Seeded Earth Studio » photography and musings from the Midwest

Anna Surface - I wonder why domes for capitol buildings? Beautiful dome this is, and a good idea for staying out of the cold. :)01/29/2009 - 6:47 am

Marcie - Gorgeous architectural detail. Love how you've framed this!01/29/2009 - 7:40 am

Robin - It's beautiful dome. I love all the curves in the way you framed this.01/29/2009 - 8:28 am

Gandalf - I agree with Marcie. The framing of this shot is wonderful.01/29/2009 - 10:16 am

quinncreative - . . .and you get to say you are going to the isthmus. Great gilding, too!01/29/2009 - 2:24 pm

Laurie - It is so beautiful. Lovely details. I love to look for indoor treasures to shoot in the cold weather. But, I usually find myself outside anyway.01/29/2009 - 6:13 pm

montucky - That's a beautiful dome! Somehow the sky doesn't look as gray from in there!01/29/2009 - 11:38 pm

Visuallens - Beautiful dome with great detail. Bo your photos are always beautiful whether you take it inside or outside, even the weather is below zero degree.01/30/2009 - 7:41 pm

colblue - Wonderful colours, detail and comp with in this image. Great photo!02/05/2009 - 9:09 pm

montucky - Probably kind of hard to launch a boat right now, eh?01/27/2009 - 9:30 am

Robin - The more you post about Madison, the more I'd like to visit. I'll wait for warmer weather, though. :)01/27/2009 - 10:42 am

Bo - Robin -- It would be great fun for you to come visit Madison, and even better if you come visit me, too! I am almost as good as a tour guidebook. There is a lot to do and see. Wouldn't that be fun?01/27/2009 - 10:58 am

Robin - I think it would be tons of fun, Bo. I intend to take you up on that offer. :)01/27/2009 - 11:09 am

Laurie - I love the lines in this composition. Such a beautiful place!01/27/2009 - 4:39 pm

jeju - nice lines01/27/2009 - 5:50 pm

ybonesy - This is really beautiful!! I love the steam coming up from the ice. Is that what it is?01/27/2009 - 10:21 pm

Marcie - Love the repetition of the shapes and forms of the docks. Madison sounds like a wonderful place. Someday..maybe???01/28/2009 - 6:32 am

Xtine - This photo is amazing in the variety of shades of black and white that you captured. It reminds of the sparkling sunny winter days of my childhood that were so vibrant in energy and the simple colors of black, white and the intense blue of the midwestern sky in midwinter. Ice skating was especially sublime on those days.01/28/2009 - 3:08 pm

Gandalf - Very nice shot.01/29/2009 - 10:15 am

quinncreative - The color in here blows me away. And the fog--or is it steam--softens it to great effect. But damn, if I lived in Madison, I'd have to say "downtown" because I sound like Daffy Duck when I say "isthmus."01/29/2009 - 2:23 pm

Bo - Quinn--you say it fast enough, you can get by saying "iz-mus" and you'd fit right it.01/29/2009 - 2:35 pm

Bob - Beautiful image. It's interesting how nature recycles.01/23/2009 - 7:00 am

Gandalf - Lovely shot. Orchids are among my favorite flowers. They are usually very easy to take care of (pardon my grammer) :)01/23/2009 - 1:15 pm

ybonesy - What a gorgeous shot, Bo. I love the pale pinks and greens. One of my favorite color combinations. (I have Dusty Rose for my plates, although I'm not terribly attached to a set of dinnerware any longer.)01/23/2009 - 8:45 pm

gypsy-heart - I stopped by to catch up on your world. Loved all the images..especially these divine beauties!! I hope all is well with you and yours. :)01/28/2009 - 7:57 am

Visuallens - Nice orchid flower..I like orchid but it look different from the species here.01/30/2009 - 7:33 pm

Laurie - He looks like he thinks he is Royalty from the pose to me...lol Maybe he was annoyed that you turned your back on him? I think there is some etiquette about turning your back on royalty. This is a really great shot.01/19/2009 - 10:02 pm

Marcie - Was thinking the same as Laurie. Maybe he was insulted when you finished your photo-session earlier than he would have liked??? Great image!01/20/2009 - 6:31 am

Richard Lovison - Looks like he's enamored with you. ;) Great shot Bo.01/20/2009 - 7:30 am

Gandalf - He was just making sure you didn't have a recipe for turtle stew in your pocket. :)01/20/2009 - 8:20 am

montucky - I love it! That's a professorial look: you weren't talking during his lecture, were you?01/20/2009 - 8:20 pm

Ron in L.A. - Adorable... R(etc... )01/21/2009 - 12:38 pm

suehenryphotography - =) Great shot!01/22/2009 - 9:16 am

montucky - Very interesting and intricate pattern!01/22/2009 - 10:03 pm

uphilldowndale - I'm always drawn to stained glass, one day I will make some!01/23/2009 - 4:05 am

Gandalf - I love the symetry in the photograph.01/23/2009 - 7:02 am

suehenryphotography - Looks like it could also be a needlepoint pattern. I so agree with your comment "I still love to learn, but I like to do it on my own schedule and pick my subjects with due consideration."01/23/2009 - 10:18 am

