My grandmother gave me a Brownie camera when I was eight
years old, then proudly showed my photographs of her flowers to her Garden
Society. The joy I felt as a young child while taking photographs for others to
enjoy remains today, and it is this passion that keeps me immersed in
photography.
My husband and I moved to Wisconsin in the mid-1970s and,
on impulse, I borrowed a Pentax K-1000 to take my first photography course. I
later attended the Madison Area Technical College and Edgewood University in Madison
where I took both art and photography classes.
In 2007, I received a digital camera as a gift and the door
to photography opened wider than ever. My world shifted as I saw the
possibilities that could be created using a camera and lenses — infinite possibilities
to document the natural world, architecture, history, seeing everything with a
new perspective.
"Even the smallest of details became intensely
interesting. Maybe that's why I love photography. I try to capture what I see,
my own interpretation, not what someone else might see."
I also became a contributor to WisconsinNative.com, writing
and photographing for both the Wandering Wisconsin and Travel Green
features on the travel website through December, 2008. My photography has also
been published in regional magazines, national travel guides, and in a book on
Functional Architecture which was published in London in 2009.
Though I shoot in many genres, I most love the experience
of photographing the natural world. Nature grounds me. I can be myself --
in the forest, the mountains, the desert, or the prairie -- in solitude with
nature.
My hobby is now a career, as I write and photograph as a
freelancer as the principal of Seeded Earth Studio, LLC.
Wandering through the gardens at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, and I saw this patch of allium, or wild onion. Pretty stuff, this flowering plant called wild onion.
On a hike yesterday in the woods at Owen Park in Madison, I came across a field of ferns in the woods. I love the delicacy of these plants. And green–so nice to see a sea of green again!
Anna Surface - Gorgeous in shape and detail and oh so lovely green. Very nice capture.05/28/2009 - 7:31 am
suehenryphotography - Stunning! Very artistically captured.05/28/2009 - 9:13 am
Gandalf - Very nice composition and capture of the delicacy of the fern.05/28/2009 - 9:46 am
myphotoscout - The pattern of the fern are amazing and the detail of your capture is outstanding. Amazing work.05/28/2009 - 10:53 am
Carsten - This is a beauty. Good composition. -It is close to monochrome, isn't it?05/28/2009 - 4:06 pm
montucky - Very nice Bo. Looks Oriental.05/28/2009 - 7:31 pm
ybonesy - Oh my, what an amazing piece. The composition, the fern itself, the shades of green. A favorite!05/28/2009 - 10:59 pm
oneshotbeyond - the green is just such a brilliant shade...it stands out!05/29/2009 - 12:07 am
Debi - Perfect. Simply perfect.05/29/2009 - 8:32 am
Marcie - Absolutely stunning! Love the abstractness..the subtle color and sharp detail.05/29/2009 - 1:54 pm
Preston Surface - I'm not sure what it is about this photo, but I love it. Something about the curls; it hooks and draws me into the photo.05/31/2009 - 5:41 am
organicsyes - Ferns delight my soul...ancient and spiraling...
miss you!
Susan06/04/2009 - 7:20 am
Rob Weiher - Thanks for the comment on my blog :)
This particular shot of yours was an "oh wow" moment for me. Everything about it drew me in.06/04/2009 - 3:24 pm
To my daughter:
Sending big wishes and a day filled with fun,
today is the day you turn twenty-one!!!
Happy birthday to my daughter, my youngest, the last one to cross over to official adulthood. This calls for a day of celebration, starting with a day at the stadium watching the Brewers play baseball and ending with a...
