
and since we are always preparing to be happy
it is inevitable that we shall never be so.
~ Blaise Pascal

While walking down Willy Street on a very quiet Sunday morning – not only are many of the stores closed on Sunday, but the road had been under construction and barely passable for months. Now that there is at least one lane access to the entire street, most people still seem to be avoiding the area. Willie Street and area is a vibrant Madison community and Sunday morning is not the time to catch the action. I was after a different sort of neighborhood portrait however, and so the timing worked fine.

I will return to Willy Street a couple more times with photography my primary mission — once to catch some people action, and at night to catch the night lights (or night life…)

Willy Street is formally Williamson Street on all the maps and street signs, but that’s way too long to say, or write, repeatedly.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is walking up and down the streets of Madison – to see what she can see.