User: Rhododendrites
Long-time Wikimedian who decided, a few years ago, to try to take better pictures to contribute to Commons. I feel like I've learned a lot from this community, and continue to do so. Always welcome photography tips/constructive criticism.
Though I take pictures of lots of things, a few areas of concentration are the New York City area in general, protests, conventions (not so much in 2020), and birds (much more so in 2020). If you're in NYC (or coming to NYC) and want tips or to plan a photography outing, let me know. There are several Wikimedian photographers here.
My main camera is an Olympus OM-D E-M5 mark ii (micro four-thirds format). I like it, but don't know if I can recommend the format any longer. Olympus announced in 2020 that they plan to get out of the camera game. The future of its camera business seems unclear at the moment, possibly being transferred to another company, and Panasonic is the only other company making the gear (with some compatibility issues around the way they do their image stabilization). I hope it'll look up, but we'll see.
This is my main account for contributing to Wikimedia projects. From March-July 2021, I contracted with the Wikimedia Foundation, researching the impact of Suggested Edits on Commons. My WMF account is User:Rhododendrites (WMF), which is now inactive. Edits I make through this account are strictly as a volunteer.
Featured Pictures - the birds
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Image 1Apricot Mandarin duckling in Royal Lazienki Park
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Image 2House wren
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Image 3Male northern cardinal in Central Park
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Image 4White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park
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Image 5Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
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Image 6Green heron in Prospect Park
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Image 7Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
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Image 8Great blue heron on frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 9American coot in Prospect Park
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Image 10Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
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Image 11Great blue heron in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 12Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
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Image 13Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
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Image 14Eastern wood pewee in Central Park
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Image 15Female brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 16European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
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Image 17Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
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Image 18American robin
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Image 19Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
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Image 20Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 21Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 22Ruby-crowned kinglet in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 23Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
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Image 24Cedar waxwing in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 25Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
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Image 26Mute swan and cygnets on a duckweed-covered pond
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Image 27Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
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Image 28Golden-crowned kinglet
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Image 29Redhead in Central Park
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Image 30Baltimore oriole (immature/female) in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 31Purple martin in flight in Cape May, New Jersey
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Image 32Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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Image 33Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
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Image 34Red-necked phalarope at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 35Northern waterthrush in Central Park
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Image 36White ibis in Ocean City, New Jersey (I kind of prefer the uncropped version)
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Image 37Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
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Image 38Palm warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 39Cedar waxwing in pokeweed in Prospect Park
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Image 40Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Image 41Blue jay in Prospect Park
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Image 42Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
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Image 43Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
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Image 44Gray catbird in Central Park
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Image 45White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 46Pine siskin in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 47Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 48House sparrows in Central Park
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Image 49Female hooded merganser resting on the Central Park Reservoir
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Image 50Veery in the Central Park Ramble
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Image 51American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
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Image 52House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 53Red-tailed hawk, fearsome predator
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Image 54Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 55Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
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Image 56A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
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Image 57Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
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Image 58Juvenile American robin
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Image 59Snowy egret
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Image 60Male black-throated green warbler in Prospect Park
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Image 61Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park
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Image 62Northern cardinal female in Central Park
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Image 63Blackpoll warbler in a flowering dogwood tree in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 64Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 65Close-up of a white-throated sparrow in Central Park
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Image 66Gray catbird in Prospect Park
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Image 67Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 68Juvenile Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 69Semipalmated sandpiper at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 70Red-tailed hawk rescue
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Image 71Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park
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Image 72Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
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Image 73Great blue heron lurching its head back to swallow a brown watersnake in Green Cay Wetlands
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Image 74White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 75Female wood duck
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Image 76Field sparrow in Central Park
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Image 77Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 78Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
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Image 79Piping plover in Queens
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Image 80Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
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Image 81Mandarin duck drake in eclipse plumage in Royal Lazienki Park
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Image 82Chipping sparrow on a grave in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 83Ring-billed gull in Red Hook, Brooklyn
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Image 84First winter laughing gull in Riverhead, New York
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Image 85European starling in Central Park
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Image 86Piping plover chick in Queens
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Image 87Female northern cardinal in Central Park
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Image 88Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
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Image 89Bay-breasted warbler in Central Park
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Image 90Snowy egret in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 91Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
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Image 92Brown creeper about to be released at a bird banding station in the United States
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Image 93Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
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Image 94Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
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Image 95Gray catbird watching a hawk fly overhead in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Image 96American tree sparrow in Central Park
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Image 97Male yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 98Ovenbird in Prospect Park
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Image 99Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
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Image 100Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
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Image 101Gray catbird with a chokeberry in Prospect Park
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Image 102Black-capped chickadee eating seeds in Central Park
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Image 103Killdeer at the South Cape May Meadows
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Image 104Juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Prospect Park
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Image 105Immature mute swan in Prospect Park
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Image 106Immature herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Image 107Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 108Lesser yellowlegs at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 109Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
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Image 110Winter wren in Prospect Park
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Image 111Huge flock of gulls just after they were spooked by something during a horseshoe crab feeding frenzy in Cape May, New Jersey
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Image 112Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 113American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
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Image 114Male northern shoveler in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Image 115Immature cooper's hawk in Prospect Park
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Image 116A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
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Image 117Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Image 118American avocet
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Image 119Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
Featured Pictures - everything else
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Image 1Eldridge Street Synagogue
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Image 2Oculus
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Image 3California sea lion in La Jolla. My first experience seeing wild sea lions in person. It was ... loud. This one just looked downright majestic in the sun.
