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Commons:Meet our photographers
- See also: Commons:Meet our illustrators
Like the other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Commons is entirely created by volunteers. It succeeds because people all around the world recognise the benefits of using open content licenses to make their work freely available to others.
Our volunteers have varying skills and abilities. This page showcases a selection of the highly skilled photographers who choose to use open content licenses and donate their work to the Wikimedia Commons. Each photographer on this page has contributed at least 10 of our Featured Pictures.
We invite people interested in releasing their work under open content licenses to read our First steps guide, Licensing policy and Project scope.
- 1 Alain Carpentier (Acarpentier)
- 2 Joaquim Alves Gaspar
- 3 AngMoKio
- 4 archaeodontosaurus
- 5 Bijay chaurasia
- 6 Benh Lieu Song
- 7 Benjamin
- 8 Berthold Werner
- 9 Böhringer Friedrich (Fred)
- 10 Charles Sharp (Charlesjsharp)
- 11 Christian Mehlführer
- 12 Christian Ferrer
- 13 Code
- 14 Thomas Bresson
- 15 Chris Woodrich (Crisco 1492)
- 16 Der Wolf im Wald
- 17 David Iliff (Diliff)
- 18 Daniel L. Lu (dllu)
- 19 Daniel Schwen
- 20 Frank Schulenburg
- 21 George Chernilevsky
- 22 Georgios Giannopoulos (Ggia)
- 23 Gideon Pisanty (Gidip)
- 24 Godot13 (Andrew Shiva)
- 25 Holleday / H. Krisp
- 26 Ianaré Sévi
- 27 Ikiwaner
- 28 Jeevan Jose
- 29 Johann Jaritz
- 30 Joe Ravi
- 31 Julian Herzog
- 32 kallerna
- 33 Tony Jin (King of Hearts)
- 34 Laitche
- 35 Luca Galuzzi
- 36 Luc Viatour
- 37 Richard Bartz aka Makro Freak
- 38 Malene Thyssen
- 39 Martin Falbisoner
- 40 Michael Maggs
- 41 Marc Ryckaert (MJJR)
- 42 Muhammad Mahdi Karim
- 43 Nick Hobgood
- 44 JJ Harrison
- 45 PierreSelim
- 46 Poco a poco (Diego Delso)
- 47 Michal Klajban
- 48 PumpkinSky
- 49 Quartl
- 50 Rama
- 51 Derek Ramsey
- 52 Simon Koopmann
- 53 Taxiarchos228 (Wladyslaw)
- 54 Andreas Tille
- 55 Tomas Castelazo
- 56 Tournasol7 (Krzysztof Golik)
- 57 Tuxyso
- 58 Simo Räsänen (Ximonic)
- 59 Dietmar Rabich
- 60 Yann Forget
- 61 Masaki Ikeda (池田正樹)
- 62 Toby Hudson
Alain Carpentier (Acarpentier)
My name is Alain Carpentier and I live in the province of Quebec, in Canada. I've worked for 8 years for an Internet provider and software development. I am currently vice president of technology of a B2B and E-commerce company. For a number of years, I had no hobby but work. Then I discovered photography and it has become my passion.
I've started contributing to Commons in September 2007 and have accumulated 10 promoted featured pictures. Hope to provide more in the future.
Je contribue a Commons depuis septembre 2007 et j'ai accumulé jusqu'à maintenant 10 "featured pictures". J'espère continuer à en apporter encore plus dans le futur.
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Joaquim Alves Gaspar
English: My regular contributions with photos and illustrations to Commons started in 2006. Photography has been a hobby for a long time, though I'm relatively new to digital techniques. I enjoy photographing people as well as nature themes and macro photography. Like in other forms of art, interpretation of reality is an important component of Photography, through which we seek to recognize beauty and show it to others. That is true not only in artsy photos but also in more illustrative works. My first serious camera was a Canon FT, the last, a Nikon D800E.
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I was born in 1978 and live in Germany. I started contributing to the German Wikipedia in 2004. Two years later, in 2006, I discovered Commons and started to contribute the first photos.
I practise photography as a hobby for several years now and it still keeps providing me constantly with new challenges. I enjoy photographing moving objects (mostly cars) same as cities, humans, landscapes, nature and animals. Photography really is a versatile hobby and that is also why I enjoy it so much. Besides that I love to travel, which fits very well to my photography hobby.
你好。我是宏茂侨。我是德国人。我住在德国的南部。我喜欢亚洲。我学了一年的汉语。我的汉语不好。 :-)
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Body: Nikon D5 and Nikon D850
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Bijay chaurasia
Namaste, My name is Bijay Chaurasia. I was born and brought in Rajbiraj which lies in the eastern part of Nepal. I love to travel and take photographs. I am working as a Travel Photographer for a trekking agency in Nepal. I have been contributing in the Wikipedia and its sister project since 2014, especially in Maithili, Nepali and Wikimedia Commons.
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Benh Lieu Song
I'm a 29 years old programmer living in Marne-la-Vallée, in the suburbs of Paris. I started photography with an Olympus D40-Z compact camera and later got into panoramas. I realised how far we can go after I came across a POD showing a panorama of Sydney harbour on english Wikipedia. I decided I could try to do the same and that instead of keeping my pictures for myself, I could give them to Wikipedia which is so useful to me.
I shoot mainly landscape panoramas, with a preference for night architecture shots.
I use a Canon EOS 400D most of the time with an EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 and a Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 lenses, and am very pleased with the results. I use and try to promote free softwares for post processing. They include Gimp, Hugin, Enblend, Enfuse and ImageMagick.
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I am studying Computer Science at Latrobe University, I've been contributing my images to the articles on the English Wikipedia for a few years. The majority of my photos are of wildlife local to my area and I particularly photographing birds, stitching panoramas and editing/enhancing my pictures in Photoshop - the "digital darkroom".
My equipment includes: A Panasonic FZ-30 Lens: 7.4-88.8mm (35-420mm 35mm equivalent) ~ Raynox macro conversion attachment ~ Software: Photoshop CS3
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Berthold Werner
Ich wurde 1957 geboren, lebe in Trier und arbeite in der IT-Abteilung eines großen deutschen Unternehmens.
Zur Fotografie kam ich 1976, damals mit einer Revueflex 1000s, die mir 20 Jahre gute Dienste geleistet hat. Meine ersten Versuche mit einer Digitalkamera unternahm ich mit einer Kodak DX 6490 die aber auf Dauer meine Qualitätsansprüche nicht befriedigen konnte. Aber dank der Digitaltechnik hatte ich endlich nahezu volle Kontolle über die Bildergebnisse. Richtig aufwärts ging es mit der Anschaffung einer Pentax K10D die leider irgendwann einen Totalschaden hatte. Danach kam meine jetzige Pentax K 3.
Ich befasse mich bislang vorwiegend mit Architektur- und Reisefotografie und nebenbei alte Autos, die auf einem lokalen Oldtimertreffen finde.
Meine Arbeiten findet man unter:
und natürlich, nach Themen sortiert, unter
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View from Dominus flevit towards the old town of Jerusalem
Böhringer Friedrich (Fred)
Deutsch: Mein Name ist Friedrich Karl Böhringer, geboren 1962 in Bregenz und wohnhaft in Wolfurt, Österreich. Als gelernter Tischlermeister bringe ich mich in der Entwicklung eines Schweizer Büromöbel- und Bürostuhlherstellers ein. Die Freizeit gehört zum grössten Teil meiner Familie, der auch drei Kinder angehören.
Eine innerbetriebliche Herausforderung brachte mich auf die Seiten von Wikipedia. Fortan war es mein Ziel diese Idee zu unterstützen. Nachdem ich kein Autor bin war für mich klar, dass ich die Seiten mit Bildern auffrischen könnte. So bin ich seit dem 25. Mai 2007 nahezu täglich in den Wikipedia und Wikimedia Commons unterwegs.
Mein Hobby ist die Fotographie
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D a n k e allen, die meine Bilder bewertet und kommentiert haben.
