User:Durova
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[edit] Landmark images
At this page I've been assembling a collection of important and potentially featurable images. Some just need an artifact cleanup, others need better captioning or a larger version downloaded. Feel free to pitch in!
Featured images promoted through this effort:
 "Migrant mother" by Dorothea Lange |
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 Locomotive roundhouse - Chicago, 1942. |
 Douglas MacArthur lands at Leyte, 1944. |
 1905 image of coffee grinding. |
 Carpenter, 1942. |
 San Francisco, 1851. |
 Red blood cells. |
 Waldenburg, 1945. |
 USS Arizona survivor. |
 Rust mite. |
 Bridge construction. |
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 Spinning wheel. |
 September 15, 2001 |
 Leonardo da Vinci |
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 Submarine design by Robert Fulton, 1806 |
 Land sale in Nebraska and Iowa, 1872 |
 Typhoid vaccination, 1942 |
 Woman from Ramallah, c. 1898-1914 |
 Ursa Major |
 A print by Currier and Ives |
 The Great Wave off Kanagawa |
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 Brooklyn, 1879 |
 Layla and Majnun |
 Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba, World War I |
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[edit] A few highlights
Categories only tell half the story, so here are a few highlights from my contributions.
[edit] San Diego Wildfires of 2007
I'd had a Commons account for a year before this disaster. When I aided the relief effort this was obviously newsworthy so I documented some of the events to release under free license. Started contributing more regularly from then on.
 This was the first shot I took during the fires. The dark patches in the sky aren't clouds; they're smoke from two megafires. At the time when I shot this there was a serious possibility I might get evacuated. I had a week's worth of food and water in the car. |
 It was heartwarming to see how much people donated to help their neighbors and how well organized the relief effort was. |
 Balloon artists and donated toys were just two of the things that kept children calm at the relief center. That created an atmosphere of normality and made things much easier on the parents. |
 Aftermath of the fires: a spectacular sunset caused by smoke particles suspended in the air more than a week afterward. The stench in the air made me ill after a visit to the fire zone, though. |
 Not the best image photographically, but the most poignant. |
[edit] Balboa Park Museums
Some of the exhibitions prohibit camera use so I've been limited in what I can upload.
The Mexican border village of Mata Ortiz has a fantastic local pottery tradition. Regional museums highlight some of it. A fine opportunity for collectors, I guess, because a lot of the best work is still affordable.
 Here's a shot of the museum complex after the air returned to normal. |
 Mata Ortiz pottery. If I get a few more paper-and-ink sources I may start Wikipedia articles for this pottery and its leading artists. |
 Another Wikipedia.en article waiting to be written: the Kumeyaai people don't have their own page yet. |
[edit] My crafts
I used to be shy about uploading these, but copyright considerations tipped the balance. A copyright attaches to original craft designs so I can place my own designs under any license. I wouldn't want to affect some professional artisan's livelihood.
 Paper mache, decoupage, and crochet all in a single shot. The busy background is more crochet. |
 This beaded lace choker got onto the main page of Wikipedia.en for a few hours in "Did you know". WikiProject Textile Arts is an underdeveloped area that needs a lot of help. |
 One of the advantages of photographing one's own work is the opportunity to document the construction process. This is final stage assembly on a queen size bedspread I've been making for half a year. |
 A sockpuppet I made for a little girl. Couldn't resist the temptation to add it to Commons. |
 For an introductory crochet module on Wikibooks. |
[edit] National archives
Please add national archives links here. I'd like to create a central listing.