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Image 4Monarch butterfly caterpillar on butterfly weed
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Image 5Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
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Image 6Hell Gate Bridge, with a scow being towed along the Hell Gate section of the East River
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Image 7Monarch butterfly
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Image 8A cavapoo dog chasing a malipoo dog with a ball
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Image 9Frizzle sizzle
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Image 10Bigfin reef squid at Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Image 11Triq San Patrizju facing the Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
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Image 12Group photo of four pears
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Image 13Great golden digger wasp in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Image 14Lower Manhattan panorama
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Image 15Sasheer Zamata at a Time's Up event during the Tribeca Film Festival
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Image 16Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
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Image 17Salix catkins
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Image 18A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
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Image 19Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
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Image 20Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Image 21Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
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Image 22White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanut
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Image 23The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
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Image 24Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
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Image 25One World Trade Center through the Oculus
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Image 26Male elephant seal resting between fights in Ano Nuevo
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Image 27Immature male blue dasher
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Image 28Comme des Garcons at the Met
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Image 29Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
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Image 30Male eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Image 31Fulton Center skylight
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Image 32Sukkah at Congregation Emanu-El of New York
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Image 33Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken just after Stonewall Inn was designated part of a National Monument
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Image 34Two juvenile Nubian ibex
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Image 35Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
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Image 36An island (with ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fog
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Image 37Maroon Bells
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Image 38Pond sliders in Prospect Park
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Image 39Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
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Image 40City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
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Image 41Daubeny's water lily
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Image 42Algal mat in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Image 43Florence seen from the Duomo terrace
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Image 44Red squirrel in Lazienki Park
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Image 45Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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Image 46Common buckeye in Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis
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Image 47Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
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Image 48Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
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Image 49Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
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Image 50Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
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Image 51Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
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Image 52Boston Public Garden
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Image 53Eastern amberwing
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Image 54Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
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Image 55Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Image 56Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
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Image 57Moss-covered oak trees in the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
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Image 58American lady butterfly on a purple coneflower
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Image 59Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
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Image 60Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Providence. It's been stuck in the open position for 50 years. A local landmark, but slated for destruction soon.
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Image 61Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
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Image 62Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
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Image 63Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
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Image 64Jun Takahashi dress for Undercover in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met
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Image 65Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
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Image 66Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
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Image 67The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
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Image 68Stata Center at MIT
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Image 69Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
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Image 70Sarracenia leucophylla
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Image 71Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
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Image 72Chinese mantis ootheca in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Image 73Juvenile Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
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Image 74Makhtesh Ramon
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Image 75Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
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Image 76Ship in the San Francisco Bay fog. Got lucky with the dramatic fog on this one, which opened up just enough to frame the ship in light.
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Image 77Alexander Hamilton Custom House Collector's Room ceiling. Had to be a bit obnoxious to get this one, setting up a little tripod in the center of a crowded room and actually getting down on the floor to frame it. Who doesn't like a nice ornate ceiling with a nautical theme, though?
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Image 78Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
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Image 79Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
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Image 80A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
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Image 81Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
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Image 82Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
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Image 83Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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Image 84Glass blower. This was moments before he accidentally dropped it. Heartbreaking (and vasebreaking). Talented folks here, though, and I actually went back a while later and took a class. Got a piece of lit up frozen spaghetti to prove it.
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Image 85Bluebells in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Image 86California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
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Image 87A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
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Image 88Composite of a clementine with/without peel
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Image 89Bee balm seedhead
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Image 90Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
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Image 91Crocuses in early spring.
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Image 92Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Image 93Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
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Image 94Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
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Image 95Redbeckia occidentalis
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Image 96White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel perched on a tree in Brooklyn
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Image 97Eastern cicada killer perched on a black-eyed susan
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Image 98Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
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Image 99Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
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Image 100TWA Hotel
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Image 101Razor clamshell dress from spring/summer 2001, in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met
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Image 102Eastern gray squirrel in Central Park
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Image 103Coleus
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Image 104Raccoon in Central Park
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Image 105Magnolia x veitchii bud
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Image 106Monarch butterfly
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Image 107Hell Gate Bridge
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Image 108Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
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