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.

Rhododendrites

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