Category: Arizona
-
Bee healthy!
Honeybees, hive killers, and vaccines Without pollinators, we might not have food. With pollinators come food and beauty. Beauty like this — https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/featured/the-blue-knighthood-of-bees-jim-wilce.html or this freebie for y’all At a time when disease is wiping out whole insect colonies, a new vaccine shows promise in fighting the bacteria that have been destroying honeybee colonies. Here […]
-
Sunrise for the new year: My FAA-featured photo
Perhaps you feel that your January, your 2023, feel like they’re off to a good start. That’s precisely what I hope for you! Sunrises like the one in my photo, “Sunrise Over [McMilllan] Mesa” (just featured on the amazing Fine Art America group, Daily Promotion) make me feel hopeful! Please check out all the spectacular […]
-
Various artists capturing “star trails”!
These photographers and other artists are simply terrific! I am very proud to honor their work here, and humbled that (through the good graces of Fine Art America), my offerings have found their way into the collection as numbers 17-20. Stay tuned to “outsoors with camera,” and please visit https://wilcephotos.myshopify.com! Or go straight to star […]
-
Photos & Paintings of Sunsets: Many Artists!
What’s not to love about these gorgeous works of art — photographs, paintings and other media. Once again I get to boost my fellow artists, and I am deeply honored to have my work displayed too. Thank you Fine Art America! (Apologies for repeated attempts to get the link below to work, resulting in duplicate […]
-
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 […]
-
Great pieces of art capturing “Dramatic Landscapes”!
Check out these paintings and photos, including some of mine, that bring to the eye beautiful and dramatic landscapes! Click this link to enjoy works of art by OTHER artists, as I give them a boost! dramatic landscapes southwest art And here is one of my own— previously unpublished (to the best of my knowledge)!
-
Cinder Cones And Clouds: Original And “Final”
If you liked the Ravens shots, before and after editing, you’ll love this pairing. On 10/15/22 around sunset on a cold, cloudy day, I drove from home (elevation 7000′) to the Arizona Snowbowl (elevation 9200). This photo was shot on “my return to ground” closer to 7000′. You will see that my edits involved brightening […]
-
Snowy pre-dawn morning
I confess— I’m a super early riser. So this photo was taken at 4:45 today (February 17, 2022). My fingers were cold. My face was cold. The temperature was roughly 15F at that time. All that aside, I wanted to take a walk and I was looking for a particular scenario to photograph— the moon, […]
-
Pattern Repetition: Parallelism in Nature
Scroll down now if you want to skip the musings of this former academic and just see the photos! Most of my professional life was spent in linguistic anthropology— that subfield of anthropology dealing with the role of language in culture and society. Many of us linguistic anthropologists study poetics. Russian emigré and Harvard professor […]
-
Winter Scenes– Ice, Icicles, and Snow
I thought you might like to see some of my winter photos, focused on ice, icicles, and snow. Click on any of the photos to go to my Smugmug page to access more information, or to make a purchase.
-
This Morning’s Moonset
I drove up Snowbowl Road and managed to arrive at the top of the road just in time to get my camera out, steady it on top of my car, and shoot. That was 5:19 a.m. Tomorrow morning’s moonset should be at 6:01. Ample time to plan, get the tripod and camera ready, shoot some […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]