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Chiricahua and Beyond – Day 1

April 26, 2016 by Bo Mackison Leave a Comment

go here Drive east across southern Arizona
veer southeast at Willcox
and cross the high desert.

https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/2024/09/18/9vzk8n8wf Here are the Chiricahua Mountains, a sky island,
and Chiricahua National Monument.
Begin in the mixed oak and conifer forest and

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watch ascend 6000 feet, finish amidst the highest rocks,
Chiracahua Peak is 9,759 feet high.
An Apache place name, it means “a wonderland of rocks”.

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https://www.thoughtleaderlife.com/rfvhl5g The rocks are rhyolite, volcanic rock,
the trees are juniper, pygmy trees,
and the Chiricahuan Raven calls this mountain his home.

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go Return the way one came, descending Bonita Canyon Road,
and return to the high desert.
The tumbleweed blow. A storm approaches.

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click Drive east again, towards New Mexico,
the first day of travel nearly done.
The air so dry and hot, the rain evaporates before it reaches the ground.

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source Cross country travel. Using iPhone and Hipstamatic app. There is little time to stop for photographs, so these are on-the-road shots.

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Arizona, Chiricahua National Monument, Hipstamatic, iPhonography, Travel

Traveling to the Desert — Day One

January 2, 2016 by Bo Mackison Leave a Comment

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https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/2024/09/18/7wznqbl December 31.

go to site Heading west from Wisconsin.

https://trevabrandonscharf.com/9rfm0ca Driving to the desert.

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watch 100 miles done, 1700 to go.

https://livingpraying.com/jvmc92gmf Crossing the Mississippi River at Dubuque, Iowa

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https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/2024/09/18/2lgmlwki471 300 miles done, 1500 miles to go. break in travel for a hometown visit

go here crossing the Mississippi again, this time into Illinois

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follow site much of Quincy is built high on the bluffs, natural flood protection

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the bridge of my childhood travels

crossing this bridge always meant some version of travel adventure — a visit with family who across the river in Missouri or Iowa, or a weekend trip to St. Louis (the big city)

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Since driving and arriving are the priority for this trip, all photos are drive by. And on the first leg of the journey, all shots are taken through winter-slushed windows.

Hipstamatic filters set on random (but still available for some post processing when desired) and my iPhone add a sense of photo adventure with a modicum of control.

Filed Under: Photography, Travel Tagged With: bridge, driving, driving to the desert, Dubuque Iowa, Hipstamatic, Illinois, Iowa, iPhonography, Minimalist, Mississippi River, Quincy Illinois, snow, Travel, winter, Wisconsin

A Series of Photographs – Exploring the Creative Process

April 15, 2014 by Bo Mackison 4 Comments

Lens: Jimmy
Film: Claunch 72 Monochrome

Often I am a slow photographer.

I check the times of sunrise and sunset, and plan shooting times to take advantage of the golden light. I pack my camera bag with a combination of multiple lenses and diffusers and hoods, with dust protectors and extra batteries and memory cards. I attach a heavy tripod to the bag, too.

This is slow photography. I sit and absorb the feel of a place. I connect with the space. I may wait for a certain cloud formation to float into a certain location, or a shadow to darken a rock.

And though it can be hard work, I find most of the process passionately engaging. (I could do without the extra gear weight, especially when hiking in the desert, but…that’s part of the experience.)

Lens: Jane
Film: Blanko

But sometimes I am a spur of the moment photographer.

I grab my iPhone. I open the camera and I start shooting.

One of my favorite techniques for letting go and giving myself full permission to enjoy the process is what I refer to as my https://everitte.org/3uggzx3e “shake and take” technique.

Lens: Kaimal Mark II
Film: Blanko

Yep. I open the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone and I take a photo.

Then I simply shake my cell phone. The app randomly changes lenses and film and I retake the photograph. I often shake and take a dozen photos of the same subject. Then I look at the photographs.

