Category Archives: Photography

Waiting (for the elevator)

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

A photo I took the other day as I was walking to the printer. It’s a view looking through the glass walls of the elevator shaft into the atrium of the Grohmann Museum in Milwaukee. The strong vertical lines and … Continue reading →

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Grohmann Museum, Friday, December 13, 2024

Posted on December 13, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

At 2:38 PM, to be precise šŸ˜‚ My office at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is on the second floor of the Grohmann Museum. Today was the last day of regular classes before final exams begin next week. My last … Continue reading →

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Awaiting Restoration

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this photo on the drive home from work tonight. I believe this building was once a theater and suffered fire damage at one point, and now a nonprofit is redeveloping it and its neighbors on the block. Actually, I … Continue reading →

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Me šŸŽµ and my shadow šŸŽ¶

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Just an image I liked from my weekšŸ˜€

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Bloom where youā€™re planted!

Posted on November 23, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

I thought of that saying right away about two weeks ago when I saw these cheerful flowers (um, weeds) growing out of the crack at the base of this brick wall where it hits the sidewalk (and took a picture, … Continue reading →

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Abstraction: Efflorescence on a Concrete Wall

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

This caught my eye this morning, and I immediately envisioned it as something that might make a nice abstract image in a photograph. I know what ā€œefflorescenceā€ is only because when I worked as a litigation paralegal many years ago, … Continue reading →

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Abstraction: Office Building Foyer

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Just really liked the various lines and colors. The ā€œwholeā€ isnā€™t so interesting, but a closeup in isolation is kind of fun. For comparison, hereā€™s the bigger picture of the buildingā€™s entrance, taken from farther away.

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A Quiet Nook

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Our MSOE library has a section thatā€™s built out at a diagonal to the rest of the building. Imagine a square inserted over and through one corner of a rectangle, and you would pretty much have a blueprint of the … Continue reading →

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Fresh!

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Today is super busy and fairly stressful. I have a deadline tomorrow for an abstract of a proposed article that Iā€™m going to try to upload in advance tonight to spare me the last-minute horrors of, say, the journalā€™s website … Continue reading →

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The Invention of Morel

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Our MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering) Faculty and Staff Book Club met Monday night to discuss this short but fascinating novel. But first a “prologue,” complete with photo. We meet at a place called The Explorium Brewpub, which is located … Continue reading →

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