Tam Ryan

My photo
Nature and Wildlife Photographer Published in Arizona Highways Magazine, Arizona Desert Views Magazine's Calendar and Nature Conservancy among other publications. Tam Ryan has lived in the Southwestern United States for over forty years. Her interests center on the region's unique attributes, especially its vast landscapes and bird wildlife. Tam Ryan's other interests include abstracts in nature, architecture, desert flora, and cacti.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Published: Arizona Desert Views Calendar 2018


For the past three years, I have had a photo published in the Arizona Desert Views calendar on one of the months. This year the image of coyotes running is featured on the August page. 

I took this picture at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The calendar can be purchased from any Game and Fish office for $3.


Published - Arizona Desert Views Calendar 2018


For the past three years, I have had a photo published in the Arizona Desert Views calendar on one of the months. This year the image of coyotes running is featured on the August page. 


Here is the front cover, taken by Pamela Parker and my coyote image that I took at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. 


The calendar can be purchased from any Game and Fish office for $3.





Friday, November 3, 2017

Published-Friday Fotos: "Scary"-Arizona Highways Magazine


Today's Friday Fotos on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page:

BioMythic Mask created by Gwynn Popovac
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Oct. 1, 2010

Monday, October 16, 2017

Published: Photo of the Day: Arizona Highways Magazine

Fall Color in West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, Arizona

Check out Oct. 16 on Arizona Highways website:  HERE

Friday, September 29, 2017

Published: Friday Fotos - Arizona Highways Magazine's blog

Today, my photo of a Desert Spiny Lizard was published in the weekly Friday Fotos blog for Arizona Highways Magazine.

Friday Fotos theme: Cold Blooded

Friday, September 8, 2017

Friday, September 1, 2017

Published: Friday Fotos-Arizona Highways Magazine's blog



Friday Fotos theme: Relaxing and Easing into the Weekend

Published in Friday Fotos-Arizona Highways Magazine's blog


Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Published on August 20, 2017 on Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page.

This photo was published on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page showing my photo of a Round-tailed Ground Squirrel that I submitted to their photo contest.
Raise your hand if you love lazy Sundays! Tam Ryan made this photograph of a ground squirrel and entered it in our photo contest. Enter your images via https://www.arizonahighways.com/photography/photo-contest.


Friday, July 28, 2017

Friday, July 21, 2017

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Published: Friday Fotos: Arizona Highways Magazine

July 14, 2017

This week's Friday Fotos blog images for Arizona Highways Magazine is the San Francisco Peaks.
"Peaks Peeks"


Photo by Tam Ryan
Hart Prairie Road


Saturday, May 27, 2017

Published: Friday Fotos: Arizona Highways Magazine's blog - May 26, 2017

This week's Friday Fotos theme in  Arizona Highways Magazine's blog was "Museums".
 My close up photo from one of the firetrucks at The Hall of Flame Museum was included this week.

Friday, May 19, 2017

Published: Arizona Highways Magazine's Friday Fotos Blog

May 19, 2017

Today's Friday Fotos theme was Catalina State Park in Tucson.  Here is the image that Arizona Highways Magazine included in their weekly Friday Fotos:

Friday, April 28, 2017

Published - Friday Fotos: Arizona Highways blog

This week's Arizona Highways Friday Fotos "Old and New" theme.

This is a Harris' Antelope Squirrel eating newly bloomed flowers from a Hops Bush at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona on April 11, 2017. This squirrel was crawling from branch to branch eating as many flowers as it could while I was watching it for thirty minutes.

Monday, April 3, 2017

High Key Haiku








adjective: (of a photograph) having chiefly light tones, usually with little 
tonal contrast (distinguished from low-key ).
(source: dictionary.com)

High Key photos and Haiku poetry to accompany each image.




Saturday, February 4, 2017

Published: Friday Fotos in Arizona Highways Magazine's blog

On Friday, February 3, 2017, my photo of a young Native American boy doing a Hoop Dance at The Heard Museum in Phoenix was published in Friday Fotos of Arizona Highways Magazine's blog. This week's theme was, 'sports'. The date of this cultural event was on Feb. 5, 2011.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Queen Butterfly Sold to DesignerPrints.com

Today, my photo of a Queen Butterfly was sold to a collector from Olivette, Missouri.  Last month, I sold the same image through the same buyer with DesignerPrints.com.

See the DesignerPrints sale announcement page HERE

Prints for sale HERE




Monday, January 16, 2017

Feather and "Hope"

On January 12, 2016, a feather floated by on a pond at the Gilbert Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona.  The poem that I have posted below is by one of my mother's favorite poets, Emily Dickinson. Link to the poem's source is HERE




“Hope” is the thing with feathers 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.






Saturday, January 14, 2017

Publshed: Arizona Highways Magazine's Friday Fotos Blog

On January 13, 2017, my photo of Black-necked Stilts in flight was included in the weekly Friday Fotos in Arizona Highways Magazine's online blog.

Print options for sale at this link: HERE



Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Published: Friday Fotos - Arizona Highways Magazine



December 30, 2016 - Published in Friday Fotos blog in Arizona Highways Magazine's

Theme: New

Snowy Egrets in early morning light at Gilbert Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona.

PUBLISHED in Arizona Game and Fish Calendar 2024

My photo of two juvenile Black-necked Stilts was pubished in the 2024 Arizona Game and Fish Calendar. The image won an Honorable Mention an...