I’ll get a few duplicates – same lens and film combination – and choose which one I prefer. Otherwise, I simply take what pops up randomly.

I find it fascinating how the different combinations change a simple subject.

Lens: Jane
Film: Claunch 72 Monochrome

In this series, I took photos of a palo verde tree while in my car.

I was waiting for a friend and noticed the overhanging branches dangling over the car. I opened the window, aimed towards the sky, took a photo, shook the cell phone, and then repeated. A lot!

Happily, the app records the lens, film, and other data, so when I find a combination I am fond of, I can replicate it with different subjects.

Lens: Lucifer VI
Film: Blanko

There’s a lot to be said for a creative process that can change with my mood.

Slow and pensive, quick and experimental, metaphorical or playful. The many moods of the photographer and the resulting photos.

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Arizona, Hipstamatic, iPhonography, palo verde, photography techniques, slow photography vs fast photography, tree, Tucson Arizona

Black and White Photography at Tucson Botanical Gardens

March 30, 2014 by Bo Mackison 4 Comments

Black and Whites at Tucson Botanical Gardens

A planter.

Lots of places to sit and admire the flowering plants.

Lots of light and shadow play.

White Chairs.

Walking.

Ramada.

A trip to the Tucson Botanical Gardens on a sunny day.

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: black and white photography, Hipstamatic, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Botanical gardens

Traveling East, A Spring Greening

May 1, 2012 by Bo Mackison 12 Comments

The greening of the trees in spring rain,
see-through trees like a lacy negligee, the nesting bird
watches from the half-leafed trees.

Calves balancing on gentle hills rub their noses in the wet grasses.
One stands wobbly, leans against its mother.
Others watch their mothers watching them, nibble a bit, suckle,
wander about the remains of last fall’s tattered harvest.

Darkest brown, Iowa’s earth, earth that dips
and dances. We’ve driven past the Kansas grasslands,
and not yet reached the prairie flat of Illinois.

See the family plot tucked tightly between
the edge of the woods and the tilled field;
Splintered posts and strands of wire mark its boundary.
Roughly hewed stones, two rows of three, the mossy inscriptions illegible.
Though one, a mother’s marker, is split in half – part upright,
part broken off and tipped into the rain-soaked grass.
The roughened quarry block, now a rest stop for crows,
splats of white the only sign of life.

Clouds hang gray, so low I yearn to stand
and push them high into the skies, high enough to punch an opening into the dim blueness
that is Midwestern sky, give sunlight to the earth.
Yet fog lingers, sky primed in deep grays.

We pass a highway sign, What Cheer, population 142. Twenty miles south.
I wish to see a town worthy of this name, but we’re on the fourth morning of steady travel.
There is no will to detour.
Tonight we sleep in the familiar ridges and valleys of our familiar bed.

First I will say hello to the house I left a hundred days ago,
walk through the rooms I know by memory, peer out the back window at the apple tree.
I’m told no blossoms remain.

I bought a primitive statue of a woman last summer from a stone sculptor the next booth over.
She toppled in a winter storm. My husband mentions this
as he pulls into the Save-n-Go in Dubuque for gas and coffee.

Tomorrow morning I’ll push her upright so we can watch the garden together.
We will meet, eye to eye, and reflect on the greenness of Midwest spring.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. After four days of cross-country travel, Bo is back home in the Midwest.

Filed Under: Photography, Travel, Writing Practices Tagged With: driving cross country, Hipstamatic, iPhonography, leaving the desert, Midwest, poetry, rain, spring, Travel

Chiricahua and Beyond – Day 1

Traveling to the Desert — Day One

A Series of Photographs – Exploring the Creative Process

Often I am a slow photographer.

But sometimes I am a spur of the moment photographer.

Yep. I open the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone and I take a photo.

In this series, I took photos of a palo verde tree while in my car.

There’s a lot to be said for a creative process that can change with my mood.

Black and White Photography at Tucson Botanical Gardens

Traveling East, A Spring Greening

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