Category: #bird photography
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WilcePhotos Sells Landscape!
Wow, someone in California just bought a 36×12″ print of a photo I took while visiting my hometown, Claremont. Here is the announcement on Fine Art America! Given my goal, of re-branding myself and my work, emphasizing landscape photographs, this is very encouraging. Thank you so much for your encouragement! A gift for you now—…
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FORTUNATE!
[FORTUNATE PHOTOGRAPHER!] (That’s my answer to WordPress’s question of the day, “What is one word that describes you?” I am SO HAPPY to share this with you– my photo has now been featured by three wonderful Fine Art America groups– Panoramas, The Outdoor Photographer, and Out West! https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/featured/panoramic-view-of-dawn-clouds-over-mountain-jim-wilce.html SECOND… I feel very lucky just to…
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Texas Photos
Follow the link below to see the eight photos I have posted thus far from our early-March photo- expedition to Texas. https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/collections/texas+travels THank you!
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New!!!
See my latest photos including recents from Texas! Where else can you see my latest photos? Fine Art America https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/art?sort=recentlyadded Shopify Shutterstock https://www.shutterstock.com/g/JAMES+M+WILCE+JR pexels.com (free content, or make a donation to help defray the high cost of photography and travel) All of my photos on Pexels.com https://www.pexels.com/@jim-wilce-423947101 Texas Travels on Pexels.com https://www.pexels.com/collections/texas-travels-vvdm89f/ I SO appreciate…
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T-Shirts With Beautiful Designs!
Promoting Other Artists’ Work (and my own) Click on lower case “t-shirts” below to see the wearable art! t-shirts Can’t see my t-shirts? Try this: https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/shop/tshirts
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More featuring of other artists: Birds in flight!
Along the lines of a couple of my posts yesterday, here are more GORGEOUS photos, almost all by other photographers. The theme of all of these works of art is BIRDS IN FLIGHT. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! My several should be in positions 17-20. Oh, and FineArtAmerica, sponsoring this…
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Ravens: Showing You Originals And Final Versions
Sometimes it is interesting for photographer and audience to compare unedited or original versions with their “final” counterparts. (My images are almost never final, but always potential subjects for reworking.) Here I show you two raven photos that I just uploaded to Fine Art America, but you get to see what FAA folks do not–…
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Puddingstone Reservoir February 2022
“Puddingstone” is the common name referring to the artificial lake at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas, southern California. It is an excellent site for birding. I was there, outdoorswithcamera, on February 8 and 9. This post focuses on waterfowl photos, all available as digital downloads. I am still saving up for a…
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Launching My Photography Business With This Post! Birds, Bees, And Their Habitat in Claremont, CA
For the very first time, I am making it simple for people to buy my photographs. Read more to see what photos are for sale, how to buy them, etc.! Claremont California occupies a special place in my heart, not only because loved ones live there but because many of my formative years were th…
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Wing Flapping Displays As Agonistic Behavior
I introduced this series of posts addressing “agonistic behavior” with the following definition, from the Wikipedia article on the subject: “The term has broader meaning than aggressive behaviour because it includes threats, displays, retreats, placation, and conciliation.” This post highlights wing flapping by ducks as an example of agonistic behavior that is clearly not fighting (but could…
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Agonistic Behavior: Small Vs. Large Once More
One clash, two photos— Red-winged Blackbird Harrassing Great Blue Heron on banks of Francis Short Pond. In the first, the blackbird passes by the heron. In the second, the heron seems to me more worried. Once again two species clash, and once again the smaller seems to have the upper hand— or at least it…
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The Agoni(stic) And the Ecstacy (Or Not): Bird Vs. Mammal
Juncos are fairly tough birds. They hiss and click if you unwittingly get near their nests. So if they can challenge humans, ground squirrels may well appear to them to be relatively easy to chase off. That is the way it seemed a month ago when two juncos challenged a rock squirrel in our front…
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“Agonistic Behavior” Among Birds: More Than Just Fighting
A useful introduction to the term “agonistic behavior” is found here,” from Wikipedia—”Agonistic behaviour is any social behaviour related to fighting. The term has broader meaning than aggressive behaviour because it inecludes threats, displays, retreats, placation, and conciliation.” My camera and I see it all the time, from our bird bath to clashes in the (relative) wild. I have documented such…
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Motion Blur Photography #3: Flock of Geese
You have noticed by now that there are two connected ponds on the Old Walnut Canyon Road (the road that leads to Walnut Canyon National Monument) that attract a variety of waterfowl as well as ospreys, bald eagles, and swallows. Once again I turn to my cache of photos taken there for another favorite— the…
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Motion Blur #2: Photographing American Avocets in Flight
I live hundreds of miles inland from the Pacific, but late in August, Flagstaff was visited by a flock of American Avocets. As you saw in my first Motion Blur post, the technique produces some cool effects. (By the way, like yesterday’s post, this shot was taken at the Old Walnut Canyon Road Ponds. I…