Awakening the Senses – A Photo-Heart Connection

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https://boxfanexpo.com/g83vst55i Happy are they who see beauty in modest places. ~ Camille Pissarro

Buy Valium Next Day Delivery Beauty in modest places? Yes.

https://vbmotorworld.com/q56ie2e I went for an early evening walk in downtown Tucson just before I left Arizona to return to the Midwest. I was in a strolling mood, noticing architecture instead of desert scenes, and enjoying the many sights, the people leaving their workplaces, but with no rush to get anywhere. Rushing isn’t such a great idea when the thermometer hovers near the century mark.

https://www.fandangotrading.com/vjsjpqxr5id I found beauty in the deep color of a textured wall, a red-earth color so appealing, I had to stop and not only photograph it, but touch it. Run my hands along the roughness, the ridges. That red, to my Midwestern trained eyes, was a Red Rock color, one of those desert colors that sang songs of the Southwest to me.

go And then there was the purple-gray of the wooden window sill. So purple, I wanted to inhale its purple-ness, a purple so perfectly etched in my past that it grabbed a memory from my youth and held on tight.  It was the purple-gray of grapes fully ripe, grapes hanging in the arbor in my grandmother’s back garden. It was the dusty purple of grapes waiting to be plucked from the vine.

follow As I studied the contrasting colors, the memories came visiting. I was in the arbor, picking grapes just like my grandmother picked grapes — a handful for the pail and one to pop in my mouth and savor. I looked at the window frame and imagined my grandmother’s presence in the reflection, picking grapes just a few steps from where I stood.

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source site When I went through my May photographs, I stopped as soon as I saw this photograph. The day I took this photo was etched in my mind. All of my senses were on alert that day, intent on remembering a city that I would soon be leaving. The touch of the red-rock walls. The song of the Southwest. The scent of ripened grapes on the vine and the taste of sweet juice. And a sense of connection with loved ones, long gone.

https://livingpraying.com/18ry3yv5 Photo. Heart. Connection. Oh, yes!

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source link I’ve long understood that when I carry a camera, that mere act heightens my sense of seeing. And now I’ve come to realize that my camera and photography can offer me another gift – the awakening my other senses, too.

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https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/2024/09/18/aw0li1sso6 Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. During the first week of each month, she re-visits her photographs taken the previous month, searching for THE photograph to post as the photo-heart-connection photo. Bo is always quite thrilled when that special photograph finds her.

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source I'm a photographer, book-artist, traveler, naturalist, and creator of the Contemplative Creatives Journey, An Online Workshop and Community and source Desert Wisdom Cards and Workshops. Though often not well known, I find the desert a welcoming place - a healing space. Its mysteries and gifts transformed me several years ago. Since that first encounter, I return again and again to fill my well in what most people think of as a desolate region. I'd love to share my desert discoveries and wisdom with you. Please subscribe to receive my five part mini email course https://trevabrandonscharf.com/1ekcc2h98 The Gifts of the Desert. It's my gift to you.

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  1. https://www.parolacce.org/2024/09/18/ewx3c8ufpcl Oh – I so get this. How a simple scene or image can evoke such memory and connection. Love the colors in this!

  2. enter site Wow! I love the way you’ve described this scene and moment. Pure poetry.

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    • Bo Mackison says

      watch Thanks, Janna. I think I was having a poetic moment when I wrote this! 🙂
      You observe correctly that this isn’t the kind of photo I typically post. But if you could only peek into the thousands of photo files I have sorted, you’d find all sorts of oddities.

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      go here Thanks, Kat. While I was writing this post and thinking about the photograph I had chosen, the connection between the visual sense (always in a photo) and the other senses was striking. It was the first time I explored, consciously, just how many senses could be related to one photo.

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  7. Beautifully put – and also love the colour combination and how the reflection has a dreamy hazy look , with those same colours popping up again.

    • Bo Mackison says

      Yes, I love the reflection, too. Seeing, but not quite seeing. Gives me the space to see ‘more’ than what is actually there.

  8. I’ve missed reading your words. Simply lush and beautiful, Bo. As is the photo. XO

  9. Beautiful image and lovely thoughts in brought to mind. I love the composition and as you were drawn to the purple and red, my eye slid to the window where I pondered what was reflected and what might be inside. Well seen and captured. Is nothing better than being transported back to a dear grandmother?

    • Bo Mackison says

      Yes, that window is the icing on the cake, isn;t it? And it is even more special when I get a connection like that with my grandmother.

  10. Wow, what an experience! Your image and words made feel as though I was right there with you… and brought back memories of a trip to Sedona! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  11. Gorgeous wall colour and texture. I love the purple window frame and like the memories it evokes for you. Great reflections which brings life and vibrancy to the whole capture!

  12. i enjoyed how you followed your heart and you found the memory of your grandmother, the grape arbor and the taste of freshly picked grapes. a lovely word painting and photo.

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