This user has created a global account and the main one is on Wikipedia (sv). This user has been on Wikimedia Commons for 17 years, 11 months and 16 days 100,000+ This user has made over 100,000 contributions to Commons. This user has uploaded 3700 images to Wikimedia Commons. This user comes from Sweden. Category:Users in Sweden#Achird This user participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. Category:WLM 2011 contributorsCategory:WLM contributors This user participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Category:WLM 2012 contributorsCategory:WLM contributors This user participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. Category:WLM 2013 contributorsCategory:WLM contributors This user participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2015. Category:WLM 2015 contributorsCategory:WLM contributors

I, Gunnar Creutz also known as the user Achird, have mostly been active here at Wikimedia Commons and at Swedish Wikipedia. For many years I was working as an archaeologist and exhibition designer at Falbygdens museum in the province of Västergötland in Sweden. My main interests have been Archaeology, Norse paganism/Norse mythology, and Progressive rock. Mediaeval churches and my local area Västergötland have also been of interest. I have also liked to collect old maps and to draw maps. I have worked with the subcategories of Category:Archaeological monuments in Sweden, Category:Archaeological finds from Sweden, Category:Hundreds of Sweden, and Category:Civil parishes of Sweden. If you want to know more about me and my interests you can check my user page in Swedish. I have taken at least 148,000 photos since 1989, but just the latest sixteen years with digital cameras. I wish I had more time to find the most valuable photos, scan them, retouch them, and upload them here. Most of the photos I have uploaded are retouched in ways of sharpening, contrast change, and colour adjustment.

Pages created by Achird

Pictures added by Achird

Licence

For those of my pictures released with the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence or the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence I would be glad if my name is mentioned when the pictures are used. For use within the Wikimedia projects my username Achird or even just the link to the description page at Wikimedia Commons will do nicely. For use outside the Wikimedia projects I would prefer that "Gunnar Creutz, Wikimedia Commons" is mentioned as source along with the licence code CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0. There is no need to contact me about using the pictures.

Examples of pictures added by Achird

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  Svenska: Växt: Jättebjörnloka (Heracleum mantegazzianum) på Väsmestorps tå, Sörby socken, Vilske härad, Västergötland.

  English: Return of the Giant Hogweed.
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  Svenska: Myxomycet: Sotägg (Enteridium lycoperdon) på alstam i Väsmestorps naturreservat
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  Svenska: Svamp: Hagtornsrost (Gymnosporangium clavariiforme) på enbuske (Juniperus communis) i Väsmestorps naturreservat.
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  Svenska: Insekt: Rödbent bärfis (Pentatoma rufipes).
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  Svenska: Insekt: Luktgräsfjäril (Aphantopus hyperantus) på Ölandstok (Dasiphora fruticosa).
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  Svenska: Archosauria: Flygödlan Dorygnathus banthensis från jura.

  English: The Jurassic Pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis.
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  Svenska: Lepidosauria: Ormskinn efter snok (Natrix natrix).
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  Svenska: Däggdjur: Rådjurskid i blåbärsriset på ett övertorvat röjningsröse, Sörby socken, Vilske härad, Västergötland.
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  Svenska: Karta över Väsmestorps naturreservat i Sörby socken, Vilske härad, Västergötland.
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  English: Passage grave in Luttra, Västergötland, Sweden.

  Svenska: Gånggriften i Luttra, Västergötland, Sverige.
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  Svenska: Hallonflickan väljs ut.
  Egen teckning.
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  English: Distribition of pictographs in Sweden.

  Svenska: Fördelningen av hällmålningar i Sverige.
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  Svenska: Ållebergskragen på Falbygdens museum.
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  Svenska: Skeppssättningar vid Anundshög in Västmanland. Denna bild vann i kategorin Fornlämningar i den svenska delen av Wiki Loves Monuments 2011.
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  English: The Karlevi runestone, Öland, Sweden.
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  English: The Old Church of Suntak, Västergötland, Sweden.

  Svenska: Suntaks gamla kyrka, Västergötland, Sverige.
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  English: A Romanesque tomb at the mediaeval church of Kinneved, Västergötland, Sweden.
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  Svenska: Detalj av dopfunten i Jäla kyrka, Vilske härad, Västergötland.
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  Svenska: Peringskiöld, Ättartal för Swea och Götha KonungaHus (1725) titelblad.
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  English: 100 Rubel banknote from Russia.
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  English: Alphems arboretum outside Floby, Västergötland, Sweden.
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  English: David Jackson's saxophones.
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  Svenska: Storbuckasten, Bäckagårdens utmark, Sörby socken, Vilske härad, Västergötland.
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  Svenska: Torrevalla kyrkväg genom Skymlagårdens utmark, Sörby socken, Vilske härad, Västergötland.

The Name Achird

Achird is the name of the brighter star in the star system Eta Cassiopeiae. In 1984 I started to write a novel with heavy influences of fantasy and science fiction. This story took place on a fictive exoplanet orbiting the sunlike star Achird. Later on I started to use the name Achird as an alias on Internet.