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Blaugrüne Mosaikjungfer frisch geschlüpft mit Larvenhaut. Der gesammte Schlüpfvorgang dauerte von 09:51 Uhr bis 13:07 Uhr auf einem Acker-Schachtelhalm. 360° Flexenpass Straße Alpstein Panorama Nebelgrenze Bödele Schleinelöcher in Hard
Charles Sharp (Charlesjsharp)
Wildlife portrait photographer from the UK. I have been contributing for more than ten years and most of my photos illustrate articles on English Wikipedia.
My web site is Sharp Photography. It has a search facility. Over 4,400 full size images are stored on Flickr.
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Christian Mehlführer
My name is Christian Mehlführer and I am from Vienna, Austria. I am currently working towards my PhD degree in Communications Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology.
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Christian Ferrer
I am an amateur photographer from southern France.
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I'm a hobbyist photographer living nearby Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. I'm mainly interested in architectural photography. I've studied law in Leipzig and Rome.
I've won the first place of the international Wiki Loves Monuments contest in 2016 with this view of the Berlin regional court and of course I'm very proud of it.
I'm a co-founder of the Commons Photographers User Group.
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Thomas Bresson
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Chris Woodrich (Crisco 1492)
My name is Chris Woodrich and I am a doctorate student based out of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I took up photography as a hobby while in high school in Canada, but only became serious about it in 2013, when I purchased my first DSLR. My photographs generally depict Indonesian culture, architecture, and landscapes, although I also enjoy taking wildlife photographs when I have the chance.
My first contributions to Commons were in 2011, and since then I've uploaded several thousand images, including over a thousand photographs I've taken myself. Of these, 15 are currently featured on Commons.
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Der Wolf im Wald
My name is Thomas and I'm a 22-year-old German grown up near Cologne. Very often, I'm travelling to German cities to upload photos of architecture and cityscape.
With the age of 14, I got interested in photography and started with a cheap digital camera. During this episode, my main photo subjects where trains. Two years later, I bought my first DSLR, the Canon EOS 400D. As my requirements were growing fast, I bought the Canon EOS 50D in 2009 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II in 2010. This is my main camera until today and I am still satisfied with it. Today, I don't shoot train photos anymore. After some city breaks with my family, I discovered my passion for architecture and big cities. Since 2010, I am acting in this scope. Having finished secondary school in spring 2012, I acquired a train ticket, which allows me to take nearly every train in Germany for one year. Since then, I've been traveling throughout the country looking for photo opportunities. Since autumn 2013 I am studying economics at University of Würzburg. Therefore I will upload some images of this region in the near future.
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David Iliff (Diliff)
I'm a 34 year old Australian from Melbourne currently living in London, England.
I've always enjoyed photography, messing around with video cameras and SLRs since I was a kid, but it wasn't until digital cameras started to become (relatively) affordable did I start to take photography seriously. I started off with a 3mp Kodak DC4800 in 2001, then moved up to a 5mp Nikon CP5000 in 2002 but very quickly hit the wall in terms of flexibility and in 2003, moved up in the world to a DSLR in the form of a Canon 10D when it was first released. Since then, I've built up over time a decent collection of quality Canon glass to support my
I'm amused and honoured to be the apparent inspiration for Benh Lieu Song's photography. ;-)
I am active mostly on the English Wikipedia but of course upload all my photographic images to the Commons for use on other Wiki Projects.
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Daniel L. Lu (dllu)
I'm a hobbyist photographer in San Francisco. I am a Canadian born in 1993. I work on robot localization and perception. I usually take photos of cityscapes, vehicles, and architecture. Equipment include:
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Daniel Schwen
I've been contributing to Wikipedia and related projects since November 2004. Photography is a hobby and a nice balance to my physics job. My equipment includes a Canon EOS 5D, with a Canon 24-105mm f/4.0L, a Sigma 150mm Macro, and a Powershot G3. My picture contributions include macro shots and panoramic pictures (assisted by a Nodal Ninja panoramic adapter and assembled using Hugin and Panotools). My other field of contributions involves JavaScript extensions, such as the Commons:WikiMiniAtlas.
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Frank Schulenburg
I'm a German native living in California, most interested in nature and wildlife photography. Earlier in my life, I shot film with a Nikon FM2 and at some point somehow forgot what photography meant to me. In late 2011, I rediscovered my love for taking pictures and started being a regular contributor to Wikimedia Commons.
I love the arts and I believe that photographers can learn a lot from painters. Therefore, my approach to photography is highly driven by the idea of exploring light and composition. By putting a camera in front of our human eye, we learn to see things differently. It's that joy of exploring the unexpected, of looking at shapes, colors, and textures in a different way, what makes photography so special to me.
When not chasing golden hours or traveling, I'm with my wife Payton, in Mill Valley, California.
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George Chernilevsky
I was born on May 2, 1967 on Caucasus in the city of Makhachkala. I live in Ukraine in the city of Vinnitsa now.
My main business is software engineering. Photography is only a hobby. Other interests include travel, biology and military history.
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Georgios Giannopoulos (Ggia)
My name is Georgios (born 1975), I have been contributing to Wikipedia and related projects since 2007. I have studied electrical engineering and computer science. Currently I am working as a teacher of computer in secondary education. I am passionate about black and white photography which I started working since 1993. I develop my black & white films myself but after 2005 I stopped developing photos in a dark room and I am using a film scanner to scan the negatives. The manual cameras I am using include Nikon FM2 and Leica R4 but most of the images I upload in commons are shot by a relatively recently bought (January 2009) Nikon D700 full-frame SLR camera. In my personal blog you can find mostly my black and white photographs. My Nikon D700 has also a GPS and most of my uploaded photos are geo-located.
I love traveling and I like to photograph architecture and monuments. A lot of my images in commons are panoramic images created by stitching software.
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Gideon Pisanty (Gidip)
Born in Haifa (Israel), 1979. Biologist.
I am a PhD student in ecology, studying bee-flower interactions. In my photos I mainly focus on macro photography of plants and insects, in an effort to bring as much as possible from the rich nature of my home country, Israel.
Equipment: Nikon D7000, Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro.
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Godot13 (Andrew Shiva)
My first camera was a family hand-me-down Nikon F. I shot film through the late 1990s, both 35mm (Nikon) and medium format (Mamiya 645, Pentax 6x7). In 2016 I defected from Nikon digital to Cannon. I've experimented with medium format digital (rented) from time to time.
I am open to photograph anything, but have been drawn to historical architecture, landscapes, wildlife, and aerial photography. I also have a strong interest in numismatics and digitizing rare banknotes and coins. I upload all my images to Commons, but am mostly active on English Wikipedia.
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Holleday / H. Krisp
Born in Ulm (Germany), 1974. Biologist.
I've started contributing to Commons in June 2010. I like to take pictures of fungi, amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates.
My current equipment:
Body: Canon EOS 500 and Canon EOS 350
Optical: Canon 15-55 mm, Sigma 70-300 mm and Tamron 90 mm Macro
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Ianaré Sévi
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I am an engineer born in Switzerland, now living and working in Tanzania. I am interested in many things, photography and architecture are among them.
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Not sure how long it is possible to see this: Wild black rhino
Jeevan Jose
I am Jeevan Jose from Kadavoor, Kerala, India. I take photos of plants and bugs; would like to contribute best of them here. Active in other projects like WikiProject Nature and conservation in India, WikiProject Tree of Life, WikiProject Plants and WikiProject Insects in Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Wikispecies and Meta-Wiki. Works together with other similar minded people in India to attract more citizen scientists and photographers to Wikimedia. Fortunate enough to be part of the team when Wikipedia was formally presented with the highly esteemed Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, honoring the Wikimedia movement vision of allowing everyone, everywhere to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Also available at projects like Facebook, Flickr, EOL, Project Noah, India Biodiversity Portal and DiversityIndia.
Uploaded 2,116 images which includes 103 Featured Pictures, 516 Quality Images, 24 Valued Images. Among them, 125 works has been published / re-used outside Wikimedia projects. Created these galleries for those interested to learn and self identify their works: Butterflies of Kerala, Odonata of Kerala, Amphibians of Kerala, Reptiles of Kerala, Birds of Kerala and Mammals of Kerala.
Johann Jaritz
My name is Johann Jaritz and I live in the Austrian state Carinthia. Photography is meditation for me. I find inner peace and fulfillment with my hobby. My preferred topics are landscapes, nature, churches, castles and monasteries.