Marcie - I guess there's no escaping winter's cool colors. Love the abstract composition. Very Mondrian!!!01/23/2009 - 11:03 am

Laurie - This is a gorgeous window. Love the lines. I thought it was a textile when it first opened.01/23/2009 - 2:03 pm

jeju - makes me want to play super mario bros01/23/2009 - 6:32 pm

Richard Lovison - Nice abstract... beautiful shades of blue.01/23/2009 - 8:29 pm

ybonesy - Wow, dare I say it looks like a semiconductor chip?! That, and it reminds me of a Navajo rug, although in blues.01/23/2009 - 8:44 pm

HeyJules - Nice work here, Bo. Love the pattern and the clarity of the image. It reminds me of a poncho I wore in the '70's. :-)01/24/2009 - 9:23 am

Preston Surface - It is fun to learn and at your own pace. Neat shot and I agree, it is hard to escape the cold.01/25/2009 - 6:28 am

Marcie - WOW! What a spectacular find and capture! Gorgeous bird. Would love to see it with its wings spread!!!01/21/2009 - 3:59 pm

Robin - Nice shot, Bo. :) And hurray for the eagles and their comeback!01/21/2009 - 3:59 pm

Grace - As the Eagle is our national emblem, this 'come back'...on this day.. seems very symbollic to me! :) WOOO!01/21/2009 - 4:22 pm

Gandalf - Hmmm. She/he reminds me of the Muppets. I also would echo Marcie's comment. It would be spectacular to see the wing spread of this bird.01/21/2009 - 5:24 pm

Bo - For Marcie and Gandalf - I added a shot of the eagle soaring. Not a great pic, but it gives you an idea of his grandeur.01/21/2009 - 5:31 pm

Laurie - Beautiful shots of the eagles...there is a good sized population of them in the southern pine areas of NJ. They are so beautiful to see.01/21/2009 - 6:58 pm

montucky - It's so good to see them doing well there, too. They have done very well in this part of the country.01/21/2009 - 7:11 pm

jeju - beautiful soaring shot!01/21/2009 - 8:42 pm

Carsten - Beautiful shot. You are lucky! -Or very patient :) I saw the Bald Eagle near Kennedy Space Center twice. But couldnt get a shot at it in time. Remarkable bird.01/22/2009 - 3:50 am

suehenryphotography - I took the opportunity to photograph the Eagles at the Keokuk lock and dam. I concur with everything you said. And watching them is truly a sight to behold.01/22/2009 - 8:29 am

Anna Surface - Wow! Absolutely beautiful captures! We were out and about at a nearby dam where the bald eagles nest, and saw one flying by. But we didn't wait out in the cold to capture photos of any of these magnificent birds. Way to go, Bo. :)01/23/2009 - 9:06 am

UrFavoriteNephewMatt - Great Picture! They are amazing up close! Very nice (:01/26/2009 - 5:09 pm

Gandalf - It's curious to observe which Presidents had poems for their inaugurations (at least since the first one) and which ones have not. The idea to have a poem or not isn't partisan (at least not yet) inasmuch as Johnson & Carter did not have poems. Reagan had a gift of imagery in his presentations and did not need a poet to give image to his vision (whether you like the vision or not). Johnson, Carter, Nixon and the Bush family - what is in common?01/21/2009 - 10:16 am

uphilldowndale - Thanks for posting, I enjoyed reading that as much as I did listening to it yesterday.01/21/2009 - 10:21 am

ybonesy - Yes, "bramble" is a poet's word. I noticed it when she said it. I like that word, how it sounds like what it means, and how she followed it with "thorn." I really found her economy of words striking, and I said it on QM's post about Elizabeth Alexander, that I was amazed how in just a few words she was able to invoke the image of slaves and migrant workers, janitors/cleaners and business people.01/21/2009 - 11:15 am

jackie chavis - She, like Whitman, includes all of us. Her ideas strike of Auden looking at the painting of a momentous event like the fall of Icarus while others go about their daily tasks! Brilliant for a commissioned piece.01/21/2009 - 11:24 am

Daniel Klotz - In my reading (which I blogged about), I found that Elizabeth Alexander's poem paled in comparison to Maya Angelou's. How did the comparative reading strike you?01/21/2009 - 2:22 pm

Gandalf - I may need to review the other inaugural poems. Do you have a link?01/23/2009 - 1:26 pm

coffee - The inauguration ceremony // after party looked like quite a get-together -- i'm sorry i missed it01/21/2009 - 12:04 am

Marcie - What does it say about us that we took pictures of the pictures?!?!? Love this one. It really does look like a double exposure!!!01/21/2009 - 6:14 am

Anna Surface - As I watched the Inauguration, I thought about keeping my camera nearby to capture a TV photo. This is a great capture, Bo.... and the picture is worth more than a thousand words and certainly represents what Obama spoke about in his speech. Love this, indeed. I like the title you used: "The New President and First Lady, in Tune with the Nation" Excellent! Yes we can.01/21/2009 - 7:44 am

