Marcie Scudder - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

My passion and interest for the visual world and photography began at a very young age. As a child I  was the proud owner of a Kodak Instamatic camera that I used to capture anything and everything in my knee-high world. In high school, I received my first SLR camera as a gift, and became quite quickly obsessed with darkroom processing and printing.

Although trained, educated and working professionally as an architect, I never once stopped practicing photography. Throughout all of my college and adult years, I  was known to always carry a camera, turning my lens on anything and everything that captivated and moved me. In 2004, I retired my old analog SLR in exchange for a digital one, and a whole new world of creative opportunity opened to me.

A true believer in daily practice, I am out with my camera every day recording the world as I see it thru my particular lens. The magic happens in the moments and transitions between the poses…the beauty is in the unexpected and everyday ordinary. By using natural light and whatever the moment presents, I aim to capture the hidden beauty and emotion that lies beyond the obvious. I like to catch the fleeting art of life – both the messy and the magical all at once and together.

From my home studio, I work as an architect specializing in residential design. I am passionate about yoga – and like my photography – practice daily, using its teachings as sources of inspiration and focus. A mother of three almost-grown children, and still married after all of these years, I live in a suburb just west of Boston.

The process and possibility of combining both word and image is what has sparked this blog. I, along with Toni Johnson, am one of the co-founders of Vision and Verb.