User:Tillman

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Mother sea otter with rare twin baby pups, in Morro Bay, California. Photo by my friend Mike Baird. This might be my favorite of the many of his photos in use here at Wikipedia & Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Mike_Baird for another 425 or so. Nice guy, too.
Fast otter, faster shutter, Kenai Fjords. Love that water!

Bits about me, mostly old

Trinity test, 1945, now a featured picture
Bedrock in Nilosyrtis Mensae. Green Mars?

Joined the Wikipedia project in June 2006. My, how time flies.

After some unpleasant experiences here, mostly due to the politicized Climate Change articles at Wikipedia, I am less active here than formerly. Too bad, since I actually know something about that topic.

I review books for print and online publications. Most of my reviews are now at Goodreads: I'm a retired mineral exploration geologist, formerly based in Arizona and New Mexico, now living on the Central Coast of California. Served in the USNR, sometime after Adm. Farragut. Older than dirt.

Other interests/(semi?)-expertise:

  • Science fiction
  • SW US history and prehistory
  • Northern Mexico history and prehistory
  • Ethnographic art
  • Paleoclimates in the geologic record, and implications for modern climate change


The photographs and images featured here are among my favorites of the thousands I've uploaded to Wikipedia. Click on them for the source, more information, and a full-size image.


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Wikipedia articles written

Camp Bird Mill in 1940, photo by Russell Lee.
Wavellite
SLC, UT 1909. Those hats! That house!
Paleontologist at work, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Bobkittens! Little sweethearts ❤️
Asmalyk, Yomut, Turkmenistan
Angel Peak Scenic Area
Little Finland, NV
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  • I'm also an active contributor of photos and other images at Commons. See here for details.

Substantial contributions to:

Gold dredge in the Klondike River, 1915.
  • This list is (pretty much) updated to 13 September 2009. It was getting too tedious to keep up with it, so I'm not updating it anymore.

Geology, mining, climate change

Break time underground near Leadville, ca. 1900
"Picturesque camp made by a lone geologist on the cinders of Inferno," June 1921. Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
Uinkaret volcanics, Lava Falls, Grand Canyon
Unusual halite crystals from Fayum, Egypt.
Tafoni at Salt Point, Sonoma Coast, California
Travertine, Thermopolis, Wyoming
Petroglyphs, Glen Canyon
Trestle, Central Pacific Railroad, c.1869 by Carleton Watkins.
Control panel, Critical Mass Laboratory, Rocky Flats Plant, 1970
Spectacular Lazulite specimen found near Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. The crystals, to 1.2 cm across, are gemmy, lustrous, and have an unusual bi-coloration of royal blue and emerald green.
Bronzitite thin section of a rock made of olivine and pyroxene. This photomicrograph is almost all bronzite pyroxene.
Spriggina floundersi, life reconstruction of an Ediacaran organism from the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Named in honor of its discoverer, mining geologist Reg Sprigg. Average size was about 4 cm.
  • Ongoing Image Project: I'm going through the voluminous Robert Lavinsky mineral photo donation, and adding photos to appropriate articles. It's a big job -- but lots of pretty pictures. See User:Tillman/Favorite minerals for some samples. Pretty much done as of the end of 2021.


Botany

Huntington Desert Garden
Ithuriel's Spear
Western bistort
Poppies in the Sunset on Lake Geneva
Wildflowers

Arts, crafts, ethnology, ethnography

Hotamis Kilim, Central Anatolia, early 19th century
Silk Panel, 1887. Produced by Alexander Morton and Company, Scotland
Orient Stars Star Kazak, mid 19th century.
Vanity Fair portraits and caricatures
Kaiser Bill, 1870
Working stiffs, 1880

Motor Vehicles, Railroads, Transport

Roundhouse wipers, 1943. A Featured Picture at Commons
Temple Square, Salt Lake City 1915.The Redman Van and Storage Company changed its name after its storage warehouse burned down in 1907.

Other Science and Engineering

Spondylus shell from the Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad, by Carleton E. Watkins, ca 1869
Two WAVES and a sailor, 1950
Quemado, NM

Other Military, Aerospace

First helicopter airmail, Los Angeles, 1947
Tank driver, 1942

Alaska

Arizona

Fred Kabotie mural at Painted Desert Inn, ca. 1947
Old Main, University of Arizona, Tucson
The Big Room in Kartchner Caverns
Polished azurite from Bisbee. Collected in 1890, it is about 9" in diameter. A remarkable specimen!
Painted Desert & Petrified Forest National Park aerial, from the window of a commercial flight
Sierra Bonita Ranch
Pinal County Courthouse in 1938.jpg
Pinal County Courthouse in 1938. Courthouse was built in 1891.
Ray Mine overlook
Ray Mine overlook

California

Dumont Dunes, south of Death Valley. The trace of the old Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad is visible on the right.
Duke Kahanamoku, 1920
Coso sheep

Colorado

Carpenter Gothic in Black Hawk

Nevada

Aurora, Nevada, 1934

New Mexico

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2007
Girls at White Sands, 1936
Tetragrammaton over the main entrance to St. Francis cathedral
Ranchos de Taos church
Santuario de San Lorenzo, Bernalillo
Fall colors at the Brazos Cliffs, near Tierra Amarilla

Oklahoma

"Old Central", Oklahoma A&M College, ca. 1894

Oregon

Texas

Utah

Armed party deivering the goods, SLC, 1917
Comb Ridge with Bluff, Utah in the foreground, on the San Juan River, 2008

Washington state

Wyoming

Sinks Canyon State Park, Wyoming. The Middle Popo Agie River 'sinks' into the cavern.

Southwest US

A Navajo boy stands inside a "T"-shaped doorway at Balcony House, Mesa Verde, 1929

Canada

Mexico

Etchohuaquila, Navajoa, Sonora

South America

National parks, public land, conservation

Fossil Butte, Wyoming

Science Fiction

Miscellaneous

Anasazi mugs
Casting call for black cats, 1961
Marian Anderson christens USS Booker T. Washington
Mosque, Almonaster la Real

Image galleries

  • Media related to Files uploaded by PDTillman at Wikimedia Commons
Tumacacori mission,1937

Drafts, in progress, archives

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