Digital Dahlia

Digital Dahlia © 2012 Bo Mackison

Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life. ~ Picasso

I took a break from packing and organizing to use Nik Pro Efex and transform a photo of a dahlia I took two springs ago into a softer, more subtle [...]

A Crack in Everything

There is a Crack © 2012 Bo Mackison

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.

~  Anthem by Leonard Cohen

The link is to the song on YouTube. Interesting, thought-provoking [...]

Autumn Reflections

“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On a calm, misty morning, these autumn colors were reflected in Indian Lake. Photographed at Indian [...]

The Non-Conformist

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley

Photo taken at Devil’s Lake State Park near [...]

Double Yellows

Deep blue lake trapping Reflection in calm waters Double yellow orbs

Just after sunrise on a calm mid-October morning at Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin

Taps at Moon Rise

Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky; All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.

first stanza of ‘Taps’

This late October’s full moon is known as the Hunters Moon. This moon rise reminded me of the lyrics from the well-known military song, ‘Taps’. Taken at [...]