Wikimore

Long-time Wikimedian who decided, a few years ago, to try to take better pictures to contribute to Commons. I feel like I've learned a lot from this community, and continue to do so. Always welcome photography tips/constructive criticism.

Though I take pictures of lots of things, a few areas of concentration are the New York City area in general, protests, conventions (not so much in 2020), and birds (much more so in 2020). If you're in NYC (or coming to NYC) and want tips or to plan a photography outing, let me know. There are several Wikimedian photographers here.

My main camera is an Olympus OM-D E-M5 mark ii (micro four-thirds format). I like it, but don't know if I can recommend the format any longer. Olympus announced in 2020 that they plan to get out of the camera game. The future of its camera business seems unclear at the moment, possibly being transferred to another company, and Panasonic is the only other company making the gear (with some compatibility issues around the way they do their image stabilization). I hope it'll look up, but we'll see.

This is my main account for contributing to Wikimedia projects. From March-July 2021, I contracted with the Wikimedia Foundation, researching the impact of Suggested Edits on Commons. My WMF account is User:Rhododendrites (WMF), which is now inactive. Edits I make through this account are strictly as a volunteer.

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Featured Pictures - the birds
Image 1Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 2Close-up of a white-throated sparrow in Central Park
Image 3Purple martin in flight in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 4Piping plover chick in Queens
Image 5Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
Image 6Great blue heron in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 7Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 8Green heron in Prospect Park
Image 9Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Image 10Male brown-headed cowbird in Prospect Park
Image 11Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 12Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Image 13Blackpoll warbler in a flowering dogwood tree in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 14Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 15Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
Image 16Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 17Least sandpiper in breeding plumage in Queens, NYC
Image 18White ibis in Ocean City, New Jersey (I kind of prefer the uncropped version)
Image 19Eastern wood pewee in Central Park
Image 20Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 21Snowy egret
Image 22House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 23Yellow warbler in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 24Black-crowned night heron in Prospect Park
Image 25Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
Image 26Snowy egret in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 27Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
Image 28European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
Image 29Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
Image 30Male northern flicker in Manhattan, NYC
Image 31Red-necked phalarope at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 32Ovenbird in Prospect Park
Image 33Chipping sparrow on a grave in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 34Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 35Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
Image 36Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Park
Image 37American coot in Prospect Park
Image 38Tropical kingbird in the rain by Lake Arenal
Image 39Lincoln's sparrow in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 40Male northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 41Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 42Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Piers Park
Image 43American woodcock in Bryant Park
Image 44Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
Image 45Gray catbird with a chokeberry in Prospect Park
Image 46Black-capped chickadee eating seeds in Central Park
Image 47Northern cardinal female in Central Park
Image 48Warbling vireo singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 49Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 50Baltimore oriole (immature/female) in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 51Gray catbird in Central Park
Image 52Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 53Eastern kingbird
Image 54Blue-gray tanager in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 55White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 56Ring-billed gull in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 57First-winter American herring gull, Brooklyn
Image 58Female Blackburnian warbler in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 59Palm warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 60Broad-billed motmot at the Arenal Observatory
Image 61Dark-eyed junco at Bush Terminal Park
Image 62Great blue heron on frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 63Blue jay in Prospect Park
Image 64Cedar waxwing in pokeweed in Prospect Park
Image 65Redhead in Central Park
Image 66Golden-crowned kinglet at a banding station
Image 67Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
Image 68Juvenile American robin
