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I'm a university student studying Engineering and Science in Tasmania, Australia. Most of my photography is of the local flora, fauna and landscapes. I have been contributing to wikipedia anonymously since late 2003 with my first registered edits in 2006. I started photography with a Panasonic DMC-FZ5 whilst in India and Malaysia. I later purchased a Canon EOS 400D, Canon 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 IS, Canon 70-200 f/4L, Canon 400 f/5.6L, Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX, Canon 430EX, Manfrotto 055XPROB/488RC2, Kenko extension tube set and 1.4x teleconverters and some other accessories. I am mostly active on the english wikipedia, I submit my images to commons in the hope that they will be utilized across the wikipedias.

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After obtaining my degree in physics, I developed an interest in the law and trained as a patent and trademark attorney before completing a law degree. I am currently a partner in a London firm of Patent Attorneys.

Photography has been a long-term hobby, and it has been gratifying to discover just how many people and organizations look to Wikimedia Commons as a source of freely-usable images.

I am more than happy to help anyone who is in need of the type of image I take, either for use on Wikipedia or elsewhere. I use a Canon 20D.

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My name is Christian Mehlführer and I am from Vienna, Austria. I am currently working towards my PhD degree in Communications Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology.
I started with digital photography a few years ago with a Minolta Dimage S414 which I replaced by a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-F828 soon. In March 2006 I finally bought my first DSLR and—over the time—several lenses.
I love traveling to far destinations where I take most of my nature images which I contribute to Commons. A passion of mine is high resolution panorama photography for which I am using the Nodal Ninja [1] nodal point adapter on my Manfrotto tripod and PTGUI [2] for stitching. At some time in the next years I want to create my first gigapixel panorama...

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• Camera Bodies: Canon EOS 30D and Canon EOS 50D
  
• Zoom lenses: Canon EF-S 10-22 f/3.5-4.5, Canon EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS, Canon EF 70-200 f/4 L IS, Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L IS
  
• Prime lenses: Canon EF 28 f/1.8, Canon EF 50 f/1.4, Canon EF-S 60 f/2.8 Macro, Canon EF 85 f/1.8, Sigma APO Macro 180 f/3.5 EX IF HSM
  
• Flash: Canon Speedlite 430EX
  
• Tripod: Manfrotto 190XProB

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I've been contributing to Wikimedia Commons since June 2007. Living in Osaka Japan.

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Pentax K10D

Tamron SP AF90mm F/2.8 Di (Model272E)

Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC Macro

smc Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8ED

Pentax FA50mm F1.4

Slik Professional II-N

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http://www.laitche.com/

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I’m an 18 year old year 12 student in rural Australia, I’ve been contributing my images to the articles on the English Wikipedia for over a year. The majority of my photos are of wildlife local to my area and I particularly like taking bird shots. I enjoy stitching panoramas and editing/enhancing my pictures in Photoshop - the "digital darkroom".

My equipment includes: A Panasonic FZ-30 Lens: 7.4-88.8mm (35-420mm 35mm equivalent) ~ Raynox macro conversion attachment ~ Software: Photoshop CS3

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I'm a 29 years old programmer living in Marne-la-Vallée, in the suburbs of Paris. I started photography with an Olympus D40-Z compact camera and later got into panoramas. I realised how far we can go after I came across a POD showing a panorama of Sydney harbour on english Wikipedia. I decided I could try to do the same and that instead of keeping my pictures for myself, I could give them to Wikipedia which is so useful to me.

I shoot mainly landscape panoramas, with a preference for night architecture shots.

I use a Canon EOS 400D most of the time with an EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 and a Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 lenses, and am very pleased with the results. I use and try to promote free softwares for post processing. They include Gimp, Hugin, Enblend, Enfuse and ImageMagick.

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I've been contributing to Wikimedia Commons since 2006. Lately i started to contribute to German wikipedia as well. You can see my complete profile here.
My portfolio mainly consists of landscape- and macropictures, which are my favourite kinds of photography.