Preston Surface - Anna told me about this picture. Wow, great shot taken from the tv. Such an historic moment.01/21/2009 - 9:29 am

Robin - Very cool, Bo. :) It was quite a day, wasn't it?01/21/2009 - 9:51 am

Gandalf - Pretty awesome what you can do with a camera these days. Nice shot.01/21/2009 - 10:09 am

Grace - WOWOWOW! :) You ought to send that picture to the Obama camp or CNN or one of the major news outlets, Bo! I bet they'd pay you big bucks for that shot. What a beauty! (And the inaugural, well...even though I didn't vote for Obama (I voted Ron Paul...my conscious!...even though I had to write him in! LOL), I was so touched by the historic moment I was graced to live to see. MAN, this is one amazing country! I feel patriotic again! LOL01/21/2009 - 4:20 pm

mon@rch - Its a day that I will not miss for the rest of my life!01/21/2009 - 9:57 pm

amuirin - It's a pretty cool photograph, really.01/27/2009 - 10:03 pm

ybonesy - Oh wow, how did I miss this one?? It's perfect. Is ABC the one that has Good Morning America? That's what I was watching, and when they did the National Anthem they flashed a lot of shots of monuments and graves and other symbols. I'm trying to remember if this shot came through on GMA or not.01/28/2009 - 9:57 am

meyebeauty - Truly beautiful; What poise and grace President Obama has !01/20/2009 - 3:17 pm

Carsten - And we saw it here in Denmark too. It is one of the 'historic moments' of our time. Congratulations. Lets hope he and his staff will succeed and fulfill some of our wishes.01/20/2009 - 3:23 pm

organicsyes - Amen and amen...01/20/2009 - 3:49 pm

Gandalf - So far I like the dude. He speaks in complete sentences. How refreshing.01/20/2009 - 5:20 pm

janets365 - I was watching it, too, and was fascinated by the way the sunlight kept hitting his flag pin and creating the beautiful starburst effect. It must have done it a dozen times. Certainly it wasn't something that could have been staged. Great job of capturing it!01/20/2009 - 9:05 pm

Preston Surface - Maybe there is hope, not just of economic recovery and peace from all the wars, but also of a drawing together of a nation.01/21/2009 - 9:34 am

Marcie - This is stunning! Love how the white sky meets the white snow. Very peaceful and idyllic.01/19/2009 - 3:32 am

burstmode - It looks cold...fascinating, though. I keep staring at it.01/19/2009 - 8:16 am

Preston Surface - I always heard it as a white rabbit in a snow storm, but then again it would be hard to capture a lot of black rabbits in the same storm. Hehe, just funnin' with you. In this case the white sky really worked with you. I always wonder about the cattle in all the weather. Don't they get cold?01/19/2009 - 8:41 am

Bo - Preston, they do get too cold at times. Last week, a lot of the farmers had to rig up some sort of shelter for the animals who typically stay outside.01/19/2009 - 8:43 am

ybonesy - Oh, I love this shot. I love cows. I guess it's the ranching blood in me. And to see them in the snow, with the sky as white as the ground, well, it's very evocative, of a time and place. Really great.01/19/2009 - 10:35 am

ybonesy - p.s., loved your white sheet of paper joke, too. Hadn't heard that one. (Maybe it's a Midwestern joke??)01/19/2009 - 10:36 am

Richard Lovison - Nice shot Bo. As a child I was taught a slightly different version of the joke. I would present the white sheet of paper as a cow eating grass. When asked where the grass was I would reply "the cow ate it all." When asked where the cow was I would reply "why would the cow hang around if the grass was all gone." Silly stuff. :) Hey, I just bought an E-3 camera body package with vertical grip from Cameta. I guess I'm up there with the big boys now. :)01/19/2009 - 11:30 am

Bo - Rick - I think I like your joke version better than mine. Hey, great news on the E-3. I love mine, and am still trying to get a handle on the stuff it can do. Hopefully I will be learning new stuff about this camera and photography 'til the day I die! :-)01/19/2009 - 11:40 am

Richard Lovison - Bo wrote: "Hopefully I will be learning new stuff about this camera and photography ’til the day I die!" Or at least until the 16 or 20 megapixel E-4 - E-5 comes out. :) I'm looking forward to shooting with it. I think I'm going to miss the mode dial though... it's nice not having to go into the main menu to choose manual, aperture priority or shutter priority modes.01/19/2009 - 11:57 am

Gandalf - great shot. My version of the white cow in a snow storm was "Polar bears in a snow storm." we didn't have too many polar bears on the loose in Chicago (my home town). I guess if I had been really creative I would have said "White Sox" in a snow storm. :)01/19/2009 - 2:06 pm

Robin - Very nice shot, Bo. I enjoyed the story to go with it, too. I don't know if the cows are cold, but they sure look it. I was watching the neighbor's horses out in the snow today. At first they were running around, all frisky. Now they're just standing in the snow, looking cold.01/19/2009 - 3:05 pm