A Distraction of Poppies

Poppy and Bokeh

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source site Sherpa and I spent last weekend in Milwaukee. We attended the Wright and Like Tour, a tour of eleven houses in the Milwaukee area, all designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and related architects. The annual tour is sponsored by the The Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin Heritage Tourism Program, Inc., created with the assistance of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the State of Wisconsin Department of Tourism.

https://thesentinelgroup.com/personal-injury/ This is the third year we have attended. We attended our first tour in Madison in 2009 and last year toured homes and businesses in the Racine area.

Tramadol 50 Mg Price The main tour was held on Saturday, and although the weather was overcast with a few sprinkles here and there, it was not unpleasant outside. As an added bonus, I much prefer taking photographs of architecture when it is cloudy. Sunny days, especially during the mid-day, casts harsh shadows and the light is too bright and washes out details.

https://anthonynewmancamps.com/sports-camps/ I have hundreds of photos to go through, and so I will be posting photographs of the exteriors of the houses we toured, but it will take me a while to organize them.

see url Since Sherpa and I were celebrating our anniversary, we splurged and added the second day of the tour. It turned out to be an excellent decision. We saw the Lyndon Sculpture Garden in the morning and visited the Greek Annunciation Orthodox Church, one of Wright’s last designs, in the early afternoon before heading home.

Buy Hydrocodone Online Overnight The weather was sunny and mild, with a few scattered clouds, on Sunday, providing great background for our walk through the 40 acre sculpture garden. The garden was the creation and much loved project of Margaret Blakey Bradley, one of the greatest benefactors of the arts (and other projrects) in Milwaukee.

https://drbatayneh.com/pediatric-ophthalmology/ Finally, the visit to the church was the highlight of the tour for me. I sat in the church’s interior for well over an hour, just looking in awe of the beauty, the design, the details. Of course, I took lots of photographs in both the garden and of the exterior and interior of Annunciation Church, so I will have plenty of photographs to share with you.

enter site So…if I took hundreds of photographs of buildings and sculpture, why am I posting yet another photo of this lovely pink poppy? Well, because I absolutely fell in love with one of the tour home’s gardens and I received permission to photograph some of the flowers. There were hundreds to choose from, but I was totally captivated by this particular poppy and spent the majority of my time ooh-ing and aah-ing and admiring three pink poppies.

http://www.ztpackaging.com/tisserie/ It seems no matter where I look, there is always a wonder or two to photograph.And that truly makes me a happy photographer.

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Get Ambien Prescription Online Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is catching up on some photo business today before diving into her new stash of photographs.

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A Pink Poppy Celebration

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follow site It was a sunny day, hot and windy. Mid-June in central Illinois.

https://thelonelycreative.com/novels/ The flowers in the back yard gardens were in high color–roses, gladioli, poppies. The shrubbery was white with tiny flowers–Bridal Wreath bushes. Fitting for the day. A wedding day.

I was the bride. Sherpa was the groom.

Thirty five years ago today.

Today we remember and reminisce. Today we give thanks and we celebrate.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Today she is exploring old haunts in Milwaukee and celebrating with Sherpa.

 

 

 

 

Composition of Two Columbine

Two Columbine in Composition

Composition of Two Columbine © 2011 Bo Mackison

These sweet columbine were dancing in the wind and paused just long enough to let me take their portrait. We planted these plants the first spring we moved into this home – 25 years ago. Each year they seed and spread a bit more. The columbine is one of my favorite Wisconsin flowers.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. I did not schedule an art fair this coming weekend, but I’ll be at the Leeper Park Art Fair in South Bend, Indiana the weekend of June 18-19.

 

An Art Fair Experience

Columbine Bell

Columbine Bell © 2011 Bo Mackison

I was at the 57th Street Art Fair in Hyde Park, Chicago last weekend. This weekend I purposely did not schedule an art fair so that Sherpa and I could celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary.

