Early Morning Fog – Tree and Mailbox © 2015 Bo Mackison
“It’s funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.” ~ Elizabeth Kostova
Mailbox and a Foggy Morning
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Seeing in the Desert
December 4, 2011 by 2 Comments
Crested Saguaro © 2011 Bo Mackison
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher in a storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes what I see as I photograph a subject is not what anyone else might see.
Sometimes what I remember seeing is not what the pixels captured.
Sometimes I recapture the magic of what I saw using the “magic” of post-processing.
Sometimes photography is similar to appreciating that the clouds color the sunset sky.
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Bo Mackison is a photographer, owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She loves the Sonoran Desert, and she loves what she sees in the desert, too.
Spanish Bayonet
December 1, 2011 by 5 Comments
Spanish Bayonet © 2011 Bo Mackison
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. ~ E. Merrill Root
There is much in the desert that prompts a sense of wonder. These agave leaves — long, narrow, remarkably rigid, and with dangerously sharp tips — are capped in a bright red, and make me think immediately that this plant has repeatedly engaged in battles with inquisitive fingers.
It’s not the least bit difficult to understand why one of this agave’s English names is “Spanish Bayonet.” Perhaps requiring more imagination that I possess, I do not know why anyone would call this same plant “Our Lord’s Candle,” but my reference book, The Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, says it is so.
I did some manipulation of the original photograph so the cluster of tips in the center of the plant remain visible, but the background leaves seem to be melting into abstraction. Maybe it is like a candle! Or maybe my imagination got the best of me!
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Bo Mackison is a photographer, owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Loving the desert and its amazing plant life. Must remember everything in the desert, however, is sharp — no unplanned movements.
