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Tillman

Joined 22 June 2006
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 edit

 
Trinity test, 1945, now a featured picture!
 
Bedrock in Nilosyrtis Mensae

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

After some unpleasant experiences here, mostly to do with the hyper-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: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8101737-peter-tillman 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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WikiProject Geology.
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WikiProject Mining.
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WikiProject Arizona.
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WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America.
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WikiProject Climate change.
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Wikipedia articles written edit

 
Camp Bird Mill
 
Wavellite
 
SLC, UT 1909. Those hats! That house!
 
I once lived with a geologist as pretty as this...
 
Bobkittens! Little sweethearts ❤️
 
Asmalyk
 
 
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: edit

 
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 edit

 
Break time underground, ca. 1900
 
"Picturesque camp made by a lone geologist on the cinders of Inferno," June 1921. Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
 
Lava Falls, Uinkaret volcanics
 
Unusual halite crystals
 
Tafoni at Salt Point, Sonoma Coast, California
 
Travertine, Thermopolis, Wyoming
 
 
 
Trestle, Central Pacific Railroad, c.1869 by Carleton Watkins.
 
Control panel, Critical Mass Laboratory, 1970
  • 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 edit

 
Huntington Desert Garden
 
Ithuriel's Spear
 
Western bistort
 
Wildflowers edit

Arts, crafts, ethnology, ethnography edit

 
 
 
Sold for US$188,000, October 1999
Vanity Fair portraits and caricatures edit
 
Working stiffs, 1880

Motor Vehicles, Railroads, Transport edit

 
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 edit

 
 
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad, by Carleton E. Watkins, ca 1869
 
 
 
Quemado, NM

Naval & Maritime edit

Other Military, Aerospace edit

 
 
Tank driver, 1942

Alaska edit

Arizona edit

 
Fred Kabotie mural at Painted Desert Inn, ca. 1947
 
 
 
 
 
Sierra Bonita Ranch
 
 
 
 
Ray Mine overlook
 

California edit

 
 
 
Duke Kahanamoku, 1920
 
 
 
 
Coso sheep

Colorado edit

 
 
Carpenter Gothic in Black Hawk

Nevada edit

 
Aurora, Nevada, 1934

New Mexico edit

 
 
 
Tetragrammaton over the main entrance to St. Francis cathedral
 
Rancho de Taos church
 
 
Fall colors at the Brazos Cliffs, near Tierra Amarilla

Oklahoma edit

 

Oregon edit

Texas edit

Utah edit

 
Armed party deivering the goods, SLC, 1917
 

Washington state edit

Wyoming edit

 

Southwest US edit

 

Canada edit

Mexico edit

 
 
Etchohuaquila, Navajoa, Sonora

South America edit

 

National parks, public land, conservation edit

 
 
Fossil Butte, Wyoming

Science Fiction edit

Miscellaneous edit

 
Anasazi mugs
 
 
 
Marian Anderson christens USS Booker T. Washington
 
Mosque, Almonaster la Real

Image galleries edit

 
Tumacacori mission,1937

Drafts, in progress, archives edit

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