‘Golden Shadow’

'Golden Shadow' © 2010 Bo Mackison

I took this photograph of a most unusual plant a few weeks ago at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens. I took it before we had had our first frost. I took it when we’d had an abundance of rain. I took it when the mosquitoes were each the size [...]

Seeing in Frames

Nayad © 2010 Robin Simmons

This is the second in a series of guest posts. I asked blog visitors to answer the question “How has photography had a positive impact on your life?”  and Robin wrote this response. (Thanks Robin.) This is a question I’ve been exploring in my recent series “Why Photography?”

Seeing [...]

‘Queen Charlotte’ Anemone

Queen, Center Stage © 2010 Bo Mackison

This simple purple flower, a Japanese anemone, is formally known as ‘Queen Charlotte’. I was attracted to this particular flower because two of the yellow stamens have bent towards the center of the flower. With a little imagination, I can see a little butterfly kiss. This flower [...]

Camera as a Tool Box

This is the first of several guest posts from blog visitors who answered the question  “How has photography had a positive impact on your life?” — a question I’ve been exploring in my recent series “Why Photography?”

Quinn McDonald tackled this question in the following post:

Hong Kong, in those years, was a noisy [...]

Dewy Geranium

Dewy Geranium © 2010 Bo Mackison

There aren’t a lot of flowers in my perennial garden in the backyard. When I went garden strolling early this morning, there were a few spikes of lavender, some raggedy purple coneflowers, quite wabi-sabi, and several geraniums that were soaked in dew, but the dew couldn’t hide those [...]

Starry, Starry Night

Starry, Starry Night © 2010 Bo Mackison

These tiny blossoms of the Sweet Autumn Clematis remind me of masses of flowery constellations. This late flowering vine has thousands of tiny star shaped flowers and blooms from the end of August to October. It is delightfully fragrant and is twined about the gates to the [...]