I have been contributing to WIKI COMMONS since 2006.
Equipment: Nikon D4 and Nikon D810 cameras, a 14-24mm lens, a 24-70mm lens and a 70-200mm lens. Before I used older cameras like Nikon D100, D200, D2H, D90, D70, D700 and D7000.
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Joe Ravi
I am a telecommunications engineer and an amateur photographer. I enjoy taking photos of landscapes, architecture and animals.
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Julian Herzog
Living in Stuttgart, Germany, I study aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and I'm a passionate amateur in photography and 3D graphics as well as an active supporter of open source software.
My activity on Commons is mostly:
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I've been contributing to Wikipedia and Commons since 2007. My first uploads were mainly low quality shots made with camera phones or pictures made by someone else than me. I got more and more excited about photography and bought my fist DSRL in 2009. I try to upload as many useful images to the project as I can, and that includes still also low quality photos as well as high quality photos created with stitching software and DSRL-camera.
I'm administrator on finnish Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
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Tony Jin (King of Hearts)
I grew up in California and am now living in the New York metropolitan area. Ever since getting my first DSLR (a Nikon D40) in 2010, I have had a passion for photography. I mainly photograph landscapes and cityscapes.
Currently, I use a Nikon D750 with primarily the 24-120mm f/4 and 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5, along with a bag of primes. You can find out more about my equipment here.
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I've been contributing to Wikimedia Commons from Japan.
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Luca Galuzzi
I am LucaG, a software engineer from the Milano area, Italy.
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Luc Viatour
I've been contributing to French Wikipedia and related projects since August 2005.
My personal site: http://www.lucnix.be
Body: Nikon Coolpix 5200 / Nikon FE / Nikormat FT3 / Nikon D3S / Nikon D90
Optical: Nikkor 14-24 F2,8 AFS ED / Nikkor 24-70 F2,8 AFS ED / Nikkor 70-200 F2,8 AFS ED VR2 / Nikkor 600mm f/4G AF-S ED VR2 / Nikkor 50mm F1,4 AFD / Nikkor 85mm F1,8 AFD / Sigma 150mm F2,8 DG APO Macro EX / Sigma 10-20mm F4-5,6 DC EX / Sigma 17-70mm F2,8-4,5 DC Macro / TC converter X2 Nikkor TC 20eIII and X1,4 Kenko / 2x Nikon Flash SB600 and SB900
Astronomical refractor: Vixen 103mm F1000 / super polaris equatorial mount.
Since the end of 2005 I publish my image with GIMP. 21
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Richard Bartz aka Makro Freak
Malene Thyssen
I have a M.Sc. in biology, but am currently studying to become a school teacher. I've been contributing to the Danish Wikipedia and related projects since December 2002. I am an amateur photographer. I like to photograph nature (primarily animals) and whatever motives I pass, that I think might be useful on Wikipedia. Some of my best pictures are "lucky" snapshots. I also like the work in the "digital darkroom" editing and improving my pictures.
As a contributor to the Danish Wikipedia it is natural to submit my pictures on Commons hoping my pictures are of use in other Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects. Indeed this is a major motivation factor for me to go on photo safari.
My equipment includes: Canon EOS 400D / Canon EOS 300D / Canon EFS 18-55mm / Canon tele lens EF 75-300mm
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Martin Falbisoner
My name is Martin Falbisoner. I'm an historian and archivist, currently living and working near Cologne. I discovered Commons in 2012 and soon after began sharing my own photographs. I strongly believe in the notion of open content, especially in the idea of free exchange of cultural works - which I also quickly learned to rely on for professional purposes. Consequently I am gladly willing to share my own pictures with anyone who is interested in using them.
Photography is just a hobby of mine and therefore I don't have to specialize in or limit myself to any specific genres. Besides sharing my photos on Commons, I also actively participate in international contests under the patronage of FIAP.
I use Canon equipment, usually my EOS 5D Mark III with lenses reaching from 16mm to 400mm. My favorite RAW editor is DPP, I also use Photoshop, Hugin, ShiftN, and FixFoto.
See more of my work: Featured Pictures by Martin Falbisoner.
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Michael Maggs
After obtaining my degree in physics, I developed an interest in the law and trained as a patent and trademark attorney before completing a law degree. I retired in March 2013 after 30 years in practice (22 as a partner) with a London patent attorney firm.
Photography has been a long-term hobby, and it has been gratifying to discover just how many people and organizations look to Wikimedia Commons as a source of freely-usable images.
I am more than happy to help anyone who is in need of the type of image I take, either for use on Wikipedia or elsewhere. I use a Canon 5D Mk II.
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Marc Ryckaert (MJJR)
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
I am a 19 year old Tanzanian studying computer science in Bangalore, India. I always found photography very interesting, shooting with disposable cameras and cheap point and shoots. It was only after I joined Wikipedia and wikimedia that I took a very serious interest in photography. I bought a Nikon Coolpix and after that was nicked, invested all my savings to purchase my first dSLR. The investment was not a waste and I have been able to explore nature as I had never imagined!
My portfolio mainly consists of macro photographs of arthropods and plant life and occasionally panoramics.
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Nick Hobgood
Fascinated by the natural world from an early age I was fortunate to get a job in East Timor, home to some of the most diverse and abundant marine habitats. A desire to share the wondrous beauty of the coral reefs with my wife and one year old daughter, pushed me to explore underwater photography.
After accumulating a number of images from this fascinating underwater environment, Wikimedia offered an excellent platform to share our marine world with others and promote greater awareness and importance of nature conservation for the benefit of future generations.
Image contributions to Wikimedia include marine life from Haiti and wildlife from Democratic Republic of Congo.
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JJ Harrison
I'm a university student studying Engineering and Science in Tasmania, Australia. Most of my photography is of the local flora, fauna and landscapes. I have been contributing to wikipedia anonymously since late 2003 with my first registered edits in 2006. I am mostly active on the English Wikipedia, I submit my images to commons in the hope that they will be utilized across the wikipedias.
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Born in Paris in 1982, I live in Toulouse since 2002. Engineer and PhD, in computer science with a background in aeronautics, I'm a rugby amateur and photography lover, a dedicated Commonist and OTRS agent. I'm active in GLAM actions and in local actions of Wikimedia France in Toulouse. You may have had the pleasure to meet me during last Wikimania in Washington D.C..
On Commons my interests focuses on:
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Poco a poco (Diego Delso)
My name is Diego Delso and I was born in Spain, but I feel myself a world citizen. I love travelling and getting to know different cultures and languages. I have been contributing in the Wikimedia projects intensively since 2007, especially in the Spanish Wikipedia and in Commons, in both I am administrator.
I started -with analog photography- in 1990, when I was 16, got my first handy digital camera (Casio Exilim EX-S1) in 2002 and my first DSLR in 2008 (Canon EOS 450D). After getting inspired by Commons in 2011 I bought that year my first high-quality objective (Canon EF 100m UVM IS) in order to improve the quality of my pictures and contribute with as many QIs, as possible (so far 14,226). In 2012 I got a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and since then I have been enhancing my equipment ended up getting a Canon EOS 5DS R middle of 2015.
I enjoy photographing everything that moves and doesn't, but love especially landscapes, architecture (day or night) and macro photography.
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Michal Klajban
I come from the Czech Republic but since 2014 I've been living abroad - mostly New Zealand but also Canada, France, Spain and the UK.
I started to take pictures in my youth years, just after I discovered that mountains are actually very nice place to be. When I can't be in the middle of nowhere shooting still peaks, I take pictures of architecture.
I've been on Commons since 2008. So far I've contributed with 97 featured pictures and 2,105 quality images. 18,402 images in total.
I like keeping my life simple and my equipment reflects that. I use only:
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My name is PumpkinSky and I live in the eastern United States. I am an amateur photographer and find photography peaceful and fulfilling. I primarily photograph nature, landscapes, and macros.
Equipment: Nikon D850 camera, a 24-70mm lens, a 70-200mm lens, a 200-500mm lens, and a 105mm macro lens. Before they released the D850 I used a Nikon D5300.
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I am a natural scientist from Germany, amateur photographer and by no means professional. I started using DSLRs in October 2009 and basically I'm learning by doing and by taking advice from fellow wikimedians. I like to take pictures of all things small, typically insects and plants, often in combination.
