Seeded Earth Studio » photography and musings from the Midwest

Marcie - Thanks for all of the great links. As for camera bags - you may want to check-out 'epiphanie' and 'Jill-e'. Unfortunately - I can't speak about either of them..but they do look good!03/10/2010 - 6:41 am

Gandalf - The wall of pix is great. Are you up there?03/10/2010 - 7:37 am

Molly - Awesome photo.03/10/2010 - 10:09 am

Anna Surface - Love that photo! Simply lovely and great composition. I've clicked over and looked over the article at Memoir Space. I'm interested in something like this. I bookmarked this and will read more tomorrow morning when I am rested.03/09/2010 - 6:37 pm

Montucky - I love that photo too! The cactus pottery with its bright colors goes beautifully withe the rough textured wall. So typical of Arizona!03/09/2010 - 9:00 pm

Gandalf - The look through hole is a great visual.03/10/2010 - 7:35 am

Molly - Haha, love this. Makes me smile for some reason. :)03/10/2010 - 10:07 am

Rosie leaves 'n blooms - Hello there and welcome to Blotanical - I hope you enjoy meeting new gardeners over there - normally I post on blogs and send a message through Blotanical but this week I don't have alot of free time. Pop over to my scottish garden blog sometime. I too am yearning for those spring days - they can't come soon enough03/08/2010 - 2:44 pm

Montucky - Love the green! Here now there are tiny green things emerging from the ground. So welcome!03/08/2010 - 7:45 pm

Marcie - Yes...we're being teased by spring as well. Love the repetition of pattern here. Almost abstract..but not quite.03/09/2010 - 4:24 am

Gandalf - great visual pattern, and alas Spring will come and ski season will be done dancing. :(03/09/2010 - 7:34 am

Molly - Springtime! Gotta love it. This is a simple but very pleasing shot. :)03/09/2010 - 10:43 am

Marcie - Extraordinary architectural image. Love the symmetry..and how you managed to keep all of the lines from converging. A wonderful old building.03/07/2010 - 3:41 am

Montucky - That's a beautiful piece of architecture! Great shot!03/07/2010 - 8:00 pm

Gandalf - Great perspective. There are so many interesting visuals in this photo from the reflection at the base of the water tower to the shadows on the big buildings. Very nice.03/08/2010 - 8:18 am

Molly - My neck kinda hurts thinking of looking up to get this photo. Your effort was worth it. Very nice.03/09/2010 - 10:42 am

Anna Surface - LOL all the way around. Strange looking mannequins and some store person has a weird sense of taste and humor. I sure would love to have a pair of binoculars, though. That is too funny of the little guy with the big gun camera coming over to snap what he thought you were snapping. I've had that happen too. There is nothing like going to a well-attended event and rubbing elbows with the big-time photographers with lens way out there. I'd be there totally involved with some little detail and here comes one of the big guns sniffing around wondering what I'm seeing. LOL Oh, I've had my picture taken too and I'd turn on a dime and take their picture. Funny, how when out with a camera slung around the neck you run into other photographers. Fun post, Bo.03/06/2010 - 8:48 pm

Montucky - I think that trash can deserved a much more elegant location that what it has. The manikins reminded me of an old college prank a couple of friends and I pulled off one time in Seattle. We stood on a down town street and stared and pointed to a spot well up on a tall building. We didn't say a word, but a crowd soon formed, all looking up where we were looking, After a bit, we sort of melted away, leaving the crowd all looking up, by that time with their own momentum.03/06/2010 - 9:18 pm

Sue - LOL Great post...and funny too!03/07/2010 - 12:41 pm

debsgarden - This is so funny! I especially like the brainless manikins. I think the guy was taking a picture of you, so he could tell the funny story of the photographer shooting a trash can!03/07/2010 - 8:08 pm

Gandalf - Great political commentary. Keep this one for election time. Unfortunately it applies to both parties.03/08/2010 - 8:16 am

Molly - Haha, that's a great story. Made me smile.03/09/2010 - 10:40 am

Gandalf - I just got a crick in my neck with that photo. Nice sky.03/05/2010 - 8:51 am

bernie kasper - Great shot Bo, love the perspective and the reflections are wonderful, well done !!03/05/2010 - 3:55 pm

Anna Surface - Great framing of the tall building by tall buildings pointing up. Nice reflections of the puffy cloud blue sky. :)03/05/2010 - 4:35 pm

Montucky - Great composition, and I love the sky.03/05/2010 - 11:06 pm

Molly - That sky is pretty, especially after all the gray skies we have had.03/07/2010 - 12:50 pm

