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 […]

  jwilce

  January 21, 2023

  #bees, #colors, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, #wings, Arizona, insect behavior, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, outdoor photography

  #insects, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, bees, echinacea, flowers, honeybees

• Snow Piling Up: Mounds

  Snow piling up in my backyard.

  jwilce

  January 16, 2023

  #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, Arizona, Mirrorless cameras, outdoor photography

  #Arizona, #getolympus, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff, hummocks, snowfall, winter storms

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  January 5, 2023

  #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photography, Arizona, Mirrorless cameras, OM1 camera, outdoor photography, Sunrises

  fineartamerica, PhotoCollections, Shopify

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  December 14, 2022

  #nightsky, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, Arizona, Mirrorless cameras, Mountains, OM1 camera, outdoor photography, San Francisco Peaks, Sunrises

  #Arizona, #getolympus, #nature, #olympusphotography, #photography, #startrails, Flagstaff

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  December 7, 2022

  #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #technological improvement, Arizona, holiday gifts, Mirrorless cameras, Mountains, OM1 camera, San Francisco Peaks, Sunsets, Uncategorized

  #cinder cones, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, #San Francisco Volcanic Field, #sunsets

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  November 25, 2022

  #bird photography, #FlagstaffArizona, #hummingbirds, #northern Arizona, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photography, #raptors, #wildlife photography, #wings, Arizona, bird photography, California, herons, holiday gifts, Mirrorless cameras, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

  #Arizona, #birds, #getolympus, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, #publicspaces, Flagstaff

• 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)!

  jwilce

  November 23, 2022

  #colors, #digital cameras, Arizona, Mirrorless cameras, outdoor photography

  #Arizona, #getolympus, #nature, #olympusphotography, #photography

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  October 18, 2022

  #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, Arizona, OM1 camera, outdoor photography, rural America, San Francisco Peaks

  #Arizona, #aspens, #clouds, #getolympus, #landscapephotography, #nature, #olympusphotography, #photography

• 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, […]

  jwilce

  February 17, 2022

  #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #moon, #Moonsets, #nightsky, #northern Arizona, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, Arizona, Moonsets, outdoor photography

  #Arizona, #Flagstaff, #Lunar photography, #moon, #nature, #Night photography, #northern Arizona, #photography, #Winter photography

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  November 26, 2021

  #colors, #digital cameras, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, Arizona, California, outdoor photography

  #cameras, #fineartphotography, #getolympus, #happyaccidentsinphotography, #nature, #parallelism, #photography, #poetryofnature, Olympus photography

• Capturing Lightning With “LiveComposite” by Olympus

  jwilce

  September 10, 2021

  #FlagstaffArizona, #nightsky, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #technological improvement, #technology, Arizona, outdoor photography

• 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.

  jwilce

  February 11, 2021

  #photography, Arizona, Mammals, outdoor photography, Rodents, wildlife photography

  Snow, winter

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  September 30, 2020

  #colors, #digital cameras, #moon, #nightsky, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, Arizona, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, Moonrises, Moonsets, Mountains, outdoor photography, rural America, San Francisco Peaks

  Cosmos

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  September 19, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, #wings, agonistic behavior, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• 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 […]

  jwilce

  September 18, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, agonistic behavior, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, herons, outdoor photography, wildlife photography