Friday Fotos: Mixed Emotions

Friday, December 6, 2019

This week's Friday Fotos theme on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page is "Mixed Emotions".

My photo of Snowy Egrets gathered and preening their feathers was one of the featured photos along with many other fine photos.

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Friday Fotos: 8-22-2019

This week's AZ Highways Friday Fotos theme on Facebook is "Macro".

My macro photo of a Poppy was included in this week's Friday Fotos.

Image was taken at Peridot Mesa, Arizona.

Prints available

Friday Fotos: Shadows

This week's Friday Fotos theme on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page is "Shadows." 

Tlaquepaque - Sedona, Arizona

Friday Fotos: Natural Architecture

Natural Architecture was this week's Arizona Highways Magazine's theme on their Facebook page.  My photo of Papago Park was included with many other photos that were submitted.

Papago Park

Second Place-Arizona Highways Magazine's Photo Contest 2018-2019

Friday, May 17, 2019 was the day that I was informed by a photographer friend that I had won 2nd Place in the yearly photo contest for Arizona Highways Magazine!  

Another photographer friend, Peggy Coleman, who runs the Facebook page "Birding--Arizona and the Southwest" posted comments about the contest and my 2nd place win. 

"Oh, my EGRET!!  Tam Ryan has garnered 2nd place in the Anual Arizona Highways Magazine Photo Contest!  As many of you know, AHM is the premiere Magazine for Arizona as well as recognized and honored nationally.  Since it primarily celebrates the beauty (landscapes) of AZ to win 2nd Place for Wildlife is the supreme honor! Congratulations Tam Ryan! Here is the link to the winners page!"

https://www.arizonahighways.com/2018-2019-contest-winners?fbclid=IwAR1mCN4-H6YLSSDcvQ6aaf-JYap0SKnJ30mp9zY0QTmj-pSyiWAtjYU9EJE

I responded in comments: 

"Peggy, thank you for announcing this on your page!  I want to thank ALL of my local and non-local friends on this page and elsewhere who have been a great influence in my progress as a bird photographer.  There was a time when I didn't know the difference between a Great Egret and a Snowy Egret. As it happens, my photo of Great Egrets in an early morning mist was chosen.  Thank you, friends and Arizona Highways Magazine! 

Great Egrets in the Mist 

Friday Fotos: Bridges

Arizona Highways Magazine's Friday Fotos "Bridges": May 10, 2019

One of my images of the Light Rail Bridge at Tempe Town Lake was one of the many bridge images featured today in "Friday Fotos" on Facebook.

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird 

Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

Tucson, Arizona 

Prints Available

AZ Highways Friday Fotos theme is "green"

Friday Fotos theme: "Green"

Broad-billed Hummingbird 

Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

Tucson, Arizona

London Bridge Fog - Lake Havasu City, Arizona

One December morning in Lake Havasu City, I woke up to fog surrounding my house.  I knew that meant that The London Bridge would look like a London 

 fog.  So, I rushed over to the bridge with my film camera, a Nikon 8008s, and took a series of images. This one was my favorite.

London Bridge Fog 

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Prints Available

Friday Fotos - April 19, 2019

Today's Friday Fotos theme on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page is "The Colorado River".

My photo of a fog surrounding London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona was included in today's Friday Fotos along with many other wonderful images representing the Colorado River.

Friday Fotos theme: "the Phoenix area."

Today's Friday Fotos theme on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page is "the Phoenix area".  My photo of the lights of Phoenix from South Mountain Park was included in the many photos submitted for this weekly submission.

I zoomed the lens as I took the photo to get this abstract effect of the lights.

Pete Moulton - In Memory

I found this picture of Pete Moulton and Benjamin Feller walking along one of the trails at Gilbert Riparian Preserve. You will be greatly missed, Pete Moulton. I recently ran into Pete when I was at Desert Botanical Garden on March 22, 2019. I introduced him to my 3 friends, two of whom had never met him. I told them how knowledgeable he was about birds and all types of bugs and in general so much of nature. His stories about them were a pleasure to listen to and learn about. He helped me so many a time with IDing birds, butterflies or dragonflies. Pete said that day that he hadn't been feeling all that well. I had no idea that he had been that sick. He never complained. Pete was a wonderful friend for the many years that I knew him and running into him at Gilbert Riparian or Papago Park. He will be so very missed by me and so many of us who have had the pleasure of knowing him. He was a wonderful photographer. Pete is now flying high with all of the birds and nature that he so dearly loved.:( 

Pete Moulton in the foreground

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Friday Fotos - Arizona Highways on Facebook

Today's Friday Fotos theme is "running water".

My photo of Cathedral Rock at Red Rock State Park was included in today's Friday Fotos on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page along with many other beautiful views from Arizona.

Snowy Egret Greeting Card

A new Greeting Card is ready for purchase in my Zazzle Store:

Snowy Egret Greeting Card
by TamRyanPhoto

Friday Fotos - Arizona Highways Magazine

This week's Friday Fotos theme on the Arizona Highways Magazine's Facebook page is "springtime in Arizona".

Mexican Poppy 

Peridot Mesa - San Carlos Reservation, Arizona

March 14, 2019

My photo of a Mexican Poppy was included in this week's Friday Fotos.  This image was taken with a 90 mm macro lens that was loaned to me that day by a photographer friend.  

Image can be purchased HERE

Elvis Chapel and Superstition Mountain Greeting Card

This card is available for purchase HERE

Elvis Chapel and Superstition Mountain Holiday Card
by TamRyanPhoto

Click on image to see larger 

Finalist Images in Arizona Highways Magazine's 2018/2019 Photo Contest

Three of my images were included in the Wildlife Finalists in the 2018/2019 Arizona Highways Magazine's photo contest.

See below for the full image of the Great Egrets in the mist:

View my portfolio website at this link HERE

Friday Fotos: 2/22/19 Arizona Highways Magazine

Friday Fotos theme on Feb. 22, 2019 was "red"

on the Facebook page for Arizona Highways Magazine.

One of my photos of a Vermilion Flycatcher was one of the images that were included with other "red" themed images.

Vermilion Flycatcher

Tam Ryan Photo Exhibit - ASU UCENT Building, Phoenix, Arizona

Tam Ryan Photography Exhibit 

UCENT Building ASU Downtown Campus

January-May 2019

A big thank you to Alex Bojorquez, the Dean and Vice-Dean for approving my work to be shown in the main lobby of ASU Downtown Campus in the UCENT Building.