Published: Friday Fotos - Nov. 20, 2015

On November 20, 2015, this photo of Lockett Meadow in Flagstaff was included in Arizona Highways Magazine's blog, Friday Fotos: Great Escapes.

Published: Photo Contest Winner-Arizona Desert Views Calendar

One of my photos of Hooded Orioles is now published in the Arizona Wildlife Views 2016 calendar from over 2,000 entries submitted for this contest.  All first place winners will receive a $250 prize and two free copies of the calendar, as well.

It's a great honor to have been chosen as a first place winner along with twelve other photographer's images.  Copies are on sale now at any Game and Fish office in Arizona for only $3.00.  I purchased ten copies today and I plan on giving them as gifts.

The winners of the contest will be published in Arizona Highways Magazine in January 2016.  It is wonderful to be included with some of the other photographers, some of whom I have met out in the field taking pictures.  Thanks for being a great inspiration to me!

Photo Contest Winners Announced

An announcement was made today on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page with the winners of the wildlife photo contest, co-sponsored by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Arizona Highways. One of my photos of Hooded Orioles will be published in their calendar in the November-December issue of Arizona Wildlife Views magazine. The winning images will be published in Arizona Highways online sometime in 2016.

Link to winners: https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/winners-announced-game-and-fish-wildlife-photo-contest

Over 2,000 images were submitted for this photo contest. Several of my photographer friends were winners in this calendar contest all of whom have been a great inspiration to me with my photography.

Hooded Orioles at Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, Arizona.

Published in Friday Fotos: Shadows

October 9, 2015
Published today in Arizona Highways Magazine's blog Friday Fotos: Shadows

This image for sale: HERE

Published: Arizona Highways Magazine's blog

Today, my photo of Granite Dells at Watson Lake in Prescott, Arizona was published in the Arizona Highways Magazine's blog, Friday Fotos on Oct. 2, 2015. Today's theme was Black and White.  Prints of this image are for sale on my website HERE

Published in Friday Fotos: "Over the River and..."

This week's Friday Fotos theme in the Arizona Highways blog was "Over the River and..." This one is from the West Fork area of Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona.

Published in Friday Fotos: Looking Sharp

On August 28, 2015, this photo was published in Arizona Highways Magazine's blog, Friday Fotos: Looking Sharp. This image was taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum during the fall color season in Superior, Arizona.

This image for purchase HERE

Published: Friday Fotos: Salt River Wild Horses

These beautiful and majestic Salt River Wild Horses need your help to stay in their present home along the Salt River area in the Tonto National Forest. Please sign the petition link to keep these wild horses protected from being rounded up. Sign the petition HERE.

This photo was included in the Arizona Highways Magazine's e-book to help the Salt River Wild Horses Management Group.

  

See the link to this image HERE

New Beginnings

Two juvenile Pied-billed Grebes look after each other on one of the ponds at Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona. They are almost on their own now and their coloring will change by the time they are adults.  But, even at this size, they still try to hitch a ride on their mother's back.

Prints available HERE

Published: Bird Image of the Day

Wow! What a great honor to be the Featured BIRD IMAGE OF THE DAY on Nature Photography | Wildlife Photography on Facebook. Thank you so much Nathaniel Smalley! Membership count in that Facebook group is over 29,000! 

May 30, 2015

BIRD IMAGE OF THE DAY by Tam Ryan

Published May 29, 2015 - Friday Fotos

This week in the Arizona Highways Magazine blog, my photo of Lockett Meadow was published in this week's Friday Fotos.

This was the height of the fall season up in Flagstaff.  I accompanied my photographer friend, Vince, who offered to do the driving with his four-wheel drive vehicle.  It was quite an experience traveling the backroads to get up there and an experience that I will never forget.

Lockett Meadow

October 9, 2014

Published May 22, 2015: Friday Fotos

Every week for Friday Fotos on the Arizona Highways Magazine's blog, I try to participate with the theme of the week.   Friday, May 22, 2015 was a Water theme: "Good to the Last Drop."

 Snowy Egret

Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch

Gilbert, Arizona

This image link on Arizona Highways is HERE

Bird Photography

“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway.”  ― Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Memoir

Most of these birds were from Gilbert Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona.  The Barn Owl was from the Raptor Free Flight Demonstration at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.  The set of three images of Sandhill Cranes were from Whitewater Draw south of Tucson, Arizona.

Black Necked Stilts

Green Heron

Ring-necked Ducks

Ring-necked Duck

American Avocet

Kingfisher

Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron

Northern Shoveler

Verdin

Male Ruddy Duck

Pied-billed Grebe

Female Hooded Merganser

Great Egret

Anna's Hummingbird

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

Adult and Juvenile Harris Hawk

Barn Owl

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Published in Friday Fotos: Arizona Highways Magazine's Blog

Published image - March 6, 2015 Friday Fotos: Arizona Highways Magazine's Blog

Theme:  Flower Power

This image was taken on March 31, 2014  along State Rt. 87

To see other images that were published in 2015 for Friday Fotos, please visit my link on Facebook at this link:
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March 1, 2015 Photo of the Week: Old MASTERS - PHOTOGRAPHERS and DIGITAL ARTS

I am so thrilled and honored! This image below and three other images of mine are in Featured Artist of the Week on Fine Art America in the group called "Old MASTERS - PHOTOGRAPHERS and DIGITAL ARTS". This group is for artists/photographers over the age of sixty. The page administrator, Lenore Senior, wrote this in comments: "CONGRATULATIONS, Tam!~You are the Featured Artist of the Week in the group, Old MASTERS--Photographers and Digital Arts! Your work is consistently excellent and appealing!! v/f and FB promotion!"

I traveled with four other photographer friends to visit this amazing wildlife area for water birds. It was a first time visit for all of us. We were in awe of the Sandhill Cranes and their graceful beauty as they flew by in pairs and groups. This is a color photo. But, due to the complete overcast of that day, this appears as monochrome, almost black and white. I love the mood it gives to the image. I had several images similar to this to choose from. But, this one, with the spacing of each bird and the multiple water reflections from their wings just spoke to me.

Some of the comments on my Facebook post about this image were very encouraging! It is so nice to know that some of my images affect others in a positive way, just as they do for me.

I have had three weeks to work with this new Tamron 150-600 mm lens before arriving at Whitewater Draw. I have been impressed with the capabilities of this lens, its clarity and responsiveness. The features that appealed to me were many. I researched blogs and YouTube and heard many good reports of its capabilities and then made the decision to buy the lens for my birding adventures.

The Mosaic

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~ Stanley Horowitz

Happiness

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shapes in the Snow

One of my favorite singers, Jodee James, is, also, a creative and imaginative writer.  She writes on her personal Facebook page about her experiences with nature around her home in the woods with the depth and soul of a Story Teller.  From time to time, I will share some of her posts with you along with one of my photos in this blog.

“Too windy to walk in the woods with the trees so brittle, but I got to walk along the stream where the ice hung like glass earrings and bells, or like mismatched puzzle pieces half floating on the water. The woods are so noisy when it's cold and the sky this blue - the branches creaking and slowly moving, wrapping around the fringe of evergreen - I think I can hear the whole forest sounding up over the hill. The air seems that thin. It's definitely a two hat day.”

Jodee James (January 22, 2014)

Jodee James Music website HERE

Snow in the Desert

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls,

 the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

West Fork Winter

"When snow falls, nature listens"   ~  Antoinette van Kleeff

First Fall of Snow

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"   - J. B. Priestley