Charleen Haby Maxwell is an American photographer whose birthright was the Big Sky prairie at the feet of the Beartooth Mountains. The foothills and black loam wheat fields crowned by not-so-distant mountains formed her visual concepts of landscape and negative space. After graduate school (MA, Clinical Psychology) she married her high school love and moved east, where the new marriage survived restoring a 1915 colonial home on post-graduate salaries. There she reconnected with the soil, learning to garden in magical earth where the wind carried the smell of the sea mixed with lilac. It was the fractals and hyperbolic curves plants inhabit which urged her hands to grasp her father’s old Nikon F, a childhood gift and favored pastime. Now living in Austin, Texas with her husband and four children, she is exploring the boundaries of the photographic medium with unconventional subjects and processes via both analog and digital means. Primary themes through much of her work are the intersections of the natural world and the built environment, and interpretations of historical movements and aesthetics in art vis a vis photography. Her work has been exhibited in juried shows around the US and in Mexico.