Category Archives: Photography

Central Library, Milwaukee Public Library

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

If you Google Milwaukee’s Central Library, you’ll see images of a gorgeous Neo-Renaissance-style (according to Wikipedia) building. And it’s true: The Central Library is a work of art. It was originally home to the Public Museum, a history of which … Continue reading →

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Urban trees with a purple glow

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Just another photo from my day. Actually, this one is from my evening. Tonight was the MSOE Scholarship and Donor Dinner, an event where donors who fund scholarships get to sit down and share a meal with the students who … Continue reading →

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Maintenance Maintenant

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a photo from my day. I fooled around with the colors a bit to brighten the reds and yellows and darken the shadows, and I liked the result enough to share. Hope you like it, too😀

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Coat rack with moving light reflections

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

My office in the Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering gets lots of direct and indirect sunlight in the morning. Today as I was getting ready to leave for my 10:00 class, I noticed that not only had the … Continue reading →

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Amazed by my phone (as exemplified by some paisley closeups)

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I tend to hang onto my phones until I absolutely have to give them up. Example: when my Nokia flip phone, which I ludicrously loved even more once the cover degraded to the point where I could flip it open … Continue reading →

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Writing exercise – “Common Comrades” (a horror poem)

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

This poem was a response to a writing-exercise prompt for my writing group. My original plan was to submit to literary journals with hopes of publishing. I haven’t done that sort of thing in many, many years and would like … Continue reading →

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Wavy Van

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

The strong horizontal lines of the building just south of my office got bent big time along the curves of this van on the street below my window. I wasn’t going to post this photo, as it’s really nothing special, … Continue reading →

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Office Building Lobby

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I had a meeting with a colleague this morning in a nearby office building’s large food court, which serves only coffee and prepackaged breakfast food in the mornings and is thus quite deserted during the 9:00 AM hour. While standing … Continue reading →

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Sunlit

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a photo from my day, taken of the atrium staircase in the Grohmann Museum shortly before my 1:00 class this afternoon. I liked the way sunlight brightened up the railings as it angled in through the glass. That’s all😀

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Venus and Crescent Moon over Milwaukee

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I wish I also could have gotten Red Arrow Park’s ice skating rink at the bottom of this photo, but it was windy and cold, and I was walking to my parking garage after work. Plus this was the first … Continue reading →

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