My photo equipment:

Nikon D50

Tamron SP AF 17-50/2,8 XR Di II LD

Tokina AT-X AF 100/2,8 Makro Pro D

Nikkor AF 50mm f/1,8 D

AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm 1:4-5,6G ED

AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55 mm 1:3,5-5,6G ED

Visit also my personal website: http://www.simonizer.de (Not finished yet)

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I've been contributing to Wikipedia and related projects since November 2004. Photography is a hobby and a nice balance to my physics job. My equipment includes a Canon EOS 5D, with a Canon 24-105mm f/4.0L, a Sigma 150mm Macro, and a Powershot G3. My picture contributions include macro shots and panoramic pictures (assisted by a Nodal Ninja panoramic adapter and assembled using Hugin and Panotools). My other field of contributions involves JavaScript extensions, such as the Commons:WikiMiniAtlas.

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English: I am an Officer of the Portuguese Navy, now teaching Cartographic Sciences in the university and doing research on the geometry of old nautical charts. My regular contributions with photos and illustrations to Commons started in 2006. Photography has been a hobby for a long time, though I’m relatively new to digital techniques. I enjoy photographing people as well as nature themes and macro photography. Like in other forms of art, interpretation of reality is an important component of Photography, through which we seek to recognize beauty and show it to others. That is true not only in artsy photos but also in more illustrative works. My first serious camera was a Canon FT, the last, a Nikon D80.

Português: Sou um Oficial da Marinha Portuguesa que ensina Ciências Cartográficas na universidade e faz investigação sobre a geometria das antigas cartas de marear. A minha contribuição regular para o Commons, sob a forma de fotos e ilustrações, começou em 2006. A Fotografia tem constituído um hobby desde há muito, embora as técnicas digitais sejam para mim uma relativa novidade. Gosto de fotografar pessoas e temas da Natureza, e também de fazer macro fotografia. Tal como noutras formas de arte, a interpretação da realidade é um componente importante da Fotografia, através da qual procuramos reconhecer a beleza e mostrá-la aos outros. Isso é verdade não só em fotografia artística mas também em trabalhos mais ilustrativos. A minha primeira máquina a sério foi uma Canon FT, a última, uma Nikon D80.

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I've been contributing to French Wikipedia and related projects since August 2005.
I love macrophotography, astronomy, nature, SF literature, free software and Linux.

My personal site: http://www.lucnix.be

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Body: Nikon Coolpix 5200 / Nikon FE / Nikormat FT3 / Nikon D300

Optical: Nikkor 50mm F1,4 AFD / Nikkor 85mm F1,8 AFD / Sigma 150mm F2,8 DG APO Macro EX / Sigma 10-20mm F4-5,6 DC EX / Sigma 17-70mm F2,8-4,5 DC Macro / TC converter X2 and X1,4 Sigma APO / Nikon Flash SB600

Astronomical refractor: Vixen 103mm F1000 / super polaris equatorial mount.

Since the end of 2005 I publish my image with GIMP.

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I have a M.Sc. in biology, but am currently studying to become a school teacher. I've been contributing to the danish Wikipedia and related projects since December 2002. I am an amateur photographer. I like to photograph nature (primarily animals) and whatever motives I pass, that I think might be useful on Wikipedia. Some of my best pictures are "lucky" snapshots. I also like the work in the "digital darkroom" editing and improving my pictures.

As a contributor to the danish Wikipedia it is natural to submit my pictures on Commons hoping my pictures are of use in other Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects. Indeed this is a major motivation factor for me to go on photo safari.

