Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert

Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert, Arizona

I came upon these two saguaro cacti as the sun was beginning to set on the Sonoran Desert, one a saguaro skeleton and the other in the prime of life adorned with June flowers atop each arm. It took 65-75 years for the live saguaro to sprout its first arm so it’s probably 100-150 years old. They live to be 200-300 years old and are the largest cactus in the US reaching 60 ft in height.

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Nikon N90S SLR, AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D, Kodachrome 64 Professional color transparency film, exposure not recorded, Aperture Priority, M-up Mode, Manfrotto 3221 tripod with Manfrotto 3047 studio head, Nikon MC-20 remote cable, Plustek OpticFilm 7600i Ai film scanner, LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast 8 scanner

Tags: Arizona, cactus, fine art, O. BisognoScotti, photographers, photographs, photography, photos, saguaro, Sonoran Desert

20 thoughts on “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”

O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 12:22 am said:

rabirius: Thanks for being the first to like my image “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert” (Midnight Los Angeles time).

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 12:27 am said:

Nina Joan: Thanks for liking my image “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”. I love wandering aimlessly on the desert.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 12:31 am said:

Andrea Giang | Cooking with a Wallflower: I’m glad you liked my image “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert” It was 98 degrees that day, and by the time I made this capture is was refreshing 75 degrees.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 12:40 am said:

WDC: Thanks for visiting Blog-Bisogno.com an liking my image “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 1:00 am said:

Nurul Lubis: I have a thing for saguaro skeletons. I’m glad you liked this one. Enjoy!

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 8:55 am said:

amandalyle1986: Thanks for liking my old school landscape “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert” captured on Kodachrome 64.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 9:03 am said:

Violet of Violet’s Veg*n e-comics: Thanks for liking my non-albumen print “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert” 😉
Albumen prints: photographic paper print in which a finely divided silver and gold image is dispersed in a matrix of egg white.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 9:09 am said:

Nature’s Child: As long as there are bees, bats, and white winged doves for pollination, there will be saguaro cactus. Thank you liking my image.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 9:21 am said:

marcus dilano: Captured in June 1995, I had no iPhone with compass app…but in a way that was good. It’s sometimes better to wander aimlessly. Thanks for liking this image on Kodachrome 64 Professional.

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changsookhyang on May 18, 2015 at 9:26 am said:

Love nature!!! I always follow the nature…

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 9:45 am said:

avivtheo: Thanks for liking “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”. The young tree with green bark growing just behind the saguaro skeleton is a palo verde. Palo verde trees serve as nurse plants for saguaro cacti by providing a canopy micro habitat for saguaro seed to germinate under.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 18, 2015 at 5:34 pm said:

Ann Koplow: Thanks for following Blog-Bisogno.com. Enjoy!

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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 23, 2015 at 12:26 pm said:

“Lezlie Sokol” Painted Cloud Gallery: Thanks for liking “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”. Each capture becomes a fraction of your own life.

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signorinamelrice on May 24, 2015 at 12:59 pm said:

Pretty much looks like a painting. 🙂 cool pic you got here!
Hi, Scott! How have you been? I was gone for quite some time. Good to be back here. 😀

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- O. Bisogno Scotti on May 25, 2015 at 12:53 am said:
  
  Thank you signorinamelrice. I’m glad you liked “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”. It is my intention to make my images look like paintings. I print them on art paper which makes them appear even more painterly. I am becoming more and more obsessed with art by the day. I noticed your absence and am happy to see you are back. All the other signorine I know are nuns. 😉
  
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  - signorinamelrice on May 25, 2015 at 3:59 am said:
    
    Oooh, that’s explains every painting-like photos you got then. Which are really cool and just amazing. 😀 It’s good to be obsessed with art, there’s no problem with that. That’s even a very nice thing to get attached into. Oh, really? Would you be surprised if I tell you that I had some inner voices of becoming one, too? ^_^
    
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  - O. Bisogno Scotti on May 25, 2015 at 9:00 am said:
    
    I’m so glad you like my images. I call them images because there is a quality of unreality to them due to their painterly quality. They began in my mind before the moment of capture. It is inspiring when someone takes the time to relate how they feel while viewing my images. It feeds this wonderful obsession, the relentless search for beauty. Thank you.
    
    I am not surprised at your admission to thoughts of following a higher calling. Artists see things that others overlook.
    
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  - signorinamelrice on May 27, 2015 at 4:47 am said:
    
    *groping for words* 🙂
    
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O. Bisogno Scotti on May 25, 2015 at 10:49 pm said:

M. Talmage Moorehead: Thanks for liking my image “Life and Death on the Sonoran Desert”. I’m a guy who loves technology and was in on the spearhead of the digital photography movement. Over the years digital capture has caught up with film and in someways surpassed it, but artistically there is still something about film that can’t be beat…that something most likely being clusters of silver halide in film emulsion that gives it a funkiness that digital doesn’t have.

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O. Bisogno Scotti on November 28, 2016 at 12:57 am said:

Lezlie Gwynn: Thanks for liking this image. I believe it was captured within the boundaries of Saguaro National Park East.

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