My current equipment is what would probably called medium-class and consists mainly of
So far, I was able to provide 48 Featured Pictures (Commons and German Wikipedia), 361 Quality Images and 28 Valued Images.
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I always upload my images with maximum resolution and minimum processing, so there is nothing more I could possibly give you.
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I have been a sysop on commons: from the 29th of August 2005 [3], and Oversight on Commons since the 5th of January 2009 [4].
There is a small page to explain how to use my images. Nevertheless, do not hesitate to contact me should you have any question.
I am interested in portrait photography, and have thus documented several Nobel laureates and other notable figures (see User:Rama/people). I do a fair amount of technical photography in museums, sometimes with accreditation obtained directly, through Wikimédia France or through Wikimedia CH. I also organise or take part in photography campaigns under their aegis; you can see examples here .
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Derek Ramsey
I am a software engineer and photographer from the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania, USA. I've contributed to the English Wikipedia since June of 2003. I've been taking pictures since I got my first digital camera in 2004. I enjoy all types of photography, including architecture and landscapes, but find nature photography to be the most useful for Wikipedia articles. I'm passionate about photography. I enjoy taking beautiful images and making large prints. My favorite location to photograph is the wilderness of Alaska. My pictures have been published in a number of books, magazines, web sites, and other locations. I believe we should strive for the goals of the four freedoms.
Equipment: Nikon D2000 and Canon Powershot S110.
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Simon Koopmann
I've been contributing to Wikimedia Commons since 2006. Lately i started to contribute to German wikipedia as well. You can see my complete profile here.
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Taxiarchos228 (Wladyslaw)
My name is Wladyslaw (born 1975), I am contributing to Wikipedia and related projects since August 2004. I have photographed years ago with an analog single-lens reflex camera (Fujica) and started 2004 with digital photography. As I realized that my compact camera does not fit my rising pretensions any more I have changed 2006 to a digital SLR. Currently I am using Nikon D850/D800.
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I like to photograph architecture, city-skylines and landscapes. Many of my buildings I picture are towers in all variations, e.g. bell towers of churches or television towers. But I am interesting in architecture in general starting at historical buildings and going to modern architecture. I am very interested in brutalist architecture and fascinated about the combination of concrete and steel.
For me it's charming and a nice challenge to detect interesting view points even of well-known buildings or landscapes and to show a new angle of vision as possible. And although I have contributed far more than 5000 picture to this project my ideas for new pictures and motives does not end. There is a lot of work still waiting to have been done. ;-)
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Andreas Tille
I'm a physicist by profession and I'm working in the field of information sciences. My main hobby is working on Free Software in the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution where I started the Debian-Med project. My second hobby is taking nature photos. I do this in my holidays exclusively and I'm a conservative photographer that sticks to using slides for his "real photos". As a consequence some of my uploaded images are not as good as the original slide would allow because the process of digitising was done automatically via Kodak Photo CD where not every single image gets the subtlety it would deserve. In case I will find some more time I might redo some scans manually but this is nothing that will happen soon.
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Tomas Castelazo
Empecé a hacer fotografía desde los 12 años. 40 años después, sigo con la cámara en mi mano, con mucha experiencia y con mucho camino por delante. La emoción de hacer fotografía el día de hoy es tan intensa como la de aquel día que sostuve mi primer cámara.
I started doing photography when I was 12 years old. 40 years later the camera is still in my hands, with a lot of experience behind me and a long road ahead. The excitement of doing photography today is just as intense as the one of that day that I held my first camera.
Visit also my personal website: http://www.tomascastelazo.com and https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomascastelazo/
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Tournasol7 (Krzysztof Golik)
My name is Krzysztof Golik and I was born in Poland, but I live in France. I'm a cook in Rodez in the Massif Central. I have a passion for travelling, photography, botany and of course for editing Wikipedia. On Wikimedia Commons I mostly add photos of the places where I have been and images of plant species.
My first camera (Sony Cyber-shot) I won in a geographic competition during college. Some time later he broke down and I had to buy another camera. The choice fell on digital compact camera of brand Olympus (VR310,D720). In July 2014 I lost it... it mean, I left it on the roof of the car. After driving 100 km I noticed with surprise that he is no longer there. Then I decided it was time for a SLR camera. I choose the Nikon D3300, which I have to this day. Initially, I took photos in automatic mode. Only from spring 2017 I started using manual mode. Since then I have noticed the progress in my photography, although I still have to learn a lot. I enjoy photographing everything that doesn't moves :)
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I am an enthusiastic amateur photographer coming from the German Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia. I mainly work on the illustration of regional-related articles. Besides architecture, I am interested in historic buildings and animal photography.
Ich bin leidenschaftlicher Amateur-Fotograf aus dem Ruhrgebiet in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Ein Großteil meiner Motive hat Regionalbezug. Neben Architekturaufnahmen, interessiere ich mich für historische Gebäude und Tierfotografie.
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Simo Räsänen (Ximonic)
Hello! I am Simo Räsänen, also known as Ximonic here in Commons. I am a professional visual artist from Finland, born in 1990. I graduated in Lapland, Northern Finland, albeit nowadays living in the south. As an artist I am mostly doing digital paintings.
As a contributor to Wikimedia projects I am most active in Wikimedia Commons and the Finnish language version of Wikipedia where I joined back in 2008. In Commons I like to submit some of my photographs and organize existing media. I think, quite many people here know me especially from my landscapes of Norway. In Wikipedia I help with various articles and write new ones.
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Dietmar Rabich
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Deutsch: Mein Name ist Dietmar Rabich, hier bei Wikimedia Commons auch XRay. Ich lebe im Münsterland, einer Region in Nordrhein-Westfalen in Deutschland. Fotografieren ist mein Hobby, welches bis in die analogen Zeiten der 1970er-Jahre zurückgeht. Am liebsten lichte ich Architektur, Landschaften und technische Dinge ab.
Die Diapositiv- und die Negativfilme der analogen Zeit erzwangen eine strenge Auswahl, bei der viele schöne Bilder entstanden, andere dafür leider gar nicht erst. Auch wenn die Nachbearbeitung kaum Chancen hatte, gerade aber diese Bilder haben einen historischen Wert und ihren Platz hier bei Wikimedia Commons, um die Zeit auch für andere nutzbar zu dokumentieren.Die Fotografie mit digitalen Mitteln erlaubt die Anfertigung umfassenderen Bildmaterials. Die Nachbearbeitung ermöglicht die Qualitätsverbesserung, die Optimierung. Eine gute Voraussetzung für Bilder, die es lohnt, hier auch anderen zur Verfügung zu stellen.
English: My name is Dietmar Rabich, also known as XRay in Wikimedia Commons. I'm living in the Münsterland, a region in the state North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. One of my passions is taking photos. My favorite photo scenes are architectures, landscapes and technical objects.
Slides and negative films in the analog time enforced a strict selection of the pictures. So only some beautiful pictures were taken, others were never made. Even post-processing was nearly impossible, but these pictures only have historical value. Thus, Wikimedia Commons is a good place for them since they document history for everyone.Digital photography allows the creation of comprehensive picture material. The post-processing enables quality improvement and optimization. A good precondition for images that are worthwhile to make them available to others.
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Dülmen, Kirchspiel
Santorin, Fira
Haltern am See, Quarzwerke
Weeze, Flughafen
Kopenhagen, Bahnhof
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Yann Forget
Born in France in 1965, contributing on Commons since the beginning of the project. I currently live in India where I work for Ekta Parishad. This gives me unique opportunities to take pictures and videos of Indian people, society, culture and environment. I have always been attracted by the free software, and then the free content movement. I contribute to Wikipedia since December 2002. I am the creator of Wikilivres, another wiki for sharing free documents. I have now a Nikon D7000.
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Masaki Ikeda (池田正樹)
Hello I've been contributing to Wikimedia Commons since Sep. 2007. Living in Saitama. It is about 30km north of Tokyo, Japan. I decide we from Sep. 2007 and contribute a photograph to Deer Commons. Spider and the photograph of the insects such as a flower or the butterfly is important.
