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