Tag: #Arizona

• 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–…

  jwilce

  October 16, 2022

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, OM1 camera

  #Arizona, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff, ravens

• Buy a digital copy of this rock squirrel photo!

  Rock squirrels are small rodents in the squirrel family, with short ears, and fur that blends with their preferred places to hang out—on large rocks. Yesterday (5 September) I posted this video to YouTube. The squirrels in the video might well be  siblings. Here in Flagstaff Arizona where I filmed them, it seems that all…

  jwilce

  September 6, 2022

  #northern Arizona, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, Mammals, Rodents

  #Arizona, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff

• Starbursts Redux, Facebook And Fineartamerica News

  A while back, I shared with y’all my experiments with starburst patterns. Hard work has paid off. I’ve gotten a lot better at it. Check out this one— and visit my new Facebook page, wilcephotos, and fineartamerica to purchase prints and other items incorporating 10 of my very best photos.

  jwilce

  June 1, 2022

  #photography

  #Arizona, #lisalangell, #nature, #olympusphotography, #photography, #specialeffects, #starbursts, Flagstaff

• Playing, Part II

  Yesterday (6th May), inspired by Jeff Goulden and Mike Smith on Fstoppers, I shot my first panorama on a camera (having tried without much luck shooting panoramas on my phone). It was hurried, playful, non-serious. Fun! Both Jeff and Mike suggested shooting panoramas handheld would work, and that’s what I tried. As Mike said, just…

  jwilce

  May 7, 2022

  #colors, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #nightsky, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, Sunrises, Sunsets

  #Arizona, #jeffgoulden, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff

• Playing, Part 1

  Taking a shot with real vivid color and playing with it in Photoshop… OM-D E-M1 Mark II #getolympus, #lisatomphotography, #olympusphotography

  jwilce

  May 7, 2022

  #FlagstaffArizona, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography

  #Arizona, #nature, #northern Arizona, #photography, #publicspaces

• Moonset in the Mountains 17March2022

  Until recently, a huge frustration in shooting the bright moon and its dimmer context was this— I could 1) brighten the whole image in order to make the context visible, washing out the features of the moon, 2) dim the moon and make the context even less visible, or 3) use a brush to change…

  jwilce

  March 17, 2022

  #digital cameras, #Moonsets, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography

  #Arizona, #getolympus, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, #post-production, #wilcephotos.com, DxO Raw editing software, Flagstaff

• Night Photography

  Star Trails Over San Francisco Peaks Another photo from my pre-dawn photo-walk yesterday (2/17/22) morning…another shot at night photography (pun intended). What I am attempting is to minimize noise while maximizing light on my subject— the peaks and the stars above them. This involves the following settings— ISO 1000, f/2.8 at .50s, shot on my…

  jwilce

  February 18, 2022

  #photography

  #Arizona, #nature, #northern Arizona, #photography, Flagstaff

• 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

• A Tale of Two Butterflies: One Native, One Exotic (Queen and Doris Longwing)

  If you live in Arizona—or in many spots in the Old or the New World!— you can easily see Queen butterflies and Doris Longwing butterflies. But, if you are in Arizona (or any place other than Central America or the Amazon), you are only likely to see the latter, however, in a special place called…

  jwilce

  December 18, 2021

  #photography

  #Arizona, #butterflyphotography, #olympusphotography, #wilcephotos.com

• More Parallelism in Nature: Geology

  In early December I posted a series of photos illustrating “parallelism in nature”. The term refers to pattern or “patternment.” Parallelism is the key to poetry as a tradition around the world. Rhyme is parallelism. Meter or rhythm is parallelism. Patterns involving repetition exemplify parallelism. And it is seen in nature as well as poetry.…

  jwilce

  December 17, 2021

  #photography

  #Arizona, #nature, #photography

• Afterglow of moonset on morning of November 17

  .I found that, as often with sunsets, it is not the hot white globe, even in setting, that is most compelling to me as a photographic subject, but the aftermath especially on a cloudy morning. The photo below can best be viewed, and is available for sale, on SmugMug

  jwilce

  November 17, 2021

  #digital cameras, #moon, #Moonsets, #photography

  #Arizona, #fineartphotography, #getolympus, #landscapephotography, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, #weatherphotogaphy, #wilcephotos.com

• Noise, one of the enemies of clarity in photos—and, a solution!

  Once upon a time, in the days of film cameras, photographers struggled against “grainy” shots. “Noise” is the equivalent in the era of digital photography. If you blow up one of your photos you might be surprised to see irregular blotches throughout. Blurriness is a different problem. Blurriness is caused by camera jiggle or movement…

  jwilce

  October 21, 2021

  #photography

  #Arizona, #nature, #northern Arizona, #photography, post-processing software, Topaz Labs softare

• Waterfowl on Frances Short Pond (Flagstaff)

  It’s been a frightfully warm winter, but not so warm as to completely melt the ice on our fair city’s beloved municipal pond near a couple of our public schools. Frances Short was an “educator and city councilperson” in Flagstaff. (For more information, click here.) The pond and its immediate environs are home to waterfowl…

  jwilce

  December 28, 2017

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #wildlife photography, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

  #Arizona, #birds, #publicspaces, coots, ducks, Flagstaff, mallards, municipal parks, waterfowl

• Dragonflies mating mid-air

  One of my favorite places in Flagstaff is Frances Short Pond. It is a hotspot for members of the Order Odonata— dragonflies and damselflies like the one below, which is, I believe, a “bluet.” But now the show I promised—a shaky video of two orange dragonflies and their mid-air mating dance. The still photos on…

  jwilce

  September 30, 2016

  #dragonflies, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #mating rituals, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, #wings, animal behavior, Arizona, insect behavior, insect photography

  #Arizona, #insects, #nature, #parks, #photoblog, #photography, #wings, Flagstaff

• 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…

  jwilce

  September 30, 2016

  #butterflies, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #photography, #photonarratives, insect photography

  #Arizona, #insects, #photoblog, #photography, butterflies, Flagstaff