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