Marcie - Love how you've framed and capture this Chihully sculpture. A perfect image to celebrate your baby gir's birthday!!!05/27/2009 - 7:30 am
one way photo / Mark - I remember seeing a Chihuly exhibition at Kew Gardens in London a couple of years ago... magnificent art, so thanks for reminding me of it05/27/2009 - 8:08 am
burstmode - Wow...happy birthday and what a beautiful photograph.05/27/2009 - 8:26 am
montucky - Happy Birthday to your daughter! I hope her day will be as bright and cheerful as this photograph!05/27/2009 - 9:16 am
Anna Surface - Neat sculpture! Happy Birthday to your daughter! She is at such a special age. :)05/27/2009 - 10:08 am
myphotoscout - Happy Birthday! Any intentions to celebrate your independence while your daughter celebrates hers?05/27/2009 - 11:16 am
oneshotbeyond - Wonderful post for your daughter! I love the cheery-ness of the photograph.05/27/2009 - 11:18 am
Robin - Chihully glass makes a great birthday card. :)
Wonderful post. Happy Birthday to your daughter!05/27/2009 - 6:16 pm
Laurie - A very Happy Birthday to your daughter and a hearty congrats to you for surviving through all those wonderful stages kids go through growing up.
What a beautiful shot here to celebrate. So festive.05/27/2009 - 6:38 pm
edvatza - Love it, Bo. Absolutely love. Don't know what it is but it is way cool! Terrific image.05/27/2009 - 9:08 pm
Gandalf - I'll second the birthday wishes (albeit a bit late). The colors in th photo contrasted with the sky are striking.05/28/2009 - 9:45 am
In all my years of tramping through Wisconsin’s forests, this is the first set of prairie trillium I have seen. I could not find this particular species of trillium in any ID book, except for the local book Spring Woodland Wildflowers of the University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum by Andrew L. Hipp. A rather thin...
uphilldowndale - I've never seen anything like that before! not like anything you'd find in the UK05/26/2009 - 9:10 am
oneshotbeyond - beautiful bokeh on that 1st image. Unique color combo too05/26/2009 - 4:45 pm
montucky - What a great find!05/26/2009 - 10:39 pm
ceanothe - Arboretums accommodate the plant trèsors, thank you for your photos05/27/2009 - 12:21 am
suehenryphotography - Your photos make me want to re-check my trillium photos. I guess I need to compare "nodding or not nodding" heads!05/27/2009 - 8:49 am
edvatza - Love Trilliums, Bo. I'm hoping to catch some more when we head to Maine in a week. Very nicely captured!05/27/2009 - 9:06 pm
Gandalf - Beautiful capture. Trillium are among my favorites.05/28/2009 - 9:43 am
I love these red doors on the new firehouse. After I’d taken a few photographs, I had a couple of firefighters watching me as I checked out quite a few different angles.
Marcie - Wonderful color and detail. Love the near-perfect symmetry.05/25/2009 - 6:51 am
Kevin Mullins - Great composition and colour. A really vibrant image.05/25/2009 - 7:51 am
oneshotbeyond - these are very special doors! I love most firehouses b/c they do have ultra red finished that are so unique!05/25/2009 - 1:09 pm
Robin - Red doors! Fantastic, Bo. I like the framing and the way the shadows came out.05/25/2009 - 2:28 pm
Bernie Kasper - Great colors and pasterns in the brick and the red doors make a great contrast, great work Bo !!05/25/2009 - 2:46 pm
Gandalf - i like the shadow from the lights.05/26/2009 - 7:57 am
uphilldowndale - What a wonderful red, known as 'post box red' here in the UK.
I'm surprised the fire-fighters didn't pose for you ;) They have that reputation!
I'm some what haunted by a shot I never got to take, I can still see it in my minds eye: I called at our local fire-station for a meeting (they were fund-raising for a charity I'm involved with)but they had all gone out on a 'shout', a call out; as our local station is 'retained' not full time all the crew had come running from work, home or leisure; all their shoes, work boots, trainers even slippers, were lying on the floor under the hooks from where they had grabbed their uniforms........ it made a fascinating snapshot.05/26/2009 - 9:22 am
James Howe - Great shot, I love the color and texture in this image.
Saw this image on "The Weekly Buzz" at http://www.rondubinphotography.com/2009/05/31/the-weekly-bzzzzz-7/.05/31/2009 - 11:08 am
Not too many flowers in the perennial garden yet, but some of the foliage is quite attractive wearing this morning’s rain drops.
The start to the Memorial Day weekend was a rainy one. I watched the sky for awhile this morning, the gray clouds massing dark and brooding. Then the clouds thinned ever so slightly and...
