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