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 4Gray catbird in Prospect Park
- Image 8Winter wren in Prospect Park
- Image 14American robin
- Image 15Juvenile American robin
- Image 16Ovenbird in Prospect Park
- Image 17Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
- Image 20Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
- Image 36Golden-crowned kinglet
- Image 37American coot in Prospect Park
- Image 42Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Image 46Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
- Image 49Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
- Image 53Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
- Image 57Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
- Image 58Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
- Image 61Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
- Image 63Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Image 69Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Image 73Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
- Image 74Piping plover in Queens
- Image 76Piping plover chick in Queens, New York
- Image 81A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
- Image 87Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
- Image 90Red-tailed hawk rescue
- Image 94A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
- Image 98Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
- Image 103Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
- Image 107American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
Featured Pictures - everything else
- Image 1Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Image 4Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Image 5California 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 6Pyrosoma atlanticum. Took me a while to figure out what on earth this was. Found in a tidepool in Monterey.
- Image 8Frizzle sizzle
- Image 10Boston Public Garden
- Image 11Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
- Image 12Maroon Bells
- Image 13Lower Manhattan panorama
- Image 16Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
- Image 17Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
- Image 18TWA Hotel
- Image 20Daubeny's water lily
- Image 22Jade vine (not made of candy)
- Image 23Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
- Image 26A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
- Image 27Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
- Image 28Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
- Image 29Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
- Image 30Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken at the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated part of a National Monument
- Image 33Alexander 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 34Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
- Image 35Group photo of four pears
- Image 36Composite of a clementine with/without peel
- Image 37Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
- Image 39Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
- Image 40Two juvenile Nubian ibex
- Image 41Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
- Image 42Monarch butterfly
- Image 43Sarracenia leucophylla
- Image 44Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
- Image 45Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
- Image 46Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
- Image 47Crook 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 48Redbeckia occidentalis
- Image 51A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
- Image 52Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
- Image 53The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
- Image 54City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
- Image 56Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
- Image 58Coney Island Mermaid Parade
- Image 59Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
- Image 60Monarch butterfly
- Image 63Triq San Patrizju facing Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
- Image 64Gaillardia
- Image 66Ship 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 67Glass 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 68Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
- Image 69Coleus
- Image 70Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
- Image 72Makhtesh Ramon
- Image 73Eldridge Street Synagogue
- Image 75Ceiling mosaic in the Surrogate's Courthouse
- Image 76RJ Palacio
- Image 77Bee balm seedhead
- Image 81Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
- Image 82The Oculus
- Image 83The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
- Image 84Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
- Image 85Salix catkins
- Image 86Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
- Image 87Magnolia x veitchii bud
- Image 88Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
- Image 90Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
- Image 93Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
- Image 94A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
- Image 95Old Hook Mill
- Image 96Hell Gate Bridge
- Image 97Stata Center at MIT
- Image 98Fulton Center skylight
- Image 99Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
- Image 100Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
- Image 101Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Image 102Crocuses in early spring.
- Image 104Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
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