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.
Gandalf - I love the perspective in this photo. My eye was lead from the foreground to the distant view. Very nice.12/01/2009 - 11:29 am
Debi - I want to be right...there. Lovely.12/01/2009 - 3:04 pm
Ed Vatza - This time of the year can be difficult. Grays and browns predominate and for me at least, get boring fast. Keeping eyes, and minds, open can lead to some nice images, Bo.12/01/2009 - 6:44 pm
… a show and a web store.
I am exhibiting my photography products at the first ever “Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Expo” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The show will be emphasizing products that promote sustainability, recycling and locally produced goods. If you are in the Madison area, come visit and check out...
Montucky - Good for you, Bo! Best of luck!11/28/2009 - 7:07 pm
Marcie - Exciting!! Congratulations and best-of-luck with the exhibit. Love the warm tones and colors in this image. Simply beautiful!!11/30/2009 - 6:51 am
Gandalf - I missed the show (long drive and I didn't see the post until today). I hope it went well. The photo is marvelous.11/30/2009 - 10:54 am
Debi - OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome, Bo!!!!!!!! I'm off to check out the links RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! Congratulations AGAIN!!!12/01/2009 - 3:03 pm
Sue - Congratulations on the exhibit. Sounds exciting!12/09/2009 - 4:39 am
Pheasant Branch Conservancy, in Middleton, the city just north of Madison, contains a marsh with open water, springs, prairies, meadows, lowland forest, and wooded hills. These various habitats sustain a wide variety of plants and animals, including some that are threatened or endangered. Although surrounded on three sides by urban development, the conservancy provides a...
Madison was fogged in today, but it wasn’t my best day for photography. Early this morning, with the fog swirling around the second story window of my studio, I removed the screen from the window. Then I preset my camera and set it up on the tripod for a skyward shot. Hundreds of Canada Geese...
Montucky - I've had a few of *THOSE* days too! LOL! Still nice to peek out into that fog though.11/23/2009 - 11:12 pm
Anna - Oh nice! I like the composition and treatment in b&w.11/24/2009 - 10:15 am
Preston - I loved your write up. The battery in the bag must have topped your day. Dont' feel bad, Anna and I have driven miles in search of photos and come home with nothing to speak of. Then in the backyard the sun cuts through the picket fence hitting a blade of grass with a florescent color butterfly sitting on it. Usually the best shots come to you.11/24/2009 - 6:27 pm
QuinnCreative - It's brave of you to admit it. It gives hope to the rest of us who have not-such-perfect days, too.11/25/2009 - 12:56 am
Marcie - A relief to know that I'm not the only one who has one of THOSE kinds of days...
Love the mood you've captured here. The fog rendered in b&w is perfect!!!11/25/2009 - 6:58 am
Gandalf - Ditto to the above. I love the moodiness of the photo.11/25/2009 - 11:17 am
Though I’m not quite ready for the snows to come, I’m wearying of brown in all its many variations. It’s nice enough with a dose of sunshine and blue skies, but already I am missing the bright colors that were in the gardens only a few weeks ago. And now snow is predicted for Wednesday,...
Montucky - I'm also a little weary of the browns and in fact am thankful for all of our evergreens. We are supposed to have snow tomorrow too and I rather look forward to it because it's easier to get out in it than rain this time of year. I am concerned for the travelers though.11/21/2009 - 11:43 pm
Debi - I'm a freakazoid who happens to prefer autumn, winter and spring so browns are good for me. However, I must say that the colorful sunrises and sunsets reflected in our lake are framed nicely by the dark bare trees and brown fields. Maybe look up for awhile and rejoice in the beauty of winter skies, if Wisconsin's skies have parties with the sun, that is! Gaze upward into the heavens and watch the clouds play; pray for raucous sunrises and sunsets that can't be seen during dry summer months. What, am I writing a book here? Geez...11/22/2009 - 7:29 am
Marcie - This is SO November. I - too - have been finding that the only colors are browns and blues. Love the horizontal banding of color..the composition.11/22/2009 - 10:57 am
QuinnCreative - Back East, we used to say "NOflower, NOsun, NOvember." Those last few days before snow starts are very bleak. This photo makes it seem attractive and crisp, though!11/22/2009 - 9:29 pm
Anna - This is a nice capture though of the brown straight grass and reaching naked trees in the blue sky. The brown here in Kansas has deepened into burnt sienna and reds. And I wondered yesterday while out shooting the November landscape if there could be an art to the November look in its starkness laid bare. And that is why I really like the shot you have here. I am looking forward to snow that will stick! :)11/23/2009 - 9:49 am
Gandalf - I enjoyed the photo. I like the starkness of this season and best of all ski season follows Autumn.11/23/2009 - 11:01 am
I was out exploring the local Arboretum, simply to see what I could see. In all the many layers of November browns, there was this bit of color – one last stand of Purple Asters still sporting a few blossoms of bright purples and yellows.
