User:Jmabel

"Civil Law", sculpture by Alonzo Victor Lewis, 1922. North face of Miller Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

El Vez

Probably my earliest photo that I've uploaded to Commons. I took this in 1966 at the age of 11.

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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).

As of 25 November 2009, I am an administrator on Commons. However, I try not to spend a lot of my time here on administrative tasks.

Licensing [edit]

Please note: My photos here are licensed under GFDL and CC-BY-SA 3.0 Some (mostly photos of people) are also licensed under CC-BY-2.5. For other non-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.

Photo used in Joyce Anastasia's Seeding Change

If your use is commercial and does not conform to GFDL, CC-BY-SA 3.0 (or other license I have explicitly granted), please do contact me, and I'm sure we can reach a reasonable licensing agreement suitable to your needs.

Among the places my photographs have appeared are the book National Geographic Traveler Romania, Clipper Vacations Magazine, Architectural Glass Concepts (AGC magazine), Haaretz, Salon.com, the film Seeding Change: Participant Persectives (2008), directed by Joyce Anastasia, and as the front cover of a University of Washington course catalog. Apparently, one of my photos is also going to appear in a 2011 French book on fire boats of the world. And I quite like this music video, which sets its mood with my photo of Wesleyan University's Russell House at night.

Suzzallo Library Graduate Reading Room (University of Washington). Image used by The Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Forum newsletter in an article on the renovation of the building.
A woman sculpting sand in Seattle's Westlake Park. Image used in a Clipper Vacations Magazine article on Seattle tourism.
The Nippon Kan stage curtain, now in the Wing Luke Museum. Used by Clipper Vacations Magazine.
An old sign on Seattle's Delmar Building / State Hotel. Used by Clipper Vacations Magazine.
Panorama of Gas Works Park and Lake Union. This image appears in Seattle Geographies and Geographers (University of Washington Press, 2010)...
... as does this one of Picardo Farm, the original "P-Patch".
A cropped version of this image was used on the cover of the 2010-2011 University of Washington School of Public Health Academic Programs Catalog. The school is located just to the left of the area in the photo.
Aberdeen, Washington and the Wishkah River. This image was added November 2011 to the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica
To be used to illustrate an essay by Margaret Crawford in the catalog for the exhibition "A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California" at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).
MOHAI - SST model.jpg

Used in Confessions of a Generalist (book, 2012) by Niels Diffrient, to illustrate the similarity of Boeing and Lockheed SST designs.

Useful tool for monitor calibration [edit]

I find this very useful & recommend it highly. w:Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Is my monitor calibrated correctly?

Note on uploading video from Flickr [edit]

Uploading video from Flickr is much trickier than uploading still photos. Basically, this is the best I've been able to work out. Credit to User:Sanandros for hints.

Use Firefox extension DownloadHelper to download from Flickr to your own system.
Use Firefox extension FireFogg to convert this to Theora-Ogg Vorbis (.ogv) format.
Upload that in the normal manner. I find it useful to use http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload to build a preview draft of the file page but not to actually save that page.
- I suppose that alternatively one could save that page and then use "upload new version".
Tag the image with {{flickrreview}}. If you are an admin or have review privileges, you can fill out that template.

Some of my photos [edit]

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.

Bucharest [edit]

The airport
Lipscani rooftops
Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse from inside...
... and out
CEC
Cercul Militar
Bucharest Novotel under construction. The front of the building replicates the old National Theatre.
Str. George Vraca
Bucharest City Hall, seen from Cişmigiu Garden
Stavropoleos Church
Sf. Treime, looking up
Sticlarilor (Glassmakers' Court). Click this for an interesting history.
Here's another view.
... and another, from the other side.
Courtyard of Hanul Manuc...
...of which I just can't resist...
...showing you...
... several views
Trajan's Column (reproduced in plaster), Museum of Romanian History
Inscription of Colţei Tower, Bucharest 1714. Museum of Romanian History
National Theatre Bucharest
Teens at La Motoare, terrace bar on the roof of the National Theatre
Japonoiserie at Teatru de Revistă Constantin Tănase
Piaţa Amzei (2001)
Piaţa Amzei (2001)
Piaţa Obor
Piaţa Obor
Insta-ruin: a "hunger circus"
Memorial to a Belgian journalist killed in the '89 Revolution
But so as not to end on a bummer…
More wonderful Lipscani rooftops

Opera House, Bucharest [edit]

Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest [edit]

View from Piaţa Victoriei
Plates
"The house…
in the…
house"
Note Moses on the left, with horns
Windmill and water mill

Spain [edit]

Barcelona [edit]

Famous umbrella sign on the Ramblas
Anarchist-occupied theater, 1996
CGT headquarters

Trujillo [edit]

Budapest [edit]

Gellert Baths
On Castle Hill
At Ruszwurm Cafe
A public fountain

Snoqualmie Moondance, 1992 [edit]

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.