Image 69Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 70Juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Prospect Park
Image 71Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
Image 72American avocet
Image 73Killdeer at the South Cape May Meadows
Image 74Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 75Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park
Image 76Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
Image 77Semipalmated plover in Queens, NYC
Image 78Ruby-crowned kinglet in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 79Pine warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 80A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
Image 81Palm warbler in a meadow in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 82Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
Image 83Immature herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 84Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron at Plumb Beach
Image 85Northern waterthrush in Central Park
Image 86American tree sparrow in Central Park
Image 87Dark-eyed junco in Brooklyn
Image 88Great blue heron lurching its head back to swallow a brown watersnake in Green Cay Wetlands
Image 89Pine warbler in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 90Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park
Image 91Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 92Pine siskin in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 93Brown creeper about to be released at a bird banding station in the United States
Image 94Field sparrow in Central Park
Image 95Lesser yellowlegs in Queens, NYC
Image 96Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
Image 97Female wood duck
Image 98First winter laughing gull in Riverhead, New York
Image 99House sparrow mother with chicks
Image 100Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Image 101Tufted titmouse perched in Central Park
Image 102White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 103Great kiskadee in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 104American robin
Image 105Immature mute swan in Prospect Park
Image 106Female brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 107American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
Image 108Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 109Mute swan and cygnets on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 110Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 111Semipalmated sandpiper at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 112Veery in the Central Park Ramble
Image 113White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 114Female American redstart in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 115Lesser yellowlegs at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 116House sparrows in Central Park
Image 117Red-tailed hawk, fearsome predator
Image 118Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 119Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
Image 120Palm warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 121Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 122Glossy ibis in Queens, NYC
Image 123Rufous motmot, Costa Rica
Image 124Winter wren in Prospect Park
Image 125American goldfinch in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 126Juvenile Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 127Ring-billed gull coming in for an unwelcome landing
Image 128Immature cooper's hawk in Prospect Park
Image 129American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
Image 130Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
Image 131Apricot Mandarin duckling in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 132Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
Image 133Cedar waxwing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 134A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
Image 135Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
Image 136American avocet fishing in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 137Hermit thrush at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 138House wren doing its best eel impression guarding its nestbox.
Image 139Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
Image 140Bay-breasted warbler in Central Park
Image 141Golden-crowned kinglet
Image 142Piping plover in Queens
Image 143Semipalmated sandpiper vocalizing in Queens, NYC
Image 144Male yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 145Common grackle in Prospect Park
Image 146Gray catbird in Prospect Park
Image 147Eastern wood pewee in Prospect Park
Image 148Male black-throated green warbler in Prospect Park
Image 149Female northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 150Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 151Juvenile eastern kingbird
Image 152Male northern shoveler in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 153Huge flock of gulls just after they were spooked by something during a horseshoe crab feeding frenzy in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 154European starling in Central Park
Image 155Gray catbird watching a hawk fly overhead in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 156Red-tailed hawk rescue
Image 157Female hooded merganser resting on the Central Park Reservoir
Image 158Mandarin duck drake in eclipse plumage in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 159Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
 
