Category Archives: Milwaukee

Moonrise over Church of the Gesu

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this photo in the early evening on Monday of this week. Church of the Gesu (is on the campus of Marquette University, on Wisconsin Avenue at 12 Street, in downtown Milwaukee. (By the way, Gesu is pronounced JAY ZOO, … Continue reading →

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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Well. I’ve never cried in a museum before, but the Edmund Fitzgerald exhibition at the Grohmann Museum had me in tears yesterday afternoon. I was making my way through the special exhibit’s gallery, looking at photographs and paintings of the … Continue reading →

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Sunset, Milwaukee

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Heading east on State Street, stopped at the traffic light at 12th Street. I love the way the sun reflects off the glass of the Aurora Sinai hospital skywalk and, farther east, slightly left of center, the 1000 North Water … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Textile Worker (and Milwaukee’s Water Tower Dragon)

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I’m teaching two sections of the freshman composition class at MSOE, and among the things we cover in this course are how to “read” art as a “text” and how to talk about any work of art. We spend about … Continue reading →

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Wednesday morning, September 10, in downtown Milwaukee

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Just two photos from my morning drive to work. First, I was on 10th Street just west of the Wisconsin Club, housed in the 1843 mansion built by Alexander Mitchell, founder of the Marine Bank and president of the Chicago, … Continue reading →

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Intersection of Beige and Cream

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Because working on a computer for hours at a time (in a single sitting) is not good for anyone, I try to take short, frequent breaks to get in some stretching and walking as much as possible. Fortunately, my office … Continue reading →

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Fun with Lines

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a few “lines” photos from the past couple of weeks. Although the subject matter is a little mundane, together they constitute a fun collection of “striped” moments in my life during late June and early July. So why not? … Continue reading →

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Day and Night at the Museum (after the rain)

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I took this picture of the Grohmann Museum reflected in a puddle in August of 2016. I loved it, and it was accepted the following year for a fiftieth-anniversay exhibition of alumni art at my undergraduate school, Wright State University. … Continue reading →

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Sun + Fog (Again😀)

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

So this is what happens when you live on a large body of water. When the lake is colder than the air temperature, you get fog. Conversely, in winter when the lake is much warmer than the air temperature you … Continue reading →

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AI and my iPhone

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I discovered a cool AI feature in my iPhone 16’s photo-editing tools yesterday: an image eraser! Remember yesterday’s post about the fog-draped office building on an otherwise sunny afternoon? Here’s the interesting background on how I very quickly edited that … Continue reading →

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