Secluded Spring Creek

Spring Creek
Sedona, Arizona

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Reflection Pond

This spot is one of my favorite reflection ponds within West Fork in Oak Creek Canyon.  Sedona, Arizona has so many beautiful scenic spots and this one is especially healing and soothing.  

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A Flowering Bud - poem by Tam Ryan

During many of my visits to the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, there have been many beautiful spring flowers and cactus flowers in bloom.  This is one of many favorite images that I have photographed.

A flowering bud

Creeping up from

Hollow roots

To form perfectly

© 1963 Tam Ryan

Flowering Bud

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Fragrant Streams

Fragrant streams - flowers

Smells...and all of 

Nature's bells...

Alas, in a dream

© 1963 Tam Ryan

West Fork in Oak Creek Canyon

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Sunset Swirls

"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds"

Henry David Thoreau

Sunset Swirls

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Photographic Poetry

Trees are beautiful

Shape and all

Leaves that fall

© 1963 Tam Ryan

Off and on, since I was a youngster and through my adulthood, I have written a few poems over the years. The influence, I'm sure, came from my mother, who was a poet.  I will share some of my other poems in the future from time to time.  

Reaching Out

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The Desert

"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama."

Ang Lee

Desert Afternoon
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Birds of a Feather

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)

The Blue Lion and Other Essays

These are some of my favorite water bird images from the past few years. Many of them were taken at Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona and one at Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona.

Featured Cover Photo - Arizona Highways Magazine on Facebook, January 2014

Egrets at Gilbert Water Ranch

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Black-necked Stilt

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A resident Goose at Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona

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Canada Goose

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Canada Goose

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Pied-billed Grebes

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Snowy Egret

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West Fork in Oak Creek Canyon

Oak Creek Dreams

A dream of West Fork in Oak Creek

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At the end of this month, I will be travelling to Sedona, Arizona with some photographer friends to take pictures and meet a new contact who lives in Oak Creek.  A picnic and a photo adventure awaits us in one of the most beautiful landscapes in Arizona.

It's a Dry Heat

Skull Shadow

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When I was visiting friends of my parents in Oracle, Arizona back in June 1998, I found this skull on the back of their home.  It was luck that I had decided to walk into their back yard to view some of the other art that they had on display.  When I turned around, I saw this perfect shadow being cast from the skull.

Papago Park

January 3, 2014

Papago Park on a cool January afternoon, is the place to be for bird watching, photographing and fishing. It is June 19 now and I am longing for those cooler temperatures.  We have a long, hot summer ahead of us here in the Valley of the Sun.  Plans are in the works for a trip up north to Sedona where beautiful scenery, the company of photographer friends and a new friend to be will be enjoyed.

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Summer Days

Red Mountain and The Salt River

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June

The sun is rich

and gladly pays

In golden hours

Silver days

And long green weeks

That never end

School's out

The time is ours to spend

There's Little League

Hopscotch, the creek,

And after supper

Hide and seek

The live-long light

Is like a dream

*Poem from the book "A Child's Calendar" written by John Updike*

The Salt River

Arizona Highways Magazine's Photo of the Day - April 30, 2014
Photo of the Day/Black-and-White Wednesday

The Salt River
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The Salt River

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The Salt River

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The Dawn of a New Age

Superstition Mountain Sunrise

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"And even the sun

in dawn chorus sings,

a celestial melody to the earth

below."

- Tjaden

My Journey as a Photographer

Great Egrets
Cover photo - Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook Page
January 2014

This is a Father's Day tribute to both of my fathers (and my mother, of course) who have been very influential in helping me develop my interest in photography. It has been the passion of my life to learn and pursue the next image that inspires me.

Looking back at the way I became interested in photography has made me realize how lucky I have been to have had two father's who were influential in my upbringing. At age ten, I received my first point and shoot film camera in 1960 from my father, Dave Ryan. I took some pictures with it while visiting Rome, Italy for a 6 month stay with my step-father, John Huggler, a composer and jazz musician, who had received his first Guggenheim Grant. The next camera was another point and shoot until I graduated in 1968 from Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts.

My father, Dave, was the first to recognize the value of photography, having taken darkroom instruction from the prominent photo-journalist of that time, W. Eugene Smith in New York City. After my father, Dave, moved to Japan, he sent me my first good 35 mm camera, the Asahi Pentax. It didn't have a light meter, so I purchased one and started on my journey by learning the basics of setting f. stops and shutter speed according to the light meter's recommendations. From those beginnings, I then had several cameras. I had a Chinon, a Canon A-1 and then the Nikon 8008s film cameras and a Bronica GS-1 medium format camera. In 2006, I got my first digital camera. Just last year, I traded John's old Nikon camera system for a Nikon D300.

My father, John, became interested in photography, as well. He had the opportunity to meet Ansel Adams during one of our summer vacations driving through California. My mother, Mardean and my father, John, were both very supportive of me pursuing photography.

When I moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona in 1977, I became more involved with photography by contributing to the local newspaper and was published in local magazine publications. Then, I took a darkroom developing and printing class at the community college. The class led to a job working for the local newspaper.

In 1997, I moved to Mesa, Arizona where I have become very active with photography Meetup groups. I am out as often as possible taking pictures of the subjects that interest me most. I enjoy landscapes, desert flora, birds, abstracts in nature and abstracts in architecture. Please visit my website to see the variety of images that are for sale. The links are: 

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Friday Fotos

An opportunity to participate in sharing my photos on the Facebook page for Arizona Highways Magazine's blog started when I submitted my first image on October 14, 2011. Since then, I have had over 60 images shared on their Word Press blog.

View the list and links to each image published in Friday Fotos on my Facebook page here:

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Arizona Treasures

Cover Photo on Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook Page

In January 2014, my image of Great Egrets was used as the Arizona Highways Magazine's Cover photo on their Facebook page for about two weeks. I was thrilled and honored to have had my photo chosen as a Cover photo along with so many other talented photographers who's work has graced their cover. As of today's date, June 14, 2014, there are 1327 Likes and 139 Shares of my Egrets photo.

Arizona Highways Magazine's Cover on Facebook

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