User: Rhododendrites
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Active on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons; occasional user of other Wikimedia projects (Wikidata, Meta, etc.). Leave a message or feel free to email.
Wikipedian for quite a while now. Mainly as a researcher for the first few years. Then I started teaching with Wikipedia and finally jumped into [very] active editing in 2013. I tend to edit in a wide variety of topic areas. In fact, as I think about it, it's hard to point to topic area concentrations.
I tend to edit in waves, focusing on adding content for a while, then going into maintenance mode for a while. If you don't see me around here, there's a good chance I'm active over on Commons, or out in the world trying to take pictures for Commons.
I'm involved with WikiNYC and engage in a variety of Wikipedia-related activities both online and offline. Leave me a message if you want to talk about Wikipedia research, Wikipedia in education, or New York-area events/partnerships.
Featured Pictures - the birds
- Image 6Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Image 7Gray catbird in Prospect Park
- Image 9Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
- Image 10Ovenbird in Prospect Park
- Image 12Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
- Image 13Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Image 18Piping plover chick in Queens, New York
- Image 23Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
- Image 35American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
- Image 36Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
- Image 38Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
- Image 44Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
- Image 47Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
- Image 49Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
- Image 52Red-tailed hawk rescue
- Image 53Juvenile American robin
- Image 60A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
- Image 63Winter wren in Prospect Park
- Image 65Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
- Image 67American coot in Prospect Park
- Image 72A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
- Image 75Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
- Image 79Piping plover in Queens
- Image 87Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Image 94Golden-crowned kinglet
- Image 95Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
- Image 96Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
Featured Pictures - everything else
- Image 1Ship 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 2Daubeny's water lily
- Image 3Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
- Image 5Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
- Image 7Crocuses in early spring.
- Image 8Redbeckia occidentalis
- Image 10The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
- Image 11RJ Palacio
- Image 13A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
- Image 14TWA Hotel
- Image 15Sarracenia leucophylla
- Image 16Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
- Image 17Old Hook Mill
- Image 19Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
- Image 22Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
- Image 23Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
- Image 25Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
- Image 26Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
- Image 27Stata Center at MIT
- Image 28Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
- Image 29The Oculus
- Image 30Salix catkins
- Image 31Group photo of four pears
- Image 32Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
- Image 34Crook 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 35Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
- Image 36Boston Public Garden
- Image 38Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
- Image 39Pyrosoma atlanticum. Took me a while to figure out what on earth this was. Found in a tidepool in Monterey.
- Image 40Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken at the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated part of a National Monument
- Image 41City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
- Image 42Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
- Image 43Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
- Image 44Eldridge Street Synagogue
- Image 45Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
- Image 47Composite of a clementine with/without peel
- Image 48Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
- Image 49Alexander 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 50Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
- Image 51California 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 52Coleus
- Image 53Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
- Image 55Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
- Image 57Magnolia x veitchii bud
- Image 58Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
- Image 59Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Image 60Coney Island Mermaid Parade
- Image 61Monarch butterfly
- Image 64Jade vine (not made of candy)
- Image 67Makhtesh Ramon
- Image 68Monarch butterfly
- Image 69Hell Gate Bridge
- Image 70Glass 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 71Frizzle sizzle
- Image 72Ceiling mosaic in the Surrogate's Courthouse
- Image 73Lower Manhattan panorama
- Image 74Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
- Image 75Maroon Bells
- Image 76Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
- Image 77Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Image 79Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Image 81Gaillardia
- Image 83Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
- Image 84A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
- Image 85Fulton Center skylight
- Image 87Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
- Image 88A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
- Image 91Bee balm seedhead
- Image 92Two juvenile Nubian ibex
- Image 93Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
- Image 97Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
- Image 100Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
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