日本語: 2007年からウィキメディア・コモンズに写真を寄稿しています。 蜘蛛や花や蝶などの写真が主です。 埼玉県さいたま市在住です
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Toby Hudson
I am an amateur photographer from Australia, and enjoy taking photos of Australian animals, architecture, landscapes, and my kids. All but my kids are shared with the friendly users of Wikimedia Commons. I hope you enjoy the colours of my sunburnt country as much as I enjoy sharing them with you.
I started using a Canon EOS 400D in August 2008, and it's still doing good service. I've finally bitten the bullet and added an expensive lens to my kit, a Canon EF 100mm 2.8L Macro IS USM. So far I like it a lot.
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Kurt Liske is a general assignment reporter at News 8, covering a wide variety of news stories throughout eastern Iowa and western Illinois.
Kurt started as a general assignment reporter at Independent Network News in Davenport in 2006. He joined News 8 as a producer in 2010 and became a reporter in 2011.
His interest in journalism started in the first grade at the height of the Gulf War. He watched the latest developments on network television. He furthered his interests at North Scott High School where he created the school's video news service.
Kurt graduated from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa with a major in Communications. He's a fan of the Knights but also of the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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V&A Illustration Awards 2013
V&A Illustration Awards 2013
The V&A Illustration Awards celebrate the best illustration published over the last year. Original artwork from the best illustrated book, book cover, editorial illustration and student illustrator of the year are recognised.
Congratulations to the five winners of the 2013 V&A Illustration Awards who were presented with their prizes at the awards ceremony on 3 June.
This year's published category judges were artist and designer Lady Dyson, lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe, artist Lucy Woodroffe, editor of Stylist magazine Lisa Smosarski, and V&A Director of Design Moira Gemmill.
Judging the student entries were artist, illustrator, designer Matthew Richardson, who has won the Awards himself on two occasions, and designer and lecturer Peter Nencini.
Click on the tabs above to see the winners of each category
A display of the winning illustrations can be seen in Gallery 74 from 4 June - 1 December 2013
The V&A Illustration Awards are supported by the Enid Linder Foundation


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The Icelandic translation for Fire is Eldur and Ofn .
Other possible / similar Icelandic translations may be Brenna .
|Translations in other languages:
|Afrikaans: bak and ontslaan and vuur
|Albanian: zjarr
|Armenian: կրակ and հրդեհ and վառարան
|Basque: su
|Bosnian: peć and vatra
|Bulgarian: огън and печка and пожар and стрелям and уволнявам
|Catalan: foc and incendi
|Croatian: peć and požar and vatra
|Danish: affyre and brand and fyre and ild and opvarme and ovn
|Dutch: afvuren and bakken and brand and ontslaan and vuren and vuur
|Esperanto: brulego and fajro
|Finnish: antaa potkut and liesi and polttaa and tuli and tulipalo and tulittaa
|French: cuire and feu and incendie and licencier and poêle and tirer
|Frisian: brân and dien jaan and fjoer and sjitte
|Galician: lume
|German: abfeuern and brennen and Feuer and feuern and Ofen
|Greek: φωτιά and θερμάστρα
|Hindi: आग
|Hungarian: kályha and kirúg and tüzel and tűz
|Indonesian: api
|Irish: tine
|Italian: fuoco and incendio and licenziare and sparare and stufa
|Japanese: ストーブ and 火 and 火事 and 発射 and 首
|Korean: 불 and 큰불 and 화덕
|Kurdish: agir
|Latin: focus and ignis and incendium
|Latvian: degšana and uguns
|Malay: api and bahan and kebakaran
|Malayalam: തീ
|Maltese: nar
|Norwegian: avfyre and bål and brann and brenne and fyre and gi sparken and ild and ovn
|Novial: faire
|Polish: ogień and piec and pożar and żar
|Portuguese: cozinhar and despedir and disparar and fogão and fogo and incêndio
|Romanian: foc and sobă
|Russian: горение and обжигать and огонь and печь and пожар and стрелять and увольнять
|Slovak: kachle and oheň
|Slovene: odpustiti and ogenj and peč and požar and ustreliti and žgati
|Spanish: cocer and despedir and disparar and estufa and fuego and incendio
|Swahili: kupiga risasi and moto
|Swedish: avfyra and brasa and bränna and eld and skjuta and sparka and spis
|Telugu: ఉద్యోగం నుండి తొలగించు and కాల్చు and మంట
|Turkish: ateş and ocak
|Ukrainian: вогонь and піч
|Vietnamese: hỏa and lửa and vụ
|Welsh: diswyddo and saethu and stof and tanio and tân
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Still in love with Southern Weddings, still love this post!
Has there been any change in my life so seismic as the shift from wedding-hater to wedding-lover?
Other than my new fondness for oatmeal…nope, I don't think there has been any alteration quite as drastic.
For reasons vast and wide, I used to cringe at the thought of weddings – whether attending, photographing, planning – the whole shebang. I could think of 8,000 things I'd rather do. Possibly 80,000.
Whether it was my heart changing substantially over the past few years or attending/being in/photographing/assisting on more weddings than I can count (literally…I only know it's more than 50), something got to me.
I am officially that girl who wants to talk about the diversity and usefulness of burlap as it pertains to reception decor.
Stranger things have not happened.
The apex of this affection for wedded bliss? Southern Weddings Magazine.
OH, Southern Weddings Magazine!
I stumbled upon iloveswmag.com last year when I was entrenched in the search for a photography internship. I was looking for a list of photographers in the south (because every year around this time I decide I want to move to the south) and found that information and SO MUCH MORE on the Southern Weddings blog. Luckily this happened on a day with a free schedule. I literally sat at my computer for the next few hours and poured over pages and pages of blog archives, profiles of Southern Weddings employees, Lara Casey's website, and the Making Things Happen website.
I would wholeheartedly recommend that you do the same.
Here's a brief history of this amazing publication (from Lara Casey's Sit a Spell With Me section):
"I always wanted a place to showcase what fired me up. This all started when we launched the Southern Weddings daily blog in 2007. It was a place for me to share what I loved in weddings, what was inspiring me and to show Southern brides that there was more to telling their unique love story than tulle and stuffed chicken. The blog caught on like wildfire, and people got so excited about a modern look at weddings in the South. The print magazine was born out of the incredible feedback from the blog. I am so grateful for the work we do because our job is to tell these authentic love stories. I love my "work." We're not corporate or owned by some big publishing house. We do the layout, write the editorial, organize the advertising – and everything else – ourselves. We are self-published, which is a rarity nowadays. We're really, really small. We never want to grow to the point where we can't give personal attention to what matters most. We are really grateful for that."
It took me about 5 seconds to decide that I wanted to support this endeavor and needed to order both of the back issues that were currently available – those being Volume II and Volume III since sadly (and not surprisingly), Volume I had completely sold out (Volume III has since acquired the same status).
When it arrived at my doorstep I couldn't believe my eyes.
There, tucked inside the front cover of the most beautiful magazine I had ever seen (seriously – no exaggeration – and you all know how deep and wide my magazine obsession runs) was a postcard. A thank you postcard. A HAND WRITTEN THANK YOU POSTCARD!!!
I was too overjoyed to take pictures that day…and too busy savoring each and every page…but I had the presence of mind to photograph a few of the contents of Volume IV when it arrived. Let's chat about it, shall we?
This is what makes Southern Weddings Magazine my favorite magazine of all time (corresponding to the pictures above):
- The aforementioned hand-written postcard. Can you even believe it?
- The sheer beauty – and heft – of the perfectly packaged magazine
- The design quality of the layout. Each page is packed with unique details and eye-catching colors.
- The southern sayings randomly dispersed throughout the magazine (!!!!!!)
- The personal factor of having the editors comments displayed by different features; the fact that the magazine is so BEAUTIFUL, so professional, and yet so personal is by far my favorite aspect.
- The attention to detail. From the first page to the back cover, every inch of the magazine is soaked in Southern charm.
- The fact that this 250+ page magazine, filled to the brim with more breathtaking imagery, ideas, and love than I can describe in a blog post, is only $5.95. ($5.95!!!)
As for the Volume pictured above, these were my favorite selections:
real weddings (but you'll have to buy V4 to see them all!):
katie + max (color!)
ginny + todd (elegant and understated!)
annie + jimmy (beautifully country!)
paige + adam (rustic!)