Me, back then.
Seattle Portable Outdoor Theater (S.P.O.T.)
Seattle musician Darren Loucas
Boy with a hammock
"John the Freak" cooks...
...and Taren serves
Meditation
Dancing
The real Dalton Vrij

Seattle, Washington [edit]

View from the Alberg Terrace, University of Washington.

Alki Beach

Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park

Duwamish Waterway, looking upstream toward South Park.

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint James Cathedral (RC)
Picardo Farm
Picardo Farm
Alki Beach
"The Squirrels"
Westlake Mall
Brutalist fountain, Freeway Park...
...which is a popular site for parkour
The old Battelle campus in Laurelhurst
Protest action…
…against U.S.-South Korea FTA
Olympic Sculpture Park
Center for Wooden Boats
Sunset in Georgetown
Fishermen's Terminal at sunset
Hattie's Hat (bar in Ballard)
The inevitable Space Needle shots...
...but, I hope, more interesting than most.
Steam plant at night.
Belts for sale at the Mediterranean Fantasy Festival
An old seal of the city, no longer used.

Golden Gardens Park [edit]

Golden Gardens Park at sunset.

Burning Christmas trees on New Years at Golden Gardens
Kite-flying; Shilshole Marina in background
Paraglider practicing
Flautist
Silhouettes on a sunny winter afternoon
Beachcombing with a metal detector
Looking through the old bathhouse to the water
American widgeons, and a male mallard at left

Registered Historic Places [edit]

One of my projects has been to photograph places in Seattle (and thereabouts) that are on the National Register of Historic Places.

(The image above is the frieze of Seattle's Great Northern Building.)

A lovely old library in the Fremont neighborhood.
Relief sculpture of a walrus adorning the Arctic Building
Interior, Church of the Blessed Sacrament
The D.A.R. building in the Harvard-Belmont Landmark District
Panama Hotel sign
College Inn
Broadway Performance Hall, a remnant of Broadway High School
Terracotta, Eagles Auditorium
Montlake Bridge (south tower)
Engine House No. 3
Ward House, widely considered Seattle's oldest house (although there are other contenders, depending on the criteria)
R-class sloop Pirate, a famous racing sloop, at the Center for Wooden Boats
Stimson-Green Mansion, home of Joshua Green
Oddfellows Temple

Georgetown PowerPlant Museum [edit]

Exterior (from the west)
This one is from on the grounds (south face)
Upper hall
Gauges
I have no idea what this particular brass object does, but it's very cool-looking

Other landmarks [edit]

... and some official city landmarks that don't have NRHP status

The Querio House in South Park
Kinnear Park on Queen Anne Hill
The Seward Park Inn
Franklin High School
A gargoyle from Bethany Presbyterian Church on Queen Anne Hill

Gas Works Park [edit]

Gas Works Park and a view across Lake Union to Downtown.

International District [edit]

Stage curtain of the former Nippon Kan Theatre
Chinese chess (and Chinese kibbitzers)
Coconuts at the Night Market
Goldfish at the Night Market
Lion dance
More lion dancers in a fireworks haze
Just outside the ID, the Seattle Buddhist Church...
...site of the Bon Odori in July
An Asian-American variant on the Seafair Pirates

Art galleries and artists' studios [edit]

Greg Kucera Gallery

Artist studio, 619 Western
Rock/Dement Gallery, Toshiro-Kaplan Building
Kate Protage in her studio, 619 Western

Sand sculpture [edit]

Some much more informal art: sand sculpture at Sandfest in Westlake Park, August 2006.

Kubota Garden [edit]

B. Marcus Priteca [edit]

Some buildings by architect B. Marcus Priteca.

The Paramount Theater
(Here's the interior)
The former Coliseum Theater
Langston Hughes Performing Art Center, formerly the Synagogue of Chevra Bikur Cholim
Admiral Theater, West Seattle
Former Crystal Pool (now Cristalla)
Another Crystal Pool detail

Comet Lodge Cemetery [edit]

1993 Seattle AIDS vigil [edit]

Art [edit]

Detail, James Everett Stuart, "Mount Rainier from Elliot's Bay", oil on canvas, 1889
One of the Ancient Chinese "military guardians" on the Art Ladder of the Seattle Art Museum
An unusual Makah piece: a basketry-covered lightbulb

Oh, and one more panorama [edit]

I really like this one. There's a tiny flaw at lower right, but otherwise seamless.

