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 1Piping plover chick in Queens
Image 2American goldfinch in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 3Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 4Snowy egret
Image 5Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
Image 6Great kiskadee in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 7Carrion crow with some berries in Hyde Park, London
Image 8Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
Image 9Killdeer at the South Cape May Meadows
Image 10White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 11Mute swan and cygnets on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 12Great blue heron on frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 13Huge flock of gulls just after they were spooked by something during a horseshoe crab feeding frenzy in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 14Bay-breasted warbler in Central Park
Image 15American coot in Prospect Park
Image 16Red-tailed hawk rescue
Image 17Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
Image 18Semipalmated sandpiper at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 19Female American redstart in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 20Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 21Gray catbird in Prospect Park
Image 22Ring-billed guys jockeying for position over a culvert in the Forsythe Wildlife Refuge
Image 23Redhead in Central Park
Image 24Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
Image 25Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 26Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 27Nashville warbler with a caterpillar in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Image 28Palm warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 29Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Image 30White ibis in Ocean City, New Jersey (I kind of prefer the uncropped version)
Image 31Grey heron in Hyde Park, London
Image 32Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 33Eastern kingbird on the hunt in Brooklyn, NY
Image 34Juvenile eastern kingbird
Image 35Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
Image 36Red-tailed hawk, fearsome predator
Image 37Northern waterthrush in Central Park
Image 38Male northern shoveler in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 39Piping plover in Queens
Image 40Tufted titmouse perched in Central Park
Image 41Juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Prospect Park
Image 42Red-necked phalarope at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 43Broad-billed motmot at the Arenal Observatory
Image 44Long-tailed tit by the Farmoor Reservoir, Oxford
Image 45House sparrow mother with chicks
Image 46First winter laughing gull in Riverhead, New York
Image 47Gray catbird watching a hawk fly overhead in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 48Purple martin in flight in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 49European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
Image 50Semipalmated sandpiper vocalizing in Queens, NYC
Image 51Pine warbler in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 52Great blue heron lurching its head back to swallow a brown watersnake in Green Cay Wetlands
Image 53Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 54Gray catbird in Central Park
Image 55Female brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 56Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Park
Image 57Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 58Male brown-headed cowbird in Prospect Park
Image 59Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 60Blue jay in Prospect Park
Image 61Winter wren in Prospect Park
Image 62Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron at Plumb Beach
Image 63Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
Image 64Blue-gray tanager in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 65Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 66Golden-crowned kinglet
Image 67First-winter American herring gull, Brooklyn
Image 68Rufous motmot, Costa Rica
Image 69Baltimore oriole (immature/female) in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 70Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
Image 71Black-capped chickadee eating seeds in Central Park
Image 72House wren doing its best eel impression guarding its nestbox.
Image 73A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
Image 74Ovenbird in Prospect Park
Image 75Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
Image 76Glossy ibis in Queens, NYC
Image 77American robin
Image 78A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
Image 79Hermit thrush at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 80Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
Image 81Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
Image 82Palm warbler in a meadow in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 83Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 84White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 85Eastern wood pewee in Central Park
Image 86Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
Image 87Close-up of a white-throated sparrow in Central Park
Image 88Snowy egret in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 89Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Image 90Pine warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 91House sparrows in Central Park
Image 92Semipalmated plover in Queens, NYC
Image 93Immature herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 94Ring-billed gull coming in for an unwelcome landing
Image 95Ring-billed gull in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 96Eastern wood pewee in Prospect Park
Image 97Great blue heron in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 98Female wood duck
Image 99White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 100Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
Image 101Gray catbird with a chokeberry in Prospect Park
Image 102Lesser yellowlegs at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 103Mandarin duck drake in eclipse plumage in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 104Cedar waxwing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 105American avocet fishing in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 106Female Blackburnian warbler in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 107Egyptian goose head in Hyde Park, London
Image 108Least sandpiper in breeding plumage in Queens, NYC
Image 109Palm warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 110Juvenile Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 111American avocet
Image 112Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 113Palm warbler in a meadow in Brooklyn, NY
Image 114Green heron in Prospect Park
Image 115Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park
Image 116Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park
Image 117House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 118Ruby-crowned kinglet in Brooklyn, NY
Image 119Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Image 120Warbling vireo singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 121Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 122Yellow warbler in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 123Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
Image 124Immature cooper's hawk in Prospect Park
Image 125Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
Image 126Male northern flicker in Manhattan, NYC
Image 127Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 128Apricot Mandarin duckling in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 129Brown creeper about to be released at a bird banding station in the United States
Image 130American tree sparrow in Central Park
Image 131Dark-eyed junco at Bush Terminal Park
Image 132European starling in Central Park
Image 133Field sparrow in Central Park
Image 134Chipping sparrow on a grave in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 135Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 136Golden-crowned kinglet at a banding station
Image 137Northern cardinal female in Central Park
Image 138Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
Image 139Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 140Blackpoll warbler in a flowering dogwood tree in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 141Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
Image 142Eastern kingbird
Image 143Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
Image 144Juvenile American robin
Image 145American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
Image 146Cedar waxwing in pokeweed in Prospect Park
Image 147Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 148American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
Image 149Tropical kingbird in the rain by Lake Arenal
Image 150Female hooded merganser resting on the Central Park Reservoir
Image 151Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 152Black-crowned night heron in Prospect Park
Image 153Immature mute swan in Prospect Park
Image 154Pine siskin in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 155Lincoln's sparrow in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 156Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Piers Park
