Bruce Wilson thought on 10/3/2006 that this photo was displayed properly and added the following:
"The Payson Lakes area has a nice campground. And the aspen are beautiful right now." 4084

Wayne of Orem thought on 6/14/2005 that this photo was displayed properly and added the following:
"Bruce, you did it! You have discovered a new population of Papilio indra minori. This is a very fresh specimen so it looks like the flight has just begun where you are. I guess this is the specimen you saw? There must be either Lomatium junceum, L. parryi or Cymopterus terebinthinus in the area for this fresh specimen to be there. Anxious to hear from you again. Keep up the great work! Wayne" 3327

Bruce Wilson of Provo, Utah thought on 1/9/2005 that this photo was displayed properly and added the following:
"It would sure be a good test of color. Note that this version has the typical blue/red intersection "mosquito noise" typical of .jpg's. Use it if you like, but I can get you a proper .bmp if you send me you email address (send it to [email protected], click on my name). If you use it, please put "(c)Bruce Wilson" on it in clear text. Bruce, KD7VEM " 6268

Dorde Woodruff of SLC thought on 5/30/2004 that this photo was good and added the following:
"A pretty, neat flower on Sclerocactus parviflorus, not S. whipplei, which is a smaller plant, doesn't grow here, and rarely becomes cylindrical. The common name for S. parviflorus is a translation of the Latin, "small-flowered fishhook cactus", or more properly, "small-flowered little barrel cactus", a misnomer, since this species has small flowers only in comparison to the giant of the genus, S. polyancistrus of California. " 4196

Dorde Woodruff of SLC thought on 5/30/2004 that this photo was good and added the following:
"This also appears to be S. parviflorus, but quite a young one. But the petals are narrow than in #8164. It is not S. whipplei, which has yellow flowers and grows in the Navajo reservation area in northern Arizona. The name S. whipplei got widely entrenched in the literature because S. parviflorus wasn't discovered and named until the '30s. " 7739

Dorde Woodruff of SLC thought on 5/30/2004 that this photo was good and added the following:
"This plant is commonly misidentified, even in floras. It isn't S. whipplei but rather S. parviflorus, first named in the 30s by Clover and Jotter on a river trip, in the Grand Canyon. S. whipplei grows on the Navajo reservation and thereabouts in Northern Arizona, is globular unless very old, smaller, and has yellow flowers. " 4433

Bruce Wilson thought on 4/19/2001 that this photo was 'interesting' and added the following:
"It is a macro shot (using a 25mm extension tube), and using the angle finder. Angle finders are essential for getting shots that most people don't see, because you can get your camera in odd locations (on the gorund looking up) and using the finder still see what you're shooting. Were I to do this again I's stop down a little more and keep everything in focus. Most macro photography has a depth of field problem. I think it's usually done to keep the background fuzzy. It's much better to stop down then remove the background with black velvet . With an angle finder you get sky in the background, and fuzzy sky is still sky. This shot was done on a tripod (set very low), but I had to keep the shutter speed high because the wind was blowing and moving the subject." 3310

Bruce Wilson thought on 4/11/2001 that this photo was displayed properly and added the following:
"This tree, at Palisades State Park north of Sious Falls SD, has troubled me for years. I've shot it dozens of times, in varying lights, from all kinds of angles, but I've never gotten it right. This is one of the better color shots. The B&W shots are better, but still not there." 3312

Bruce Wilson thought on 4/7/2001 that this photo was good and added the following:
"South Dakota, due to the extremely flat land here, has the most wonderful evening light. Rich in color but still quite bright, the light just before sunset is the photographers 'majical 20 minutes'. Take a juned old tractor, wait for the light, and you get a pretty-good picture." 3419