Looking east from Ballard Bridge. Seattle Maritime Academy at left.

Tacoma, Washington [edit]

Panoramics of two schools, each stitched together with HugIn.

The private Annie Wright School

The public Stadium High School (at right), originally built as a hotel

Wright Park
Detail of old Elks (BPOE) building
Ranko's Rexall (detail)
First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church (detail)
First Presbyterian Church (detail)
House at 202 N Tacoma Ave
Outer coffin of the "Tacoma mummy", Ankh-Wennefer
Inner coffin of the "Tacoma mummy", Ankh-Wennefer

Elsewhere in Washington [edit]

Snoqualmie Falls panorama

Lehrman Cameron Studio wanted to use the photo above as part of the new interpretive panel on the observation platform at the Falls (13 January 2010), but now (12 March 2010) I gather that the client thought differently; Lehrman Cameron still hope to work it in somewhere in the park.

A roughly 220° view of the Swinomish Channel, near downtown La Conner. Pier 7 can be seen at right.

Upper Falls, Tumwater, Washington. A roughly 160° panorama.

Ferries at Vashon
View from Pioneer Park, Omak, Washington
Everett Station, Everett, Washington
201 S. Blakeley St, Monroe, Washington
Boys and Girls Club, Edmonds, Washington
3427 Norton Street, Everett, Washington
Forest Park Swim Center, Everett, Washington
Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Washington
North Bend Community Church, North Bend, Washington
Camp Waskowitz, a former Forest Service Civilian Conservation Corps camp as Camp North Bend 1935–1942
The pseudo-Bavarian architecture of Leavenworth, Washington
Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano, Washington
Maritime Museum, Westport, Washington
Inside the Gray's Harbor Lighthouse, near Westport, Washington
Gorge Powerhouse, Newhalem, Washington

San Francisco [edit]

360° panorama of Civic Center, San Francisco.

Texas [edit]

Dallas, Texas [edit]

Turtle Creek

Wilson Building
Wilson Building detail
Post Office and Court House
First Baptist Church
West end skyline
Controls, McKinney Avenue Transit Authority trolley
Seated Daoist/Taoist deity (and fountain) outdoor court of Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art
Eastern Zhou Dynasty funerary bronzes , Crow Collection
Japanese snuff bottles, circa 1900, Crow Collection
Detail, sandalwood architectural bracket depicting Tipu Sultan of Mysore (late 18th century), Crow Collection

Fort Worth, Texas [edit]

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Amon Carter Museum
Downtown

Austin, Texas [edit]

6th Street (1993)

Connecticut [edit]

Seymour Fire Department Citizen Engine Co No. 2 - detail
Belkin Block, Seymour, CT
Kerite Company, Seymour, CT
Kerite Company, Seymour, CT
Kerite Company, Seymour, CT
Canaan Union Station, North Canaan, CT
Canaan Union Station, North Canaan, CT
Collin's Diner, North Canaan, CT
Collin's Diner, North Canaan, CT
First Congregational Church of Kent, Kent, CT
St. Andrew's (Episcopal), Kent, CT
St. Andrew's churchyard, Kent, CT
West Cornwall Covered Bridge, West Cornwall, CT
West Cornwall Covered Bridge, West Cornwall, CT
Looking out from the West Cornwall Covered Bridge, West Cornwall, CT to the Housatonic River

Meriden [edit]

Soldiers Monument and City Hall
Soldiers Monument (detail)
Former high school, now Board of Education building
Former high school (detail)
Masonic Lodge
The former Curtis Memorial Library, now Augusta Curtis Cultural Center
St. Andrew's Church (Episcopal)
St. Paul's Church (Universalist)
St. Paul's (detail)
Former All Saints (Episcopal), now Rock of Salvation (interdenominational)
St. Joseph's (R.C.)
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (R.C.)
Temple B'nai Abraham
Former mansion, later funeral home, now Masjid al Rawdah mosque

Middletown [edit]