And…as if all of this weren't enough…you can also view free digital editions of Volumes I, II, and III online. That means you get to peruse the sold out Volumes! For FREE!
Clear your schedules.
Southern Weddings, thanks for being so wonderful. You're not just a good thing, you are an amazingly wonderful thing that makes me over-the-top giddy. Keep up the phenomenal work!


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Banks of metal have been made since 1868. There are still banks, mechanical banks, and registering banks (those that record the total money deposited) on the face of the bank). The value of a bank is not determined solely by age. Rarity and condition also determine value. Many old iron or tin banks have been reproduced since the 1950s in iron or plastic. Some old well-known reproductions marked Book of Knowledge, John Wright, or Capron are listed. Pottery, glass, and plastic banks are also listed here. Mickey Mouse and other Disneyana banks are listed in Disneyana. Some banks are identified by M numbers based on The Penny Bank Book: Collecting Still Banks by Andy and Susan Moore and the R numbers based on Coin Banks by Banthrico by James L. Redwine.
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With only a day remaining to organize February's post, a gift from the Gods landed on my lap. The (usually excellent) History of the Ancient World web site decided to enter the "Lost Legion" fray. As regular readers will know, we have been blogging on this subject (on and off) for quite some time.
A Mysterious Loss
Yesterday, under the title, "The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious loss", the HotAW web site linked to a BBC News Magazine report (filed last March!) that we already commented on here. But it's not often that we get two bites at the same cherry!
The web site article is, in fact, a precis of a longer piece which appeared in the glossy BBC History magazine in May 2011. There, in a movie tie-in with The Eagle (which we blogged about here), Dr Miles Russell spun a fanciful tale, disingenuously labelled "A solid, historical truth".
The good people at the Daily Mail were sufficiently taken in to announce that "the 2,000 year riddle of Rome's lost Ninth Legion is solved at last"!
BBC bias?
Dr Russell's article is surprisingly unbalanced for the BBC. It seems that their editor was snoozing. There are signs that Wikipedia formed a major source of information (both cite Winston Churchill -- that well-known Roman scholar!). Nor is Dr Russell's tone as measured as we would expect from the BBC: critics who point out "that the Ninth Legion did not die in a remote Scottish valley" (Scottish valley?!) are branded as "somewhat sniffy". These critics use their certainty, he claims, "to ridicule those who don't know any better".
Dr Russell's solid evidence of the legion's demise in some remote Scottish valley is contrasted with the "rather flimsy" evidence of transfer out of Britannia. The solid evidence from Britain ("an immense stone inscription") is contrasted with the flimsy evidence from the Netherlands ("fragmentary tiles, pottery sherds"). I sense someone playing to the crowd.
The competing Netherlands theory, according to Dr Russell, "stretches the evidence beyond all credibility". The seeds of doubt are, by now, firmly planted in the BBC Magazine reader's mind. Meanwhile, Dr Russell bolsters his own Scottish valley theory by claiming that Britannia was "a troublesome cultural backwater", dangerous and volatile, "an ancient equivalent perhaps of modern Afghanistan". (The "perhaps" has been inserted too late to save Dr Russell's credibility -- he has already spun his unsuspecting audience around his finger, by this stage. So much for impartiality.)
Dr Russell helpfully informs any doubting readers that "by far the most plausible answer to the question "what happened to the Ninth?", is that they fought and died in Britain". Er, so, why is there a mystery to solve? Why is there a controversy at all, if it's so plausible, and the alternative is so lacking in credibility? And -- more to the point -- where is the famous BBC even-handedness?
It seems that a new myth has been born, courtesy of Miles Russell. (I think I preferred Rosemary Sutcliff's version.)
The Curious Coda
In fact, things got even more curious at the History of the Ancient World web site. Later that same day, a rival article appeared on their web site, entitled "The fate of the Ninth: The curious disappearance of Legio VIIII Hispana"; an article which we already noted (almost two years ago!) here, and which seems to be a rather more balanced discussion than the BBC-sponsored one. Eheu! Just when you think a topic has finally died ...


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10/31/13 ACT makes its mark
ACT makes its mark
Fewer students are taking the SAT, now less of a benchmark
By Isaac Groves The Times-News 10/31/13
Reprinted with permission.
Fewer Alamance County students are taking an established college entrance test, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, and their participation varies a lot from school to school.
That's to be expected since all high school juniors across the state take the ACT, another widely accepted college entrance exam, without paying the SAT's registration fee.
"If I have a score that gets me where I need to be, I have very little incentive to take" the SAT, said Steve Achey, director of research and accountability at the Alamance-Burlington School System.
Achey presented the test results to the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education this week at its regular October meeting.
Those results show average SAT scores across the district have fallen by one point, while scores across the state have risen by 10 points and remained steady across the country.
Fewer students are taking the SAT in Alamance County and North Carolina. The number of ABSS students taking the SAT in 2013 dropped 8 percentage points, while the number of students taking it statewide dropped 6 percentage points.
Participation at the county's six high schools varied.
SAT participation rates at Hugh M. Cummings High School dropped by nearly 28 percent points, there was an 18 percentage-point drop at Western Alamance High School, and more than a 12 percentage-point drop at Walter M. Williams High School.
Eastern Alamance High School actually had a 6 percentage-point increase in students taking the SAT.
Achey said the SAT is not a good tool to assess schools or the district. Generally only students bound for college bother to take it, and fewer take it now that the ACT is mandatory and free.
Achey said he could not break down reasons for the differences among the high schools because ABSS is busy getting ready for the release of last year's End of Grade and End of Course test results from the state.
The district has long encouraged students to take the SAT as part of steering them toward college.
But ABSS administrators said the SAT is less relevant to schools now since the ACT is not only required, but is also "aligned" to the Common Core Standards that North Carolina adopted along with 44 other states.
Angela Bost, ABSS assistant superintendent, told the board the SAT is not tied to the state's accountability standards for schools and teachers and does not show the district how students are doing with the curriculum the way the ACT does.
According to the ACT website, the ACT is an achievement test, meaning it assesses what students are learning in class, while the SAT is an aptitude test, meaning it assesses students' reasoning and verbal skills.
Board member Kristen Moffett said she understood the ACT to be a better measure of what the district is trying to do.
Board Vice Chair Patsy Simpson said she worried about the drop in SAT testing. She also did not understand why the district was de-emphasizing a test it had treated like a benchmark in past years.
"I don't see what you would do on a daily basis that is different whether it's for the SAT or the ACT or the Common Core," Simpson said. "It sounds like we're jumping from one thing to the other."
Simpson said she was not sure colleges take the ACT as seriously as the SAT.
Greg Zaiser, vice president of admissions at Elon University, said Elon does not favor one test over the other. But Elon, like many East Coast universities, has had more applicants send in SAT scores than ACT.
Still, Zaiser said, Elon is getting a lot more ACT scores as more students from states in the Midwest and West apply and more students from North Carolina take the test.
Bost said the best way to get more students taking the SAT is the more rigorous courses called for in the Common Core Standards to put them on the path to college.


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- Butter and flour for preparing baking sheet and foil
- 1 flour
- 1 large egg white
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
- 3/4 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 300°F. Butter a baking sheet, then line with foil and lightly butter and flour foil, knocking off excess flour.
- Stir together egg white, sugar, vanilla, almond extract, and a pinch of salt until combined, then stir in coconut. Divide coconut mixture into fourths, then drop in 4 mounds (about 2 inches apart) onto baking sheet.
- Bake until tops are pale golden in spots, 15 to 20 minutes, then carefully lift foil with cookies from baking sheet and transfer to a rack to cool completely, about 15 minutes. Peel macaroons from foil.
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I have a feature class in SDE that has various fields where the setting AllowNulls is set to FALSE.
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Slipknot's Corey Taylor Calls Paul Gray's Contributions 'Almost Orchestral'
Slipknot's members may individually be tinkering around with ideas for new music, but singer Corey Taylor tells BBC Radio 1 host Zane Lowe that it will be a difficult task working without the creative force that was bassist Paul Gray.
