Tag: #birds
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Great things happening at WilcePhotos!
Browse WilcePhotos.com for new photos, galleries, and much more! 1) No more requesting your email address before letting you enter a gallery 2) My Photographic Technique page is growing 3) AND …. (drumroll please) I’ve been blogging 😀 My most recent posts: I) A WEATHER REPORT (retrospective 😉 ) Those who don’t live here in…
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Navigating WilcePhotos just got easier!
I want everyone to know that I am making more changes to WilcePhotos‘ galleries. ANIMALS- Until now I had separate galleries for bison, coyotes, deer, elk, fox, wolves, and a gallery for pronghorns, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats. Some galleries had more than others. Now you can find all of those in a more intuitive…
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Bosque del Apache Photos
I’ve been talking up Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. While I keep working on my photographs from my recent trip there, some are available now! Want to own a photograph, a bit of “the Bosque” to use as you see fit? As wallpaper for your phone, stickers you could create, or just an image…
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News from wilcephotos.com!
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Newly Honored: More Wilcephotos Featured on FAA
I am delighted to announce a new batch of my photos FEATURED by the best groups at Fine Art America! Click here. Most of the photographic artworks you are seeing have actually been featured by THREE groups! Now is the time to buy canvas prints— at the top of the page you’ll see they arfe…
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“Silhouetted Birds In Flight” a great display on FAA! Here is your gateway to a free look at 78 wonderful photos! Many are of birds at sunset, backlit for stunning effect. Enjoy these. Yes, I have a couple up among them. And yes, I am a learner among photographers who posted the other 76— WOW!…
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FAA “Birds” Contest
FIne Art America sponsoring “Birds” art contest I think you will love browsing through all of the submissions to this Fine Art America contest. The “Birds” contest has 1219 images! Most are photographs, but some are other artistic media. Voting (restricted to FAA members) ends in two days. After that, the set of contest images…
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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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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…
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Puddingstone Reservoir February 2022
“Puddingstone” is the common name referring to the artificial lake at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas, southern California. It is an excellent site for birding. I was there, outdoorswithcamera, on February 8 and 9. This post focuses on waterfowl photos, all available as digital downloads. I am still saving up for a…
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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…
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Reflective great(-tailed) hop
Back in April I visited Frances Short Pond here in Flagstaff— a pond fished by man (sometimes woman) and osprey alike. Blackbirds and grackles occupy trees and the marshy island in the middle of the small pond. Here is a great-tailed grackle (I think), caught mid-hop. Click here to see the full-sized photo of the…
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What’s With the V-Formation?
It is an inspiring, though common, thing to see flocks of ducks or geese flying overhead in V-formation. A duck flying alone is also beautiful, as is this mallard… http://www.wilcephotos.com/Northern-Arizona/JMW-Birds-Bees-Etc/i-qndbZbn/0/Th/BIF-Duck%3B%20BubblingPonds%3B%20IMG_9073%20C1PSD1-Th.jpg … but a group of birds synchronizing or coordinating their behavior presents us with a different kind of beauty. This group of Canada Geese flying…
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Hawks: Chasing and Being Chased
Anywhere you see hawks you are likely to see them being chased by smaller birds and not just chasing after them. The following photos (some of which are links to wilcephotos.com) tell two stories. The first story consists of a single photograph of what we might expect to be most common—a bigger, more carnivorous bird…