Connecticut River in flood, 1977
Entrance to Middlesex Theater more or less abandoned 1977...
...later restored as Tuscany Grill
Municipal Building
Central Fire Station
Masonic Temple Building, near South Green (Union Park)
South Congregational Church, near South Green
Church of the Holy Trinity (Episcopal)
Saint John's Roman Catholic Church
Russell Chapel, Indian Hill Cemetery
Sanseer Mill
Wilcox Crittenden, Mill A
Wilcox Crittenden, Mills B and A
Wilcox Crittenden, Mill C
144 Broad St, former rectory of Holy Trinity, Dean Acheson's boyhood home
186 S. Main Street, my home circa 1976 (technically, I lived at #184, the upstairs, which had a separate entrance at the time), photographed 2012
49 & 55 Crescent Street

Wesleyan University [edit]

Russell House
Center for African American Studies and Malcolm X House
Davison Health Center (Duane Barnes House)
Davison Art Center (Richard Alsop IV House)
318 High Street: the former Edward Augustus Russell House, later ΚΝΚ fraternity, now University Relations
287 High Street
Anthropology Department (281 High Street), 287 High Street, and Davison Art Center
Romance Languages and Literatures Department (300 High Street)
Downey House
College of the Environment, 284 High Street
ΔΚΕ
Fisk Hall
ΨΥ
President's House
Center for the Americas, built in 1834 as a home for university president Wilbur Fisk
Office of Public Safety (208 High Street)
Eclectic (before 1970, The Eclectic Society of ΦΝΘ)
University Organizing Center (190 High Street)
ΑΔΦ
200 Church St, the former ΧΨ
ΒΘΠ
The former Commons Club, now Bayit (Jewish house), 157 Church Street
Religion Department (171 Church Street)
Typical of the edges of the Wesleyan campus: from left to right: Earth House, 159 High Street, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA; 163 High Street, Russian House; 167 High Street, Office of Community Service and Volunteerism (OCS) and in the same building 169 High Street, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL).
156 High Street, the former ΔΤΔ
The Butterfield Colleges
College Row from near its north end
Judd Hall
Patricelli '92 Theater, originally a library (Rich Hall)
Memorial Chapel
Memorial Chapel, detail
Memorial Chapel, interior
South College (president's office)
North College
41 Wyllys Avenue (former squash courts, now College of Letters)
Usdan Center from the Wyllys Avenue side
Usdan Center from the Andrus Field side
Usdan Center interior
Exley Science Center
Allbritton Center, previously Scott Lab, Davenport Student Center
Harriman Hall (Public Affairs Center)
Shanklin Lab, seen from the Smith Reading Room of Olin Library
Shanklin Lab
Olin Library, Harriman Hall (Public Affairs Center), Allbritton Center (originally Scott Lab)
Reading room, Olin Library. One of the 1938 exterior walls of the library forms a wall of this 1986 room.
Panoramic view of Olin Library lobby
Clark Hall
Panoramic view of Andrus Field
Baseball on Andrus Field; Denison Terrace in foreground
Freeman Athletic Center
Archeology Lab, 160 Cross Street
Fauver dorms
Van Vleck Observatory
Fayerwether Building
Skull and Serpent: "The Tomb"
Skull and Serpent: "The Tomb" (detail)
Buddhist House (former home of Wesleyan University Press)
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Center for the Arts
202 Washington Street
Center for the Humanities

New York City [edit]

Easter Parade, 1995
Easter Parade, 1995
Washington Square, 2012
The Caffe Reggio on MacDougall Street, founded 1927

Vancouver, BC [edit]

Detail of Le Magasin, Gastown
Sun Yat-Sen Park, Chinatown
Chinatown
Market, Chinatown
Highrise apartment buildings
Convention Center
Law courts
Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Inside Christ Church Cathedral
The Vogue, Granville Street
The Orpheum, Granville Street
Movieland Arcade, Granville Street
False Creek from Granville Street Bridge
Inlet of False Creek near Granville Island
Candy at Granville Island Public Market

Seattle and the Orient [edit]

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
The Waltham Block: this now houses the Davidson Gallery and the Glasshouse
The Terry-Denny Building (at that time The Northern Hotel), still there (on the west side of First just below Yesler)
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).
Railroad Avenue along the downtown waterfront (now Alaskan Way)
Centennial Mill (flour mill at the foot of Yesler Way)
Tinfoiling Rainier Beer bottles
Inside the hull of a ship under construction in Moran Bros. shipyard

Other old Seattle stuff [edit]

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...
... but I think this one from The Argus Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition special issue (1909) is even more fun.
An 1899 ad for Heckman & Hanson Shipbuilding Co.
A 1904 map showing the route of the Duwamish River by Georgetown and South Park before it was straightened
An 1893 map showing the old street names in what are now Wallingford and the University District
Elements of this 1912 photo from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
... were photo-collaged (part of it reversed) and hand-colored on the cover of this 1915 book.
Seattle's first (horesdrawn) street car at Occidental Avenue and Yesler Way, about 1884. The view is across Pioneer Square. The building in the background stood on the present site of the Mutual Life Building at First Avenue and Yesler Way. The building on the right was the Occidental Hotel, destroyed in the Great Fire (1889), replaced by the and the Seattle Hotel (which was demolished in 1961 and replaced by the "Sinking Ship" car park.
The SS Tacoma under construction, one of the fastest steamers in the Puget Sound mosquito fleet

Olaf E. Caskin [edit]

Looking through the 1909 Tyee (University of Washington yearbook), I came across some remarkably good cartoons and drawings by a man named Olaf E. Caskin, who I gather remained in Seattle and worked mainly as a commercial lithographer. I've uploaded a number of them in Category:Olaf E. Caskin illustrations in 1909 Tyee. Here are a few of the best. And remember, this is 1909: years before Will Eisner.

And some people [edit]

Roberto Maestas, founder of El Centro de la Raza
Aaron Dixon, Black Panther and Green politician
Ron Johnson, Black Panther
Music critic and music historian Gillian Gaar
L. A. Times (now NPR) music and culture critic Ann Powers
Diane Warren, queen of the power ballad.
Author Darryl Ponicsan
Music critic Robert Christgau
Wendy Fonarow, "the Indie Professor"
John Rockwell of the New York Times
Singer and actress Asha Puthli
David Thomas of Pere Ubu
Author and sometime politician Grant Cogswell
Musician and activist Krist Novoselic
Artis the Spoonman
Author and music critic Greil Marcus
Author Nick Hornby
Actor Charles Canada
David Ritz, king of the "as told to" biography
Music producer and musician Steve Fisk
Sculptor/musician/composer Trimpin
Composer and stage director Heiner Goebbels
Vivian McPeak, Executive Director of Seattle Hempfest
Seattle writer Clark Humphrey
Lawyer and activist Robert Meeropol
American-Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg
Dutch actress and film director Monique van de Ven
Pakistani film director Mehreen Jabbar
Washington State governor Mike Lowry
U.S. Senator Patty Murray
King County executive Dow Constantine
Congressman Jim McDermott
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn
Jay Inslee, now governor of Washington State
Seattle City Council member Bruce Harrell
Leonard Garfield, executive director of MOHAI
Author William Least Heat-Moon
Rob Morgan of The Squirrels
Nona Hendryx of Labelle
Musician and music producer Al Kooper
Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger
Singer-songwriter Sarah Dougher
David Lowery, probably best known from the band Camper Van Beethoven
Bharata natyam dancer Chitra Visweswaran
El Vez …
… and his onetime bandmate Phranc
Drummer Mark Pickerel
Shockabilly bassist and singer Brandy Battery
Singer, songwriter and dancer Janelle Monáe
Film director Kathryn Bigelow
Singer, songwriter & producer Joe Henry
Funk guitarist, music producer, etc. Nile Rodgers
Former Black Panther Jamal Joseph
Australian novelist, musician, etc. Peter Doyle
Political analyst, peace activist, and former Israeli diplomant Daniel Levy
Performance artist Neal Medlyn
Musician Calvin Johnson
Musician David Bazan of Pedro the Lion
Hindustani vocalist Raghunandan Panshikar
Seattle blues singer Patti Allen
Portland, Oregon R&B singer Duffy Bishop
Cuban-born jazz percussionist Francisco Mela
Musician Hutch Harris of The Thermals
Colombian musician Andrea Echeverri
Jazz saxophonist Gary Bartz
Founding riot grrrl Allison Wolfe
Chuck D of Public Enemy …
… and his wife, Gaye Theresa Johnson
Cheetah Chrome
Peter Buck of R.E.M.
Singer-songwriter Ruthann Friedman, best known for "Windy"
Sportswriter Dave Zirin
1968 Olympic Medalist John Carlos
Phil Austin of the Firesign Theatre
David Ossman of the Firesign Theatre
Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre
Filmmaker, book editor, and cultural event producer Jodi Wille
Quebecois screenwriter and film director André Forcier
Merrilee Rush
Ustad Aashish Khan
Children's author Peter Lerangis
Children's author Kevin Emerson
Children's author Lisa McMann