Taylor explained, "There's a huge void that has to be filled musically. He brought something so different to what we do … There was something so different about what Paul brought to the band. Not only could he write these great riffs - these super-heavy, drudgy riffs - but he has such a great vision for melody. I mean, a lot of the stuff that he wrote had so many different layers to it, it was almost orchestral. And that is gonna be hard to fill, because it was just so different. It comes along once in a generation."
At least there's a wealth of sources to pull from, as Taylor adds, "I mean, Joey [Jordison] is an amazing writer. Mick [Thomson] is a great writer. He comes up with amazing riffs. I can kind of hold my own with these guys. Clown has a brilliant mind for the crazier stuff, but he also has a great idea of what the vibe should be. Jim [Root] writes incredible riffs."
Taylor says Slipknot's decision to carry on is based out of their family vibe, and they have a bond that is growing stronger with their appearances on tour last year in Europe and this year as part of the Mayhem Festival in the U.S. At present, it's tentatively expected that the group will enter the studio in 2013.


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Options Trader Wins Big With Heinz Bid
One well-timed options trade on H.J. Heinz Co. was poised to bring in $1.6 million in overnight profits had it been exercised Thursday.
On Wednesday, an investor made an unusually large bet in lightly traded Heinz options, speculating the packaged-foods company's shares would gain more than 8.1% through mid-June. By Thursday, that trade stood to pay off more 17-fold after Heinz agreed to be acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and private-equity firm 3G Capital, sending Heinz shares skyward.
"Nice timing," said Henry Schwartz, president at options-data firm Trade Alert. That $1.6 million "buys a lot of condiments."


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MONTPELIER — Would fancy grade maple syrup by any other name taste as sweet?
Vermont lawmakers are pondering that question as they consider whether to drop the state's traditional maple labeling system in favor of an international one.
The change pits tradition versus a desire to be a bigger player in world markets. Vermont is the No. 1 maple syrup producer in the United States, but its unique labeling standards put it at odds with the other big producers, including Canada.
The state Senate last week passed and sent to the House a measure to drop fancy, grade A medium amber, dark amber, and grade B. (Fancy is the lightest and mildest, while grade B is the darkest and has the strongest maple flavor.)
In their place would be several types sharing a grade A label, with descriptive phrases following: golden color and delicate taste; amber color and rich taste; dark color and robust taste; very dark color and strong taste.
Senator Kevin Mullin, a Rutland Republican, initially argued against the measure before reluctantly going along.
''We should not be following everyone else in lock step and . . . giving them the ability to try to pretend that syrup made in another state is anywhere near as good as the syrup made in Vermont,'' he said.
Mullin later said he was mollified by assurances that the changes would be phased in over three years and that producers wouldn't have to throw out containers already printed with the existing labels.
State Agriculture Secretary Chuck Ross said the changes have largely been pushed by the industry, though the agency has conducted a series of public hearings to address the concerns of the more reluctant producers.
Thanks to improvements in technology and growing interest by landowners, Vermont's syrup production has roughly doubled in the past decade, to the extent that supply vastly exceeds any demand that would come from a state of about 626,000, Ross said.
''What's become clear is that the majority of syrup produced in the state of Vermont is sold in national and international markets,'' Ross said.
Vermont will maintain its distinct branding by labeling its syrup as coming from the state. Connoisseurs will appreciate that Vermont regulations will continue to require boiling sap for longer than is the case elsewhere, producing a slightly denser product, Ross said. But to continue using a separate grading system would lead to consumer confusion, the secretary added.
Doug Bragg, an eighth-generation syrup producer from East Montpelier, said he was taking the potential changes in stride.
''Most of our customers are asking, why do we have to do this? There's a logic to it, no question about it,'' Bragg said. ''It's still annoying though.''


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MARTINEZ, Ga. – The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) announced its second annual PBC Tennis All-Academic Teams Wednesday, with a pair of Bobcats picked for the honor. Seniors Diane Danna (Paris, France) and Max Beliankou (Minsk, Belarus) were chosen for the women's and men's teams, respectively.
Danna, an All-PBC honoree in both singles and doubles this season, was chosen for the second team thanks in large part to her 3.39 GPA in rhetoric. Danna is 16-4 in singles action, a team-best in victories. Her four losses all came to nationally-ranked competition. The No. 48 player in the country as ranked by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), Danna also teamed up with Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) for a 12-10 mark in doubles, both records coming completely at the first position. She is the first member of Bobcat women's tennis to be chosen for this honor.
Beliankou, the No. 49 national player, was named to the PBC All-Academic First Team. He owns a 3.26 GPA in marketing with a psychology minor. He has a team-high 16 singles wins (16-3), including an 8-1 conference mark. He also owns a 12-9 doubles record, going 9-6 with Giovane Nucci (Santa Catarina, Brazil). Beliankou is the second Georgia College netter on the men's side to take home this honor.
The Bobcats are back in action at the NCAA Regional Tournaments this week. Danna and the Bobcat women travel to Morrow, Ga. to take on Lincoln Memorial University Thursday, May 6 at noon. Beliankou and the men head to Columbus, Ga., facing the winner of tomorrow's LMU/Lander University match-up Friday, May 7 at 1 p.m.
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On a 911 tape newly released to the media, Jennifer Hudson's sister can be heard screaming and crying the day she found her family killed back in 2008.
"Somebody killed my mother," Julia Hudson can be heard screaming into the phone. "Somebody killed my mother, please help me."
Judge Charles P. Burns on Monday agreed to release the tape played during the trial of William Balfour.
On the tape, the operator struggles to hear Julia Hudson as she frantically calms herself to give him the address to her family's Englewood home.
"Can you please send an ambulance, please!" she's heard crying.
Julia Hudson said her mother was on the floor with blood coming from her head. The sister of the Oscar winning actress told the operator she got home from work when she found her mother, then ran out of the house to call police.
"There's a bullet hole in our front door," she said.
"All I could do is run," she said. "I don't know where Julian is or nothing. I'm here by myself."
Darnell Donnerson and Hudson's 29-year-old brother, Jason Hudson were both found dead in the home. Julia Hudson's 7-year-old son, Julian King, was found dead three days later.
Balfour is on trial for the murders.
"Please, help my momma," Julia Hudson said on the tape.
"I think those are going to be -- realistically, that happened right at the time -- that's going to have tremendous emotional impact," law professor Richard Kling said Monday.
Monday's proceedings included testimony from police recalling how they found a gun and, later, King's body.
Before the trial on Friday, testimony was briefly delayed so the judge could address an emergency motion regarding members of the media requesting access to the 911 tapes played during the trial.


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How to Read Data from Excel into R
If you ask users of R what the best way is to import data directly from Microsoft Excel, most of them will probably answer that your best option is to first export from Excel to a CSV file and then use read.csv() to import your data to R.
In fact, this is still the advice in Chapter 8 of the R import and export manual, which says, "The first piece of advice is to avoid doing so if possible!" The reason is that many of the existing methods for importing data from Excel depend on third-party software or libraries that may be difficult to configure, not available on all operating systems, or perhaps have restrictive licensing terms.
However, since February 2011 there exists a new alternative: using the package XLConnect, available from CRAN. What makes XLConnect different is that it uses a Java library to read and write Excel files. This has two advantages:
It runs on all operating systems that support Java. XLConnect is written in Java and runs on Window, Linux, and Mac OS.
There's nothing else to load. XLConnect doesn't require any other libraries or software. If you have Java installed, it should work.
XLConnect also can write Excel files, including changing cell formatting, in both Excel 97–2003 and Excel 2007/10 formats.
To find out more about XLConnect, you can read the excellent package vignette.
By now you're probably itching to get started with an example. Assume you want to read an Excel spreadsheet in your user directory called Elements.xlsx. First, install and load the package; then create an object with the filename:
> install.packages("XLConnect") > library("XLConnect") > excel.file <- file.path("~/Elements.xlsx")
Now you're ready to read a sheet of this workbook with the readWorksheetFromFile() function. You need to pass it at least two arguments:
file: A character string with a path to a valid .xls or .xlsx file
sheet: Either an integer indicating the position of the worksheet (for example, sheet=1) or the name of the worksheet (for example, sheet="Sheet2″)
The following two lines do exactly the same thing — they both import the data in the first worksheet (called Sheet1):
> elements <- readWorksheetFromFile(excel.file, sheet=1) > elements <- readWorksheetFromFile(excel.file, sheet="Sheet1")


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FS#183 - cutaway_textures broken with child unions
Opened by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 03:29 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Saturday, 21 January 2017, 17:22 GMT
When using cutaway_textures in a CSG object that has union children, results are not as expected; instead, surfaces in the union children that have no explicit texture will be rendered with the default texture instead. This is not the case for e.g. difference children.
