Category Archives: Photography

Fiserv Forum Skywalk

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken with my iPhone while sitting on Juneau, facing west, at the 6th Street stoplight. I really enjoy seeing this building from different perspectives, at different times of day, and in different seasons. Always something new.

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Weeds on a Milwaukee sidewalk

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Gray morning in Milwaukee, but these weeds in the 1900 block of West Vliet caught my eye as I was driving past, so I had to stop and get out in the drizzling rain to take a picture. Maybe I … Continue reading →

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A tour of public sculpture along Milwaukee’s Riverwalk and Wisconsin Avenue

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

A photo of my colleague, Margaret Dwyer, and me with “The Bronze Fonz,” taken during last Saturday’s walking tour of public sculptures along the Milwaukee Riverwalk and Wisconsin Avenue. We led a group of MSOE students on the two-hour walk … Continue reading →

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TIX3

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

😂 Looked up from my desk this morning and noticed the “EXIT” sign outside my door.

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Fiserv Forum roofline, south side, late afternoon

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

So many photos of this building are just waiting to be taken. There’s one image I’d like to capture along the north side looking west, but I don’t think my equipment is good enough to get it 😦

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Arrangement in Black and White No. 1

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Photo taken in my parking garage this morning. Lots of cutesy titles suggested themselves, among them: “Rule of Thirds” – because there are three white pillar bases and three white lights. Plus the “Rule of Thirds” concept. “Figures 3 and … Continue reading →

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Bicycle with Shadow Sharrow

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Today I learned the official name for a certain ubiquitous graphic painted on the bike lanes of city streets: “sharrow.” A “sharrow”— in case you also didn’t know what to call this thing you’ve surely seen many times—is the “signage” … Continue reading →

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Abstract optical games

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

I took this photo two weeks ago because the reflected light was so striking. And then I promptly forgot all about it until the other night when I was at Boswell Books to see Austin Kleon. As the event began, … Continue reading →

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Snowy birch at night

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this picture after yesterday’s snow finally ended, shortly before turning in. Any photos I take at night with my phone are usually greenish and hard to make out. This one looked really striking though, and practically black and white … Continue reading →

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Atrium staircase, late afternoon

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

I am in the middle of grading midterms today. That involves lots of sitting, punctuated by the need to get up and stretch my legs more often than I usually think to remember. There is lots of late afternoon sunshine … Continue reading →

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