Image 157Lesser yellowlegs in Queens, NYC
Image 158Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 159Male northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 160Dark-eyed junco in Brooklyn
Image 161American woodcock in Bryant Park
Image 162Veery in the Central Park Ramble
Image 163Female northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 164Male black-throated green warbler in Prospect Park
Image 165Common grackle in Prospect Park
Image 166Ruby-crowned kinglet in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 167Male yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 168Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
Image 169Yellow-rumped warbler on a pond in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
 
Featured Pictures - everything else
Image 1Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Met
Image 2Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
Image 3TWA Hotel
Image 4Eastern gray squirrel in Central Park
Image 5Stata Center at MIT
Image 6Hell Gate Bridge walking path on Randall's Island
Image 7Female eastern amberwing
Image 8Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Image 9Bluebells in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 10Eastern cottontail portrait in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 11Clouded sulphur in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 12Immature male blue dasher
Image 13Two juvenile Nubian ibex
Image 14Left 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 15Staszic Palace, Warsaw
Image 16Common buckeye in Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis
Image 17A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 18Red-legged grasshopper feeding on a flower in Tennessee
Image 19Florence seen from the Duomo terrace
Image 20Fulton Center skylight
Image 21Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
Image 22Blue dasher with Arrenurus water mites in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 23Jun Takahashi dress for Undercover in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met
Image 24Bigfin reef squid at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 25Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Katowice
Image 26Moschino fall 2014 ready-to-wear ensemble in the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Met
Image 27American lady butterfly on a purple coneflower
Image 28Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
Image 29Northern dog-day cicaca exuvia on a flower in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 30Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
Image 31Group photo of four pears
Image 32Monarch butterfly
Image 33Pond sliders in Prospect Park
Image 34Glass 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 35Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
Image 36Pipevine swallowtail
Image 37Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
Image 38Algal mat in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 39Castle Square, Warsaw
Image 40Large milkweed bug
Image 41Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 42Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
Image 43Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
Image 44Composite of a clementine with/without peel
Image 45Oculus
Image 46Male monarch butterfly on Tithonia
Image 47Male zabulon skipper in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 48Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 49Orchard orbweaver
Image 50Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
Image 51White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanut
Image 52Abandoned van by Gerritsen Creek
Image 53Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
Image 54Hell Gate Bridge, with a scow being towed along the Hell Gate section of the East River
Image 55Red squirrel in Lazienki Park
Image 56Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
Image 57Groundhog eating a tulip poplar in Brooklyn
Image 58Bee balm seedhead
Image 59Great golden digger wasp in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 60Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Image 61Monarch butterfly
Image 62Makhtesh Ramon
Image 63Fork-tailed bush katydid close-up in Walland, Tennessee
Image 64Crocuses in early spring.
Image 65California 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 66Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 67Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
Image 68California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
Image 69Boston Public Garden
Image 70Redbeckia occidentalis
Image 71Magnolia x veitchii bud
Image 72Sarracenia leucophylla
Image 73Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
Image 74Hell Gate Bridge
Image 75Nine-banded armadillo in Costa Rica
Image 76Monarch butterfly caterpillar on butterfly weed
Image 77Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
Image 78Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
Image 79Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
Image 80Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
Image 81Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
Image 82Crook 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 83Frizzle sizzle
Image 84Maroon Bells
Image 85Eastern cicada killer perched on a black-eyed susan
Image 86Male familiar bluet
Image 87White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel perched on a tree in Brooklyn
Image 88Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
Image 89Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
Image 90Strawberry poison dart frog in Costa Rica
Image 91Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
Image 92Razor clamshell dress from spring/summer 2001, in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met
Image 93Eastern amberwing
Image 94Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
Image 95Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken just after Stonewall Inn was designated part of a National Monument
Image 96Raccoon in Central Park
Image 97Triq San Patrizju facing the Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
Image 98Red fox kits playing in the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Image 99Male elephant seal resting between fights in Ano Nuevo
Image 100The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
Image 101One World Trade Center through the Oculus
Image 102Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
Image 103Moss-covered oak trees in the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
Image 104Lower Manhattan panorama
Image 105Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
Image 106Meadow in the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Image 107Male eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 108Arenal volcano
Image 109A cavapoo dog chasing a malipoo dog with a ball
Image 110Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
Image 111Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
Image 112Baird's tapir mother with baby in Costa Rica
Image 113Chinese mantis ootheca in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 114Coleus
Image 115Pearl crescent on purple coneflower
Image 116Meadow in the morning in the Great Smoky Mountains (with namesake smoke)
Image 117The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
Image 118Duomo Firenze terrace
Image 119Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
Image 120Mantled howler monkey with baby in Costa Rica
Image 121Proboscis bats in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Image 122City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
Image 123Northern flatid planthopper nymph
Image 124Ship 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 125Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 126Juvenile Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 127Salix catkins
Image 128Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
Image 129A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 130Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Image 131Fork-tailed bush katydid up close in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Image 132Tiger bee fly
Image 133Eldridge Street Synagogue
Image 134Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
Image 135Daubeny's water lily
Image 136An island (with ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fog
Image 137Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
Image 138Sukkah at Congregation Emanu-El of New York
Image 139Female Huron sachem in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 140Alexander 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 141Red admiral butterfly on purple coneflower in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 142An ant on golden club in the Belleplain Forest, New Jersey
Image 143Female pipevine swallowtail in Walland, Tennessee
Image 144Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
Image 145Small milkweed bug in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 146A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 147Twice-stabbed stink bug on meadow anemone
Image 148Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
Image 149Comme des Garcons at the Met
Image 150Sasheer Zamata at a Time's Up event during the Tribeca Film Festival