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My "real" Wikipedia home page is en:User:Jmabel. I check my user page on both the English Wikipedia and Commons relatively often; I can also be reached by the "Email this user" feature (which does require that you open an account and provide your own email address to Wikimedia Foundation; you don't have to enable the "Email this user" feature for your own account).
[edit] Licensing
Please note: I license my photos under GFDL when I put them up here. Some I also put under CC-BY 2.5. For other non-commercial uses (and many commercial uses), I'll almost always be willing to let you use my photos if I get an appropriate photo credit, but please contact me and ask.
[edit] Useful tool for monitor calibration
I find this very useful & recommend it highly. w:Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Is my monitor calibrated correctly?
[edit] Some of my photos
This is by no means comprehensive, but I believe it is representative. Some of these don't do too well this small, please click through to larger images on anything that interests you.
[edit] Bucharest

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Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse from inside...
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Bucharest Novotel under construction. The front of the building replicates the old National Theatre.
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Bucharest City Hall, seen from Cişmigiu Garden
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Art Museum, Memorial of Rebirth, Creţulescu Church
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Memorial of Rebirth, "The Crown"
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Figures at base of Memorial
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Curtea Sticleror. Click this for an interesting history.
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... and another, from the other side.
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Courtyard of Hanul Manuc...
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...of which I just can't resist...
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Trajan's Column (reproduced in plaster), Museum of Romanian History
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Inscription of Colţei Tower, Bucharest 1714. Museum of Romanian History
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National Theatre Bucharest
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Teens at La Motoare, terrace bar on the roof of the National Theatre
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Japonoiserie at Teatru de Revistă Constantin Tănase
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Memorial to a Belgian journalist killed in the '89 Revolution
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But so as not to end on a bummer…
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More wonderful Lipscani rooftops
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[edit] Opera House, Bucharest

[edit] Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
View from Piaţa Victoriei
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Note Moses on the left, with horns
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[edit] Barcelona
Famous umbrella sign on the Ramblas
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Anarchist-occupied theater, 1996
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[edit] Trujillo
[edit] Snoqualmie Moondance, 1992
I finally acquired a decent scanner in 2007, and have been uploading some of my old 35mm photos. These were taken at a festival just east of Snoqualmie Pass, Washington in 1992. These are all quite hi-res; more than on most, I recommend clicking through.
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Seattle Portable Outdoor Theater (S.P.O.T.)
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Seattle musician Darren Loucas
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"John the Freak" cooks...
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[edit] Seattle, Washington
View from the Alberg Terrace, University of Washington
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Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park
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St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
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St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
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…against U.S.-South Korea FTA
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Kite-flying at Golden Gardens; Shilshole Marina in background
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Paraglider practicing at Golden Gardens
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Fishermen's Terminal at sunset
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Hattie's Hat (bar in Ballard)
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The inevitable Space Needle shots...
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...but, I hope, more interesting than most.
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[edit] Registered Historic Places
One of my projects has been to photograph places in Seattle (and thereabouts) that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
A lovely old library in the Fremont neighborhood.
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Relief sculpture of a walrus adorning the Arctic Building
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Interior, Church of the Blessed Sacrament
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The D.A.R. building in the Harvard-Belmont Landmark District
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Broadway Performance Hall, a remnant of Broadway High School
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Terracotta, Eagles Auditorium
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Montlake Bridge (south tower)
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Ward House, certainly Seattle's oldest house, possibly its oldest building
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R-class sloop Pirate, a famous racing sloop, at the Center for Wooden Boats
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[edit] International District
Chinese chess (and Chinese kibbitzers)
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Coconuts at the Night Market
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Goldfish at the Night Market
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More lion dancers in a fireworks haze
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Just outside the ID, the Seattle Buddhist Church...
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...site of the Bon Odori in July
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[edit] Art galleries and artists' studios

Greg Kucera Gallery
Artist studio, 619 Western
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Rock/Dement Gallery, Toshiro-Kaplan Building
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Kate Protage in her studio, 619 Western
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[edit] Sand sculpture
Some much more informal art: sand sculpture at Sandfest in Westlake Park, August 2006.
[edit] Sunset over Shilshole
26 July 2006 from the deck of Ray's Café
[edit] Kubota garden
[edit] B. Marcus Priteca
Some buildings by architect B. Marcus Priteca.
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The former Coliseum Theater
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Langston Hughes Performing Art Center, formerly the Synagogue of Chevra Bikur Cholim
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Admiral Theater, West Seattle
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[edit] 1993 Seattle AIDS vigil
[edit] Dallas, Texas
[edit] Fort Worth, Texas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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[edit] Austin, Texas
[edit] Seattle and the Orient
I've been uploading page images (and extracted photographic images) of a rather remarkable 1900 booklet called Seattle and the Orient. Amazing stuff. (The "and the Orient" in the title is mostly a business pitch.)
The old King County Courthouse on Profanity Hill
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The Waltham Block: this now houses the Davidson Gallery and the Glasshouse
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The Terry-Denny Building (at that time The Northern Hotel), still there (on the west side of First just below Yesler)
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Looking west on James Street toward Pioneer Square; the two buildings in the foreground still survive, as does part of the second building from the right, and a few that can be seen in the distance (though, sadly, not the Seattle Hotel, second on left, or the Olympic Block, dead ahead).
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Railroad Avenue along the downtown waterfront (now Alaskan Way)
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Centennial Mill (flour mill at the foot of Yesler Way)
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Tinfoiling Rainier Beer bottles
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Inside the hull of a ship under construction in Moran Bros. shipyard
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[edit] Other old Seattle stuff
The Seattle Room at the Seattle Public Library is an another great resource. Among the many things I've found there are:
A 1905 Rainier Beer ad from a Polk's Directory
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An 1899 ad for Heckman & Hanson Shipbuilding Co.
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A 1904 map showing the route of the Duwamish River by Georgetown and South Park before it was straightened
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An 1893 map showing the old street names in what are now Wallingford and the University District
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