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