My equipment includes: Canon EOS 400D / Canon EOS 300D / Canon EFS 18-55mm / Canon tele lens EF 75-300mm

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I'm a physicist by profession and I'm working in the field of information sciences. My main hobby is working on Free Software in the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution where I started the Debian-Med project. My second hobby is taking nature photos. I do this in my holidays exclusively and I'm a conservative photographer that sticks to using slides for his "real photos". As a consequence some of my uploaded images are not as good as the original slide would allow because the process of digitising was done automatically via Kodak Photo CD where not every single image gets the subtlety it would deserve. In case I will find some more time I might redo some scans manually but this is nothing that will happen soon.

• Bodies: Minolta Dynax 7 / Minolta Dynax 600 / Minolta 9000
• Lenses: 2,0/20; 2,8/100 Macro; 1,4/50; 1,4/28; 4/35-70; 4/70-210
• Support: Manfrotto 190B; Gitzo Monotreck

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I'm a Yr 12 high school student in Victoria, Australia. I live in the country and hence a lot of my photography is to do with nature.
I've been contributing to Wikipedia since August 2004, if you're incredibly bored one damp evening you can read a little spiel I wrote on my first wiki-bday. I started off in photography with an el cheapo Kodak LS633 which turned out to be very good in most respects except for a complete lack of any manual control! With a bit of creative use though it managed to produce a few decent pix.
I took quite a leap really in the camera hierachy when I got a Canon 20D back in April 2005. For a year or so afterwards I was very prolific, clocking up over a thousand photos. However with real life (ie schoolwork!) making more demands on my time my output somewhat dwindled, I think my total of date is slightly under 2000 photos. Check out this for a full list
Equipment: Canon 20D, Tamron 28-75 f/2.8, Canon 17-40 f/4L, Canon 85 f/1.8, Canon 70-200 f/2.8L, Sigma 150 macro f/2.8, Canon 580EX shoe flash, Canon TC-80N remote release, Slik Pro 700DX, 2x2GB 80x flash cards.

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I am a software engineer and photographer from the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania, USA. I've contributed to the English Wikipedia since June of 2003. I've been taking pictures since I got my first digital camera in 2004. I enjoy all types of photography, including architecture and landscapes, but find nature photography to be the most useful for Wikipedia articles. I'm passionate about photography. I enjoy taking beautiful images and making large prints. My favorite location to photograph is the wilderness of Alaska. My pictures have been published in a number of books, magazines, web sites, and other locations. I believe we should strive for the goals of the four freedoms.

Equipment: Nikon D50, Nikon Coolpix 8700, and Canon Powershot S3 IS.

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I am LucaG, a software engineer from the Milano area, Italy.
Despite the beautiful locations in my country, rich in historic sites and monuments as well as crowded fashion events, my favorite locations to photograph are deserts and very high plateaus.
I'm "on top of the world" when waiting, in silence and solitude, for the right light on wide open lands, short of breath because of a rarefied atmosphere but under the deep blue sky at an altitude above 4000m.

I go digital and I develop my RAW files with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop but I'm not a fan of digital over improving. I do prefer a grainy, slightly out-of-focus image with a great emotional appeal rather then a plastic, sharp, ice-cold image.
I've been contributing to Commons with my photographs since december 2006 when studying countries like Tibet, Bolivia and Lybia on Wikipedia I noticed a lack of landscape images on related pages.

My photo gear: Canon EOS 400D, Canon 10-22 mm, Canon 17-85 mm, Canon 70-200 mm, Canon 50 mm, Canon 420EX flash and the essential Manfrotto Carbon Fiber Tripod with Proball Quick Release Head.

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I am a Flemish marine biologist, currently working on the possible repercussions of man-made perturbations and contaminants on the marine ecosystem. I'm an amateur photographer, who started with a Canon AE1, back in the eighties. I've been contributing to Wikispecies, Commons and a dozen Wikipedias since September 2005. My biological background is very much reflected in the subject of my images.
My equipment includes: a Sony α 100, a Sony α 700, a Traveler DC8300, a Traveler DC6300 and an Axiocam MR for microphotography.

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