Tag: #nature

• What Wikipedia calls the “default desert bird”

  If you have never heard of Curve-Billed Thrashers, you probably don’t live in or near a desert. But if you google “default desert bird” you’ll see a lot of text etc. devoted to Thrashers.  Unfortunately, the phrase “default desert bird,” with or without proper attribution is a misquote. At least Wikipedia rightly cites Dunne as the…

  jwilce

  December 6, 2015

  #bird photography, #outdoor photography, #photography, #wildlife photography, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos

  #Arizona, #birds, #desertbirds, #DesertBotanicalGarden, #nature, #parks, #Phoenix, #photography

• 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…

  jwilce

  August 9, 2015

  #California, #photography, #photonarratives

  #birds, #Crescent Bay, #Hummingbirds, #insects, #Laguna Beach, #nature, #Pacific Ocean, #photography, #photonarratives, #publicspaces, #Shorebirds, #Southern California

• 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…

  jwilce

  July 30, 2015

  #accipiters, #digital cameras, #hawks, #photography, #photonarratives

  #Arizona, #bees, #birds, #bumblebees, #hawks, #insects, #nature, #photography, #photonarratives, #raptors, #technological improvement, #technology

• Another great day for insect photography in Flagstaff

  Until just two or three weeks ago it’s pretty safe to say I knew nothing about butterflies and moths (except that they like milkweed), let alone other insects.  (Well, of course I knew a bit about honeybees, bumblebees, wasps, flies, mosquitos…) But did I know anything about butterflies? Only monarchs. Dragonflies? Re. the order “Odonata”…

  jwilce

  July 19, 2015

  Uncategorized

  #insects, #nature, #photography