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