Category: #butterflies
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My photos on FAA
Canvas prints ON SALE In time for the holidays! Click here! https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/shop/canvas+prints My nature, wildlife, and other photographs are featured almost daily on Fine Art America. Canvas prints of my photos SOLD OUT at Flagstaff’s Arboretum. Browse here to see why! Find, buy, and gift, my photos of South Dakota, Arizona, California, Texas, and Missouri!…
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Butterfly season!
It is summertime here in Flagstaff, Arizona, and butterflies abound. As of today I have posted 18 of my beautiful butterfly photos to my business webpage on Fine Art America. Please shop as you browse! But because I so value my viewers and customers, here is one just for you. Download it for free (preserving…
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New photos on FAA!
wilcephotos says, “please shop big or bug photos!” 😉 From big to bug: Deer and butterfly If you like these two photos, you’ll love the two similar pix I just posted. Click here for the Southwestern Azure and this one for the mule deer photos on Fine Art America. Please shop while you’re there!!
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It’s great when other photographers notice!
Fine Art America (FAA) is a wonderful artists’ community. We photographers post our work there— and, often, to sell it. But the other reward for good work is the community’s recognition. It has warmed my heart to get such recognition! And by a variety of the marvelous groups in FAA. I have gathered some of…
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“A Butterfly Named Doris” revisited
In late 2021 I blogged about one of the glorious butterflies I’d photographed at Butterfly Wonderland in Scottsdale, Arizona. I have revisited the photo of “Doris longwing”, editing it in new ways, from scratch. Many products incorporating this photo are for sale h!ere. While you’re there, see what other photos of mine are for sale!…
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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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Hitchhiker butterfly
The other day, I came in from a photographic moment down on my knees in the front yard. This put my legs in direct contact with a pile of dead plant matter. So I should have seen this coming— a hitchhiker apparently crawled onto my blue jeans. So it was not until I came inside…
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Monarch Discovery
Google Doodles— the graphics atop Google’s splash page that change every day—are sometimes worth taking the time to consider. Such was the case with the 9 January 2016 Google Doodle. The Doodle acknowledges the “41st Anniversary of the Discovery of the Mountain of the Butterflies” The mountain in Mexico where the monarchs “overwinter” is the…
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How great to have an arboretum nearby
It seems to me that supporting one’s local arboretum is a darned good idea, if one is lucky enough to have one. The Arboretum of Flagstaff is part of a network that includes the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix (dbg.org). That’s doubly convenient for us, since we travel to Phoenix from time to time. Four…
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A summer of learning: Butterfly upperwings and underwings
My first “wow” butterfly moment in the summer of 2015, described in Butterflies Part I, was really about butterflies and moths, and their antennae. The second moment of amazement is this realization: One butterfly, and in fact each individual wing of that one butterfly, can be very different when seen from above or below. Their…

