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.
For as many years as I have been visiting the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin to see the Christmas Tree filling the rotunda, it has always had a certain simplicity about it which I love. The tree sparkles with lights. There are hundreds of hand crafted paper ornaments made by Wisconsin school children. And there has always been a model train circling the tree. Nothing fancy – this year a Wisconsin & Southern replica engine and a few cars are traveling ’round and ’round along a circular track – but it follows a rather nice tradition.
Maria - What a nice image with that train in red and gold against ta colurful lamps in the background. Merry christmas.12/24/2009 - 4:48 am
Carsten - It is a very nice and colorful Christmas image.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Bo.12/24/2009 - 5:51 am
Marcie - Such fun!! Love the color and light. Wishing you and yours all the best!!!12/24/2009 - 7:16 am
Anna - Oh! I love trains and especially toy trains. Preston and I were longingly looking at a train set the other day. This is such a nice, bright and Christmasy shot!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you and yours from Preston and I. :)12/24/2009 - 8:46 am
Montucky - That's a great tradition! For many years we also had a train that ran beneath or Christmas tree. Happy Holidays!12/24/2009 - 9:29 am
@Bosque_Bill - Thanks. Brought back fond memories of my model trains at Christmas.12/24/2009 - 10:23 am
Debi - I adore trains!!!!! Just stopping by on Christmas Eve to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a delightful New Year. Thank you for a fabulous year of beautiful photography and amazing prose, Bo.12/24/2009 - 11:36 am
QuoinMonkey - Beautiful photograph, Bo. I love trains and have almost always lived near them. Even now, we hear the nearby train whistle once in a while. Happy Holidays, my friend. So happy to have met you through the blogosphere.12/24/2009 - 1:50 pm
Molly - It's your own "Polar Express". :)12/24/2009 - 11:47 pm
amuirin - Ooohhh... your blog looks *beautiful*.
And trains are so festive. They aren't the first thing you think of, either, at Christmas, but very Christmassy.
I hope your holiday is a happy one, Bo.12/25/2009 - 2:42 am
Richard - Merry Christmas Bo. :)12/25/2009 - 6:50 am
Bo Mackison - Merry Christmas to all. Thanks for visiting and all your kind comments.12/25/2009 - 8:22 pm
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