#default { texture { pigment { rgb 1 } } } camera { right x*image_width/image_height location <0,1.5,-4> look_at <0,1,0> } light_source { <500,500,-500> color rgb 1 } #declare U = union { sphere { <0,-0.1,-1>, 0.3 } sphere { <0, 0.1,-1>, 0.3 pigment { color red 1 } } } intersection { sphere { <0,0,0>, 1 pigment { color green 1 } } object { U } cutaway_textures rotate y*90 }
When declaring U as an intersection instead, the results are as expected, with the surface of the first sphere in U being rendered with the texture defined in the outer intersection.
I have taken a first attempt at looking at (and building) the source. So far what I have found is that it seems the default texture has been applied to the union object without a texture. When the final texture is evaluated, the texture is non-null and so treats that as an applied texture. The object gets this texture when line 9383 of parse.cpp (beta 41) is executed. I tried changing the logic around this statement from an OR to an AND and my test rendering came out correct (though this could easily not be the correct solution.)
A solution actually exists already, but backward compatibility issues are still to be solved, so it won't be implemented in 3.7.0.
Thanks Christoph. :)
Does this solution exist anywhere I can get a hold of it? I very much appreciate the efforts you have put in.
Actually, this is no longer a pressing issue for me as my parts are rendering correctly with my change.
Thanks again,
Testing again (3.7RC3)
* intersection gives a yellow surface (green+red) with cutaway_textures (I find it strange)
* union gives a white surface (which is not the color of first item in intersection, so cutaway is useless)
* difference gives a green surface (which is ok)
Adding an explicit pigment at the intersection (instead of the first member):
* union gives a green surface (kind of ok)
* intersection too (ok also)
* difference is ok too.
Did I mention already that, although a solution does exist, it's not bound for 3.70? Consequently it's no surprise that 3.7RC3 still gives unexpected results
- Field changed: Status (Assigned → Tracked on GitHub)
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The U.S. Army announced today the launch of the third chapter of America's Army - The Graphic Novel, a free online comic publication based on the popular computer game, America's Army 3. Chapter 3: "Under a Watchful Eye" is now live on the America's Army website (www.americasarmy.com/graphicnovel/).
Come follow the lives of U.S. Army Soldiers, at home station and while deployed, in occupations including UAV Operator, Intelligence Analyst, Medic, Infantryman, and Apache Helicopter Pilot. In America's Army - The Graphic Novel, readers explore the continuing saga of America's Army through stories of leadership, bravery and teamwork that showcase Army operations, advanced training, diverse careers, and high tech equipment and weapons.
In Chapter 1: "Knowledge is Power" a U.S. Army Long Range Surveillance team is deployed as a conflict rises between two neighboring countries, Czervenia and the Republic of the Ostregals. During the mission, the LRS team comes under fire by Czervenian NME forces while gathering critical information on a suspicious package. In Chapter 2: "Rise to the Challenge" follow Combat Medic Roy Lacroix from high school graduate to U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier saving lives during the Czervenian invasion. In Chapter 3: "Under a Watchful Eye," U.S. forces use state-of-the-art unmanned aircraft to provide support to the war-torn region in order to gather information about the attacking Czervenian Army, and rescue a member of the VOC Resistance who claims to have essential information about the mysterious package, one that could have terrifying consequences to the region and even the world.
The online graphic novel features an original flash interface with advanced viewing controls to grab and flip pages or zoom-in on a specific comic panel. A "field manual" offers a glossary of terms and Army acronyms and many pages have embedded context links to learn more about Army life, jobs, or gear.
Chapters of the Graphic Novel will also be available as motion comics. Experience the America's Army Graphic Novel in a whole new way, as an animated comic, complete with sound track, animations, sound effects and voice actors. Currently Chapter 1 (Part 1 of 3) is available on the America's Army website and YouTube channel.
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America's Army is the only action game that delivers an authentic and entertaining Army experience by reflecting the training, technology, skills, and career advancement of a United States Army Soldier. The game has become an online phenomenon, ranking among the most popular PC action games played online. America's Army games are rated T for Teen and can be downloaded free from Steam (www.americasarmy.com/steam) and from partners listed on the website (www.americasarmy.com). The Army launched America's Army in July of 2002 and the most recent version, AA3 launched in June
2009. In keeping with the dynamic nature of Soldiering, the America's Army game will continue to expand and allow players to explore the Army of today, tomorrow and the future. America's Army is produced by the Army Game Studio, part of the AMRDEC Software Engineering Directorate at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama. Managed by Program Director Frank Blackwell, the Army Game Studio houses the development and management staff for the America's Army online PC game as well as numerous Military and Government applications.


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S01:E04 - How Did We Get Here
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During a sleepless night Nathan reflects on his life and his relationship with Sammy.
Season 1
S01:E01 - Packed to the Rafters
The episode is focused around the 25th wedding anniversary of Julie and Dave, as their last child at home moves out and they look forward to a new life together, as empty-nesters.
S01:E02 - Playing the Googly
Dave processes the reality of sudden unemployment and a house that has been unexpectedly inundated with family members.
S01:E03 - She Ain't Heavy
Ben deals with the repercussions of his move next door and the shift in household dynamics as their new house-mate Melissa joins them there.
S01:E04 - How Did We Get Here
During a sleepless night Nathan reflects on his life and his relationship with Sammy.
S01:E05 - Lines of Communication
Julie is starting to feel very much the financial strain of the family's new living arrangements.
S01:E06 - Facing Demons
In the aftermath of the sex video Rachel tells the story of how she met, fell in love and eventually left Daniel.
S01:E07 - Self Made Man
Despite Nathan's attempts to hide their invitation the Rafters attend a party at the Westaways'.
S01:E08 - Taking the Lead
Ben faces up to his true feelings for Melissa after their one night stand, just as Carbo sparks a surprising friendship with Chrissy.
S01:E09 - Suburban Boy
Tormented by the sudden endless replays on the radio of "Suburban Boy", the hit song Dave co-wrote many moons ago but never received credit nor remuneration for.
S01:E10 - All In the Planning
Rachel faces the very scary possibility that she might be pregnant - with Daniel the only possible father
S01:E11 - Away from It All
Julie spontaneously decides to drag her seemingly exhausted and dispirited family away for a restorative weekend
S01:E12 - Removing the Block
Struggling with the loneliness of the Christmas season and encouraged to embrace life by Louise's 'letter to the future' Ted attends a meeting of Friend Finders.
S01:E13 - Smile Through the Pain
A few days into the new year Dave's dreading his upcoming birthday.
S01:E14 - a Mothers Radar
Julie struggles to deal with the secrets her family - and she herself - are keeping
S01:E15 - Natural Justice
Ben, still dealing with the trauma of being held up, is critical of Nathan when his lack of concentration during a cricket match costs Dave his first ever century
S01:E16 - Having it All
Rachel becomes a woman on a mission as she immerses herself in a an autobiographical novel - An Angel At My Table
S01:E17 - Changes
Dave's fatherly instincts are in overdrive when he learns that the new man in Rachel's life is Rob "Dumbo" Dunstan an old cricket chum of his
S01:E18 - House of Cards
Ben deals with the consequences of his one night stand with Kat - he has to tell Melissa.
S01:E19 - Over the Moon
The moon is nearly full and there's weirdness in the air. Neighbours are at war, Ben begs the moon goddess for five minutes with Melissa
S01:E20 - Losing the Touch
Whilst still in denial about menopause Julie concedes the loss of her mothering instincts as she struggles to give advice to her family and friends
S01:E21 - What a Difference a Year Makes Part 1
On the morning of the anniversary of their marriage and Louise's death, Nathan and Sammy reunite.
S01:E22 - What a Difference a Year Makes Part 2
Julie and Dave wrestle with the news that Julie is pregnant - do they want to keep the baby or not?
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