Marcie - Love the warm soft colors..and especially how the leaves are 'wearing' the raindrops. Enjoy the weekend!!!05/23/2009 - 5:23 pm
montucky - Very pretty with the rain and very well composed! I hope your weekend is going well!05/24/2009 - 12:11 am
edvatza - Sometimes we focus so much on the flowers that we (I) forget the beautiful foliage. Nicely composed and captured. Really like the raindrops.05/24/2009 - 4:05 am
Anna Surface - Really like the colors and raindrops. Very nice capture.05/24/2009 - 7:37 am
ceanothe - The rain and the leaf, a magnificent meeting for our eyes!05/24/2009 - 8:50 am
oneshotbeyond - the tones of reddish pinks are lovely...the rain drops make it that much more interesting to view...05/24/2009 - 2:26 pm
Robin - This is a beautiful capture, Bo.
Please send some rain my way. We really need it.05/24/2009 - 2:33 pm
Bernie Kasper - Wonderful textures and color in the foliage Bo, and the water droplets add a great touch, well done !!05/25/2009 - 2:47 pm
suehenryphotography - Coral Bells do have such interesting foliage and you have captured the foliage in all of it's beauty! The rain drops add additional interest. Nicely captured.05/25/2009 - 8:19 pm
Gandalf - The texture for the eyes is wonderful in this photo.05/26/2009 - 7:56 am
ybonesy - I planted several of these this year, but mine are now a sort of yellow-red color. I wonder if they need nutrients.
Loved reading about the foibles of a perennial garden. I'm going through the same thing.05/28/2009 - 11:04 pm
ybonesy - p.s., why do some people make perennials seem so easy?05/28/2009 - 11:04 pm
This showy wildflower is found in woodlands and the fringes of open spaces from late spring to mid-summer. It is pollinated by hummingbirds or moths which can reach deep into the cups of the flower. It is sometimes called a dove plant–when turned upside down some say the flower resembles a flock of doves in...
oneshotbeyond - fabulous title for this shot. the muted colors are so calming to view.05/20/2009 - 12:52 pm
montucky - I wish we had them here as wildflowers, but my wife raises some gorgeous ones in her greenhouse. Very nice photo!05/20/2009 - 10:53 pm
Marcie - Exquisite detail. Love the soft colors. ..and how the background flowers seem to float and melt away.05/21/2009 - 6:18 am
Gandalf - wonderful background - it makes the focused flower float05/21/2009 - 7:59 am
Kevin Mullins - It's a great shot. You got the focus spot on on the flower head. Really nice capture.05/21/2009 - 1:09 pm
bookbabie - Beautiful macro, the lighting is exquisite!05/21/2009 - 2:10 pm
quinncreative - The whole composition is so calming and soothing--the colors, the lighting, the focus. I could almost feel the flowers. Gorgeous!05/21/2009 - 10:55 pm
edvatza - Very nicely done, Bo. I like the way these flowers hang. I also like how the dof works as you move back from flower to flower to flower. Background looks great too!05/22/2009 - 8:01 pm
Bernie Kasper - Fantastic work Bo, these are one of my favorites and you conveyed their beauty well !!05/25/2009 - 2:48 pm
On my walk through the Arboretum this morning, I followed a trail I had never taken before. I ended up at Teal Pond, and had to take a second look at the water. It was covered in white.
When I got closer, I discovered its surface was white with tiny flowers. I’ve searched all my ID...