Karen Wallace - What beautiful blooms Bo! I'm thrilled that even in the snowiest of times you can see a little 'tropicalness'...03/04/2010 - 2:52 am

Marcie - Exquisite detail. WOW!03/04/2010 - 7:40 am

Gandalf - Very lovely. I find orchids to be exquisit flowers.03/04/2010 - 7:54 am

Anna Surface - Bo, you are so fortunate to have Olbrich Botanical Gardens close by. These are exquisite orchids... as others have stated. Lovely close-up, composition and detail bringing the flowers forth in a pop with hello faces. :)03/04/2010 - 8:41 am

debsgarden - You have some beautiful photographs on your blog! This orchid s a wonderful color. I just happened upon your site in a roundabout way through blotanical. I will visit again!03/04/2010 - 9:50 am

Molly - Simply lovely. And they are purple which makes them even prettier!03/04/2010 - 4:58 pm

Montucky - How beautiful! I would love to have a place like that close enough to visit on a cold winter's day.03/04/2010 - 8:03 pm

Debi - Sigh. I'm so ready for spring!03/05/2010 - 12:29 pm

bernie kasper - Beautiful image Bo..I can never photograph Orchids to my liking but you really nailed this one, fine work !!03/05/2010 - 3:57 pm

Sue - Wonderful color and detail. Lovely image.03/07/2010 - 12:38 pm

joey - So lovely and fun to photograph!03/10/2010 - 8:27 am

Gandalf - Interesting photo and great idea linking to articles.03/03/2010 - 11:28 am

Joanna Young - Bo, thanks for the links - it's a nice addition to your material - and useful for the likes of me. Re the quote on not being able to help it... I'm no photographer but I know I can't help it either! Looking, searching, trying, climbing down into ditches, lying in the mud to get that little bit closer up... I just can't help it ;-)03/03/2010 - 1:19 pm

Bo Mackison - Yes indeed, Joanna. I so get that. I can't help taking photographs --anywhere, everywhere. And yes, Joanna, you too are a photographer. Stop denying it! :-)03/03/2010 - 1:34 pm

Debi - This is a great idea! Thanks for the links, Bo. I read a lot too and it's great to add even more photo sources. We can't learn too much, can we? Nope.03/03/2010 - 2:36 pm

Montucky - Excellent image, Bo! The scene has a wonderful fresh and bright look to it!03/03/2010 - 10:25 pm

Marcie - Love the lines..the curves..the color. What a wonderful architectural image rendered abstract!!!03/04/2010 - 7:40 am

Anna Surface - Oh, I really like the sweeping and colorful curves. I read a lot in photography too.I appreciate these links and I'm bookmarking Joe McNally’s article. Great idea, Bo. :)03/04/2010 - 8:37 am

Molly - I love the lines and light of this shot.03/04/2010 - 4:56 pm

Sue - Beautifully composed image. Love it! And, thanks for the links. I'm off to check them out!03/07/2010 - 12:37 pm

Gandalf - A very fun photo.03/02/2010 - 10:49 am

Marcie - What fun..and a great find!!!03/02/2010 - 12:54 pm

Montucky - Those were the days and the Christmas lights are very fitting with them!03/02/2010 - 9:47 pm

Susan See - Love the lighting and reflections!03/02/2010 - 10:29 pm

Debi - So freakin' creative - LOVE this idea!!! Gotta show the teenager when she gets home!03/03/2010 - 2:35 pm

Susan - Love it...shiny and sparkly...and of course, Mexican food...yummmmm!03/04/2010 - 1:56 pm

Molly - This photo made me smile!03/04/2010 - 4:55 pm

Sue - Fabulous and fun!!!03/07/2010 - 12:34 pm

Molly - Decisions, decisions, right? LOL03/01/2010 - 1:24 pm

Anna - An omelet with cheese and peppers with a good dash of hot sauce would taste very good! I like photographing bottles... with stuff or not. Nice hot stuff shot. :)03/01/2010 - 4:46 pm

Montucky - An omelette sounds good, and of course plenty of the good stuff to put on it. That looks just a little like one of the shelves in our kitchen.03/01/2010 - 9:27 pm

Gandalf - great photo. Love the hot sauce.03/02/2010 - 10:48 am

Debi - This makes me hungry. Everything tastes better with hot sauce on it, and I'm crazy about Mexican omelets with hot sauce. Tabasco is KING in my world but I'm up to trying them all! Next time I visit Wisconsin I so need to try this place - I'm salivating!03/03/2010 - 2:34 pm