Featured Pictures - everything else
Image 1Eastern cicada killer perched on a black-eyed susan
Image 2Abandoned van by Gerritsen Creek
Image 3Redbeckia occidentalis
Image 4Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
Image 5Triq San Patrizju facing the Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
Image 6Hell Gate Bridge
Image 7Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
Image 8Female eastern amberwing
Image 9Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
Image 10Nine-banded armadillo in Costa Rica
Image 11Hell Gate Bridge walking path on Randall's Island
Image 12Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
Image 13White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanut
Image 14American lady butterfly on a purple coneflower
Image 15Bee balm seedhead
Image 16Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 17Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
Image 18Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 19Two juvenile Nubian ibex
Image 20Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
Image 21Tiger bee fly
Image 22Eastern gray squirrel in Central Park
Image 23Sukkah at Congregation Emanu-El of New York
Image 24Monarch butterfly
Image 25White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel perched on a tree in Brooklyn
Image 26Sarracenia leucophylla
Image 27Moschino fall 2014 ready-to-wear ensemble in the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Met
Image 28Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Met
Image 29Male monarch butterfly on Tithonia
Image 30Mantled howler monkey with baby in Costa Rica
Image 31Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
Image 32Coleus
Image 33The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
Image 34Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
Image 35Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Image 36Northern dog-day cicaca exuvia on a flower in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 37Fulton Center skylight
Image 38Male eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 39Juvenile Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 40Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
Image 41Eastern cottontail portrait in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 42Proboscis bats in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Image 43Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
Image 44Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
Image 45Blue dasher with Arrenurus water mites in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 46Monarch butterfly
Image 47Red admiral butterfly on purple coneflower in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 48Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
Image 49Male familiar bluet
Image 50Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
Image 51One World Trade Center through the Oculus
Image 52Strawberry poison dart frog in Costa Rica
Image 53Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
Image 54Maroon Bells
Image 55Duomo Firenze terrace
Image 56Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
Image 57Glass blower. This was moments before he accidentally dropped it. Heartbreaking (and vasebreaking). Talented folks here, though, and I actually went back a while later and took a class. Got a piece of lit up frozen spaghetti to prove it.
Image 58Common buckeye in Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis
Image 59Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
Image 60Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
Image 61Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
Image 62Pond sliders in Prospect Park
Image 63Ship in the San Francisco Bay fog. Got lucky with the dramatic fog on this one, which opened up just enough to frame the ship in light.
Image 64California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
Image 65Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
Image 66A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 67Daubeny's water lily
Image 68Raccoon in Central Park
Image 69Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
Image 70Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Katowice
Image 71Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
Image 72Bluebells in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 73Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Image 74Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 75Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 76Jun Takahashi dress for Undercover in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met
Image 77Male elephant seal resting between fights in Ano Nuevo
Image 78Chinese mantis ootheca in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 79Frizzle sizzle
Image 80City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
Image 81Salix catkins
Image 82Pearl crescent on purple coneflower
Image 83Florence seen from the Duomo terrace
Image 84An island (with ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fog
Image 85Clouded sulphur in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 86Eastern amberwing
Image 87Red-legged grasshopper feeding on a flower in Tennessee
Image 88The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
Image 89Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
Image 90A cavapoo dog chasing a malipoo dog with a ball
Image 91Oculus
Image 92Large milkweed bug
Image 93Makhtesh Ramon
Image 94Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Image 95Immature male blue dasher
Image 96A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 97Meadow in the morning in the Great Smoky Mountains (with namesake smoke)
Image 98Red squirrel in Lazienki Park
Image 99Comme des Garcons at the Met
Image 100Left by Gucci/Dapper Dan, 2018. Right by Louis Vuitton/Kim Jones, autumn/winter 2018-19, Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image 101Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
Image 102Hell Gate Bridge, with a scow being towed along the Hell Gate section of the East River
Image 103Pipevine swallowtail
Image 104Male zabulon skipper in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 105Small milkweed bug in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 106Sasheer Zamata at a Time's Up event during the Tribeca Film Festival
Image 107Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
Image 108Baird's tapir mother with baby in Costa Rica
Image 109Stata Center at MIT
Image 110Eldridge Street Synagogue
Image 111Twice-stabbed stink bug on meadow anemone
Image 112Female Huron sachem in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 113Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
Image 114Monarch butterfly caterpillar on butterfly weed
Image 115Crocuses in early spring.
Image 116Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
Image 117Bigfin reef squid at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 118Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
Image 119Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
Image 120Orchard orbweaver
Image 121Alexander Hamilton Custom House Collector's Room ceiling. Had to be a bit obnoxious to get this one, setting up a little tripod in the center of a crowded room and actually getting down on the floor to frame it. Who doesn't like a nice ornate ceiling with a nautical theme, though?
Image 122Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Providence. It's been stuck in the open position for 50 years. A local landmark, but slated for destruction soon.
Image 123Composite of a clementine with/without peel
Image 124Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken just after Stonewall Inn was designated part of a National Monument
Image 125Moss-covered oak trees in the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
Image 126A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 127Staszic Palace, Warsaw
Image 128Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
Image 129Fork-tailed bush katydid close-up in Walland, Tennessee
Image 130Razor clamshell dress from spring/summer 2001, in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met
Image 131Great golden digger wasp in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 132Northern flatid planthopper nymph
Image 133California sea lion in La Jolla. My first experience seeing wild sea lions in person. It was ... loud. This one just looked downright majestic in the sun.
Image 134Group photo of four pears
Image 135TWA Hotel
Image 136Castle Square, Warsaw
Image 137Lower Manhattan panorama
Image 138Magnolia x veitchii bud
Image 139Algal mat in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 140Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
Image 141Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
Image 142Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
Image 143Boston Public Garden
Image 144Arenal volcano