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[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.


This user is one of the 4000 most active English Wikipedians of all time.
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National Register of Historic PlacesThis user participates in
WikiProject National Register
of Historic Places.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Geology.
This user participates in
WikiProject Mining.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Ghost towns.
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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...
I once lived with a geologist as pretty as this...
Bobkittens! Little sweethearts ❤️
Asmalyk
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
Huntington Desert Garden
Ithuriel's Spear
Western bistort
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
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]

Special:Prefixindex/User:Tillman

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