In 1905, Bodine was a founder and first president of the Lantern and Lens Gild, a club for women photographers, which grew out of
Mathilde Weil's photography classes for women at
Drexel University. Bodine and Nina Fisher Lewis shared first prize for a botanical photograph, second prize for an interior photograph, and second prize for a portrait, at the guild's first annual exhibition in 1913. Bodine photographed plants and animals, especially hummingbirds, finches, and flying squirrels, during summers in
Northeast Harbor, Maine, and made documentary films about them. She wrote in detail about the equipment she used and the challenges she faced in this work. "I know of no branch of picture-taking more interesting than this special kind," she said of her work, adding that "there is infinite variety in it, sufficient difficulties to make it absorbing, and a very large proportion of rewarding results." Bodine was a member of the Amateur Motion Picture Club of America of Philadelphia. Films by Bodine included
Humming-birds (1931),
Ruby-Throated Humming-bird (1931). Bodine wrote articles about her work, including "Adventures in Taming Wild Birds at Birdbank" (1923), and "Holiday with Humming Birds" (1928) for
National Geographic magazine. The latter article described rigging bottles of sweet liquid disguised as flowers to attract hummingbirds, and inspired the creation of blown-glass hummingbird feeders by Laurence and
May Rogers Webster, soon after. Bodine spoke to the Woman's City Club in 1925, the national conference of the
National Audubon Society in 1930, and to a meeting of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia in 1939. ==Personal life==