Category Archives: Photography

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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Patchy fog, sunny afternoon

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Strange weather in Milwaukee today. We began with drizzle in the early morning, like 5:00 AM, which then turned into a thick fog for the drive downtown. I was working in my office all day, and by mid-day everything outside … Continue reading →

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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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