We will be going to the Wright and Like 2011 House Tour on Saturday, and my second favorite thing in the world to photograph, second only to shooting botanicals and nature, is photographing the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the like-minded architects who were his contemporaries. There will be plenty of opportunities as we tour fifteen buildings in and around Milwaukee (if we have enough stamina!)

Thinking over the events of last weekend, I so enjoyed the art fair. I analyzed (just a bit) what made it a great show for me. Yes, I covered expenses and made a profit at the show, and that is always a great thing, but there is another really wonderful reason that I am an artist on the art fair circuit.  go site

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Sure, art fairs are enjoyable when crowds of eager customers fill the streets, when the weather is sunny, when the entertainment isn’t drowning out conversations in the booth. But that unique combination doesn’t always happen.

Still, I pretty much love any decently organized art fair that has patrons who want to https://drbatayneh.com/appointment-form/ talk art with me — who are genuinely interested in what I do, in my vision, in my photography, in my life as an artist.

There were so many people at the 57th Street Art Fair that wanted to talk art, it was pure pleasure. We discussed why and how I chose to photograph certain subjects, we talked about emotions caused by visualizing oneself in a photograph.

In one example, I shared the background of the relationship of a specific photo and its title with a couple of women. The conversation went like this:

“Why do you call the photograph of that white flower ‘Basho’s Temple Bell'”?
“I was inspired by a haiku by a poet named Basho who lived in the 17th century.”
“Do you know the words?”
“Yes. ‘The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flower.’ ~Basho

They told me how much they loved poetry and how much they loved flowers. They studied the photograph for a few minutes. And one of the women said she would like to get the photograph for her home. She also took home a meaningful art experience and an understanding of the story behind her new photograph.

That is the most beautiful part about being an art fair artist — the connection that can develop between artist and collector.

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The above photograph is a close-up of the intricate beauty of the columbine flower. Photographed in a private garden in Madison, Wisconsin.

Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. No art fair this coming weekend, but I’ll be at the Leeper Park Art Fair in South Bend, Indiana the weekend of June 18-19. (Sherpa is thrilled–he gets to visit his Alma Mater.)

 

 

 

Three Irises

Purple Iris

Sun Drenched Purple Iris © 2011 Bo Mackison

Two irises popped open in my garden yesterday and I took the opportunity to take a few photographs before the weather turned drippy. (That would be drippy as in perspiration dripping from my face, and drenching my cotton shirt, not from rain clouds.)

After an hour in the gardens, I retreated inside to the cool recesses of my studio, and played with the iris photograph using Adobe Lightroom. I’ve experimented with a single photograph using three color levels. Though I typically do not increase the saturation in my photographs, I did increase the clarity and vibrancy in this first photograph to highlight the colors and contrasts.

I love the purple veining on this particular iris and wanted to emphasize it.

Iris in my Garden

Iris in my Garden © 2011 Bo Mackison

As a middle step, I decreased the saturation until there was minimal, but still definite coloring, in the flower. Again, I wanted to maintain the pattern of the veined sepals while lessening the impact of the bright colors.

Iris - Study in Black and White

Iris - Study in Black and White © 2011 Bo Mackison

I find working on black and white photos the most difficult and time-consuming, especially photographs of botanicals. Our minds expect flowers to be colorful and it is startling to see the color stripped away, and only the form of the flower and the light/dark values remaining.

This ended up being one of my favorites. I liked the light toned, complexly shaped iris against the contrast of the darker, vertical leaves.

This is the second set of threes I have done like this. The first set was a branch of dogwood blossoms. I will be showing them in sets of three at my upcoming art fairs. It’s always fun to hear the customer response to my experiments and the best way I know to see if the sets have curb appeal.

That is one of the reasons I love doing art fairs so much–you get immediate feedback on your art. No middle man. No anonymity of the web. Face to face discussions about photography.

I love that!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. I didn’t schedule any art fairs for the coming weekend. Instead, I planned a special celebration for a personal milestone. More info coming.