Bitterroot
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I've been a musician, then a teacher and a writer, then founder of two medical education companies dedicated to improving care for kidney patients. Interwoven with all this is my life as a wife and mom. Became interested in photography when I first saw pictures of my children shining forth from my computer monitor, and realized a whole new world had opened up to me!
I've since become quite absorbed in photography. Landscape photography is a great interest for me, with a focus on the places I frequent in Montana (where I was born and raised) and Wisconsin (where I live now.)
Photography allows me to study structural details of flowers, architecture, rocks, water - elements that I didn't see the first time around. Our senses can't take in and record the fullness of what we see every day. For me, photography crystallizes a magical moment that might otherwise be swallowed up in the concerns of daily life. Photography makes me slow down and really try to SEE it.
Testimonial
Bitterroot offers us a glimpse into a world of dreamlike beauty, which I'm uncertain we'd appreciate as keenly even if we were standing by her side. She trains our eye on the lushness of a landscape gilded with sunlight and the mystery of one cloaked in fog. She reminds us of how small we are beneath a grand mountain range capped by a vast blue sky and how enormous and clumsy we are in comparison with the delicate structures of the microcosms she discovers. This rare ability to open people's eyes to new ways of looking at the world about them is the mark of a true artist.
Testimonial written by Amy Stanton
