Category: #photography
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Sedona Wetlands: Birds and bees and butterflies
After some 20 years of meetings and countless hours of planning, the City of Sedona has developed a unique—and prize-winning— wastewater treatment facility. The treatment plant itself was finished some four years ago, but the unique thing about it is what happened next— channeling the highest quality treated water (meeting A+ Effluent Quality Standards) into…
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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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Madison Dragonflies Mating
I intend these photos as a “study”— an exercise producing a series of sketches, but in this case photographic sketches. Most of my photos reflect a great gift of tolerance, if not quite trust, on the part of the photographic object. I came across these conjoined dragonflies in the corn fields that make up one…
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Spider At Home In Its Web
Encounters with various sorts of creatures, all beautiful in their own way, were among the highlights of our recent trip to Iowa and Wisconsin, including this spider in its web at Ledges State Park Madrid, Iowa (not far from Des Moines). Click here for a range of photos from our trip to Iowa and Wisconsin…
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Moon, September 27, 2015
How could one resist photographing the moon on this special night, the night of the complete lunar eclipse? I was in Wisconsin for the big astronomical event. These three photos capture the moon as seen looking southward from the shores of Lake Monona (Madison) before the eclipse began (photos 1 and 2, when the night threatened to…
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Yellow-rumped warblers
Over the years, I have seen far more “Yellow-rumped” or “Audubon’s” than any other warbler species, and I’ve seen them from Florida to Arizona and California. Yet the pleasure in seeing these warblers with four yellow patches (on the throat, wings, and rump) never goes stale. These photos feature the same individual, perched on a…
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Encounter with a Coronado Skink
We’ve been taking advantage of a series of hikes organized as part of the Roving Rangers Program — a wonderful service offered through a collaboration of the US Forest Service and the National Park Service in the Flagstaff area. The last such hike we took led us along the Hidden Hollow trail, where we came upon…
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Laguna Beach sojourn
I’ve spent the last week in southern California— in Claremont (subject of a future posting) and Laguna Beach, a lovely smallish city lapped by the waves of the Pacific Ocean, some-time home to dolphins, with attractive old cottages in the town above, overlooking the ocean. Photos from this trip can be found here: http://www.wilcephotos.com/Beyond-northern-Arizona/ I…
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Looking back: New and old photos
I was looking through some photos that are up to a decade old today, because I remembered some of them fondly. Three cameras are represented here— a Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z6 (2004-2008), a Fujifilm Finepix S6500fd, and my current Canon Powershot SX50 HS (with just a few shots between the Finepix era and the Powershot era…
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