Gandalf - Better late than never. I'm glad your exploration turned up a beautiful find.11/20/2009 - 9:45 am
Montucky - Interesting to see them still blooming. They are among the last to bloom here too, but the last ones I saw were over a month ago.11/20/2009 - 8:01 pm
Anna - A wonderful find of the lovely asters!11/21/2009 - 9:24 am
Debi - My New England Asters have been long gone. This is a great find, indeed! Cause for celebration!11/22/2009 - 7:24 am
November has been a very brown month in Wisconsin. Though it’s not unusual to get a good snow or two, it’s been a rather mild November and I’ve only seen a few snow flurries. After a disappointing October which seemed rather like November, it’s only fair to have a November that is rather like October....
Gandalf - While I love the riot of colors in the Spring and Summer flowers, I do find the seed heads starkly beautiful. Very nice image.11/19/2009 - 7:01 am
Anna - I love the colors and the subject. Beautiful image, Bo. And I really like what you have done here with this blog. It looks great!11/19/2009 - 8:03 am
Ed Vatza - While I am not sure about the spray coming across the front, the autumnal tones are superb, Bo!11/19/2009 - 7:34 pm
Marcie - Absolutely gorgeous brown tones and colors. Wonderful composition and light.11/20/2009 - 7:19 am
Susan - ...you have captured the colors of fall that I love best...
Thank you for your continued, beautiful work, Bo!
Susan11/23/2009 - 8:17 am
Gandalf - I love the bubbles in the glass and how it contrasts the panes without them. The reflection of the trees in the top left pane is way cool.11/17/2009 - 10:57 am
ybonesy - I really love this. That old brown pottery has such a simple elegance to it, and seeing it in this old window...well, it's perfect.
Glad you got the old blog up again. At least you can always use the wp one as a back-up if need be.11/18/2009 - 8:59 am
Marcie - Love..love..love this. Such beautiful glass..and so very timeless!!11/18/2009 - 7:59 pm
Debi - I love this, too, Bo. Beauty is all around us but it takes a special person to capture images of such simple beauty in exquisite fashion the way you do.11/22/2009 - 7:23 am
Molly - The picture is great, I have to say you find some pretty awesome quotes to accompany your photographs. Love the photo and the quote.02/18/2010 - 9:52 pm
I know this is a pile of leaves. I happen to like piles of leaves, but I thought it a good idea if I had a reason for posting a photo of a pile of leaves. So…for those of you who weren’t in scouts for half your childhood or trained to be a naturalist or...
Marcie - Wonderful! Love the abstract nature of this..and how the leaves fill the frame.11/16/2009 - 6:43 am
Gandalf - Great story. I'll actually be able to remember the way to tell the difference.11/17/2009 - 10:59 am
Debi - That's a perfect way to remember the difference. Thanks! If you have a moment would you please identify the leaves in the photo I took in Wisconsin? On my Giraffe Head Tree blog? A friend thinks perhaps they're White Mulberry. ??? Also the huge tree, which may indeed be the White Mulberry. It's hard to tell when all the leaves are on the ground and scattered everywhere - which leaves went with which tree, that sort of thing. Love your photos and posts, and your new blog arrangement is very nice.11/22/2009 - 7:21 am
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor ...
Ed Vatza - The budding genius here was about to ask what the blue stuff was. DUH! Thank God I figured it out before looking REALLY STUPID! For some reason, at first glance, it looked a lot like they were patches of blue leaves. Oh well. I really like the perspective and colors here in this image, BO. Good work.11/14/2009 - 3:10 pm
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