montucky - I've seen those here, but only a very few and never was able to ID them. They must be very beautiful covering a whole pond!05/19/2009 - 10:17 pm
montucky - I found a western region aquatic plant that is similar as a possible clue:
Ranunculus aquatilis L., White water crowfoot05/19/2009 - 11:27 pm
uphilldowndale - I thought they looked like buttercups too, but I've never seen white or aquatic ones, the flower structure is right though
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-crowfoot05/19/2009 - 11:45 pm
quinncreative - We used to call it Duckgrass. It creates an amazing amount of oxygen.05/20/2009 - 2:31 am
Bo - I finally found a source that has white water-crowfoot located in Wisconsin. Looks like that is a positive ID. Thanks, Terry.05/20/2009 - 6:58 am
Gandalf - great photo05/20/2009 - 8:17 am
Laurie - I don't think I've ever seen those before they are really beautiful. Excellent images.05/20/2009 - 11:04 am
myphotoscout - Excellent shot. I wonder how this would look like with a lensbabies lens.05/21/2009 - 11:32 am
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From a sign at the Sisters’ Cemetery at Sinsinawa Mounds, the Mother house for the Sinsinawa Dominicans:
Sinsinawa Mounds is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the sisters’ story. This is their home. They profess their vows here and then embark on missions to create better choices and tomorrows for many people. Periodically they...
Marcie - Very peaceful...calm...quiet image. Love your point-of-view and how you've captured the repetition of shapes and forms.05/19/2009 - 7:07 am
Anna Surface - I like the wrought iron fence with shadows along with the symmetry of the stones. A quiet place for contemplation.05/19/2009 - 11:40 am
amuirin - That picture looks really good with the blog design, too. That may be irrelevant, but I couldn't help but notice.
I sat thinking for a moment about what kind of life that must be to lead, for those sisters. It seems... narrow to me, and yet they must each of them truly believe there is a meaning to all this-based on the work they do and the life they choose to lead. In a way I kind of envy that lack of uncertainty.05/19/2009 - 12:02 pm
oneshotbeyond - very interesting perspective...05/19/2009 - 12:18 pm
bookbabie - Great perspective, I like how you divided the photo too with 3/4 vertical and 1/4 horizontal.05/19/2009 - 12:46 pm
Preston Surface - Appears the fence is pointing upwards. A good sign. I can respect the life these ladies have lived, but gee whiz.... sure seems a lonesome life all the way to the end.05/19/2009 - 9:23 pm
montucky - I think that really is a place of peace.05/19/2009 - 10:15 pm
Gandalf - The lines, the shadows & the symmetry combine to make this a wonderful photo.
I read through the comments of others, and i don't believe the sisters would view theif life as lonely. I believe the community binds them when they are together or apart. That community must be very powerful.
The photo is a nice tribute to the lives they have lived.05/20/2009 - 8:15 am
An explosion of color found in the gardens at Sinsinawa Mounds, the mother house of the Sinsinawan Dominicans, a religious order of women established in 1847.
montucky - What a pretty color! The background is great with it too!05/17/2009 - 10:46 pm
iheartfilm - The gardens at Sinsinawa Mounds sound nice. Are they big?05/17/2009 - 10:51 pm
Bo - No, there are not large garden spaces. Instead flowers are packed into little spaces, spreading bits of color in unexpected places. Not all the plants are even in yet, as we just passed our frost date. Soon, the annuals will all be in the earth.05/18/2009 - 7:19 am
Anna Surface - Lovely purple explosion... and a very neat flower. I'm always attracted to the purple flowers. :)05/18/2009 - 7:23 am
suehenryphotography - I can't think of the name of these flowers, but....aren't they really, really tiny? Great capture.05/18/2009 - 7:31 am
Bo - I'm hoping someone comes up with the name. I can't figure it out, and I like to name my flowers. And the flower is about 3 or 4 inches in diameter, so it's not the tiny flower you were thinking of.05/18/2009 - 7:41 am
burstmode - it looks like...some kind of skinny passion flower. Whatever, it is beautiful and I have not seen one like it.05/18/2009 - 8:41 am
ankush - beautiful! the foreground and background colors work very well together05/18/2009 - 11:48 am
oneshotbeyond - that is the perfect name for this shot! Bold colors and unique looking flower.05/18/2009 - 1:18 pm
Marcie - Exquisite detail. Love the colors...and the title is perfect!05/18/2009 - 2:14 pm
dJeeeen - very nice! focus is good and thus details are seen. Color is amazing! good capture!05/19/2009 - 6:27 am
Gandalf - this photo truly explodes off the computer screen. Great name and beautiful photo.05/20/2009 - 8:11 am
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