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Coleus and Zinnia – Study in Composition, Texture, and Color

Coleus and Dahlia - Study in Composition, Texture, and Color

https://bettierose.co.uk/307_baker_fotor/ Coleus and Zinnia © 2011 Bo Mackison

Buy Clonazepam Online Overnight A couple of days ago I took an hour’s walk through Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison. I had exactly one free hour between appointments. As I drove past the gardens, I could see from the street that there were deep colors and textures throughout the gardens. I did not need to make much of a conscious decision — seemed as if my car naturally swung into the lot and parked in its familiar parking space.

follow url Because I bring my basic photo gear wherever I travel, my camera was on the passenger seat, ready for action. Considering I had exactly an hour — no dawdling — I took only my 12 inch diffuser in case I needed to shield a flower or two from the mid-day light. Though I typically shoot at least some of my photos in the gardens with my macro lens, my 50 mm prime was already on the camera, and so I made a quick decision to work differently — I would walk through the gardens and capture more compositions, more textures, more paths and bridges for some metaphor projects I’ve been planning, and  fewer macro-photographs. I tucked my tripod through my camera bag loop, just in case, and off I went.

Order Valium Without Prescription Since I carried different gear, I looked for different sorts of photographs — that felt very freeing — and I felt as if I were seeing through “new” eyes.  When I walked near this grouping of coleus, zinnias, and other late blooming summer flowers, the colors, textures, and composition caught my attention  — and refused let go!

http://www.ztpackaging.com/laminated-bags/ I was quite transfixed by the variety of purples and oranges, the crinkled leaves in contrast to the long, twisting petals, and there were even a few daisy types for that touch of simplicity.

Buy Soma Overnight It wasn’t until I took these photographs into the studio early this morning that I really connected with many of the of the details in this photo. I wasn’t happy with a rather dark clump of leaves in the lower right corner of the photograph – it pulled my attention towards the corner, but there wasn’t much visual interest. I experimented, investigated, curious to see what would happen as I worked with the Nik Color Efex software. When I applied the Infrared Film setting to the photo, I loved the contrast of the B/W mixed with the bright flowers.

click The composition stood out, the contrasting colors took on added depth against the partly grayscale background, and the textures popped right off the screen.

https://www.beyondagencyprofits.com/media-booking/ I thought I would share this photo — a departure from many of the botanicals I shoot.

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source Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is investigating post-processing techniques with Nik Software and perhaps having way too much fun to call her  photography to-do list for today “work”.

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Sunflower Field in Polaroid

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https://www.completerehabsolutions.com/contact/ Same sunflower field that I posted yesterday, but this photo was post-processed using Nik Color Efex Pro 3™ and the Polaroid setting.

Pregabalin 300Mg Buy Online I can remember the first time I took a photo with a Polaroid Land Camera, circa 1969. A close up portrait of a newborn cousin.

https://bettierose.co.uk/patricks-barn/ The snap-snap-clicks, while the internal workings did whatever they did, then the count down until the hidden chemicals worked their magic, and out popped the photo.

see url The adults fussed, “Do be careful. Don’t touch the paper.” And we three cousins were grubby-handed and elbowing each other — ten, twelve, and fourteen-year-olds– pushing each other for the first look. Moments later, none of us would admit whose thumb print landed on the photograph, square on the baby’s face.

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follow We denied our guilt repeatedly throughout the afternoon and evening, and begged our uncle, the one who never did have any kids, for just one more try. But he had whipped that Polaroid out of our hands, packed it back into its original cardboard box, and locked it in the trunk of his car, deaf to our protests and apologies.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is practicing new post-processing techniques with the Nik Software. Might be one more sunflower photo in the works.

Partly Sunny, with Sunflowers

Sunflower Field

Partly Sunny, with Sunflowers © 2011 Bo Mackison

Another view of the Pope Farms sunflower field.

Photographed at Pope Farms Park, a city of Middleton park located five miles west of Madison, Wisconsin.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She has been working (playing) on the computer, practicing new post-processing techniques with the Nik Software. Still more sunflower photography to come — sunflowers like you’ve never seen in “real” life! Stay tuned!

Sunflower Fields, Forever

Sunflower Field and Rock Wall

Sunflower Field © 2011 Bo Mackison

Located five miles west of Madison, Pope Farms Park was farmland deeded to the city of Middleton in 1999 for a historical park and prairie restoration. A stone wall, dating from the early 1900s, separates a picnic area and the prairie from a huge sunflower field.

The park, in western Dane County, is on the eastern fringes of the Driftless Area, a large geological area.

Much of the Driftless Region is in southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. The term “driftless” refers to the land which escaped the “drifting” of the last glacier — the Wisconsin Glacier — about 100,000 years ago. Deep valleys and high ridges are predominant, and there is no drift, or debris, which the retreating glacier deposited in other regions of Wisconsin.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She spent several hours wandering in the sunflower field. More sunflower photography is coming!

Waving to Autumn

Waving to Autumn

Waving to Autumn © 2011 Bo Mackison

Though we are still firmly entrenched in summer, and have the record heat waves across the country to prove it, signs of change are easy to find. This prairie, only a few weeks ago awash with myriad colors of flowers, is now gradually turning flowers to seeds. The muted colors of autumn slowly replace the brights and bolds of summer. Hot, still days turn warm and breezy.

I feel as though I am waving “hello” as autumn approaches.

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Seeded Earth Photography and my “Garden Gallery” are headed to Baraboo, Wisconsin tomorrow, Saturday, August 13, 2011, where we are participating in the Baraboo Art Classic. The art fair is located in downtown Baraboo, on the Sauk County Courthouse Square. Hours are 9 am to 4 pm.

If you are in the Wisconsin Dells/Baraboo area, stop and say hello!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC.