User:Jmabel

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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

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	Art Museum, Memorial of Rebirth, Creţulescu Church	Memorial of Rebirth, "The Crown"	Figures at base of Memorial
Statue of Iuliu Maniu	Stavropoleos Church	Sf. Treime, looking up	Curtea Sticleror. 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

[edit] Opera House, Bucharest

[edit] Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

View from Piaţa Victoriei
	Plates
"The house…	in the…	house"

Note Moses on the left, with horns			Windmill and water mill

[edit] Spain

[edit] Barcelona

Famous umbrella sign on the Ramblas

Anarchist-occupied theater, 1996

CGT headquarters

[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.

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

[edit] Seattle, Washington

View from the Alberg Terrace, University of Washington
Alki Beach	Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral	St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church	Picardo Farm	Picardo Farm
Alki Beach	"The Squirrels"
Westlake Mall	Brutalist fountain, Freeway Park	Protest action…	…against U.S.-South Korea FTA
Olympic Sculpture Park		Kite-flying at Golden Gardens; Shilshole Marina in background	Paraglider practicing at Golden Gardens
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.

[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.	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
Georgetown Steam Plant	Montlake Bridge (south tower)	Engine House No. 3	Ward House, certainly Seattle's oldest house, possibly its oldest building
R-class sloop Pirate, a famous racing sloop, at the Center for Wooden Boats

[edit] International District

Chinese chess (and Chinese kibbitzers)	Coconuts at the Night Market	Goldfish at the Night Market	Lion dance
More lion dancers in a fireworks haze	Historic Panama Hotel	Just outside the ID, the Seattle Buddhist Church...	...site of the Bon Odori in July

[edit] Art galleries and artists' studios

Greg Kucera Gallery

Artist studio, 619 Western

Rock/Dement Gallery, Toshiro-Kaplan Building

Kate Protage in her studio, 619 Western

[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.

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

[edit] 1993 Seattle AIDS vigil

[edit] Texas

[edit] Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek

[edit] Fort Worth, Texas

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Amon Carter Museum	Downtown

[edit] Austin, Texas

6th Street (1993)

[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	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