Taking a photo for Wikipedia sometimes means you have to go back to a place multiple times. I shot the Bayliss Carnegie Library for the first time last year. It was early in the season and the weather wasn't particularly pleasing. In cases like that, I wait for the next opportunity. Last Sunday morning, I drove to the library and saw that the flowers were blooming and the lawn looked fresh and green. The resulting shot shows the building in all its beauty! #wikipedia #california #libraries
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As an image creator for #Wikipedia, I find it extremely satisfying to be aware of the history of #photography. It helps me appreciate the art form better and learn from other photographers‘ techniques and styles. Studying the works of other photographers also inspires me to experiment with my own photography.
Motorcyclist in Midtown Manhattan, a shot reminiscent of Austrian-American photographer Ernst Haas (1921–1986), taken last Thursday in #NYC
Wikipedia's coverage of different photography genres is uneven. Take contemporary street photography as an example. We've only got images from a handful of cities:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Street_photography_in_the_United_States
Now, there must be street photographers in other cities who are willing to share their work under a free license…
Here's my contribution from last night. Let's get this going!
An easy way of improving #Wikipedia as a photographer is to take pictures of current events in your local area. Here's an image of the flooding in a Butte County walnut orchard after some back-to-back atmospheric rivers hit California over the course of the past couple of weeks. I took this image this morning near the Sacramento River southwest of Chico and it's already up on Wikipedia…
#buttecounty #flooding #wikimediacommons #wikiphotographer #walnutorchard
One of the best things about taking photos for #Wikipedia? Being able to share the beauty of nature with millions of people through your lens.
Image: The north face of the volcano Mount Shasta (Karuk: “Úytaahkoo”) as seen from Siskiyou County Route A12 at sunset, January 2022 (CC-BY SA)
#naturephotography #mountshasta #wikimediacommons #landscapephotography #northerncalifornia #wikiphotographer
When I take photos for #Wikipedia, I sometimes come across a random, yet beautiful subject. Like when I was photographing the Pacific Coast a couple days ago and saw this European Starling sitting on a wooden pole right next to the Bodega Head parking lot.
Fun fact: all European Starlings in North America descended from birds set loose in New York's Central Park in the early 1890s.
Every now and then I give presentations about #Wikipedia. When I talk about the free encyclopedia being an open system that everybody can edit by just pressing a button, people ask: "How is it even possible that Wikipedia's quality doesn't degrade over time?"
My answer is: "Because there are more good people than bad people on this planet."
What's your question about Wikipedia?
#thepowerofopen #openknowledge
Photo: Wikimania 2014 group picture by Adam Novak, CC BY-SA 4.0
Most people that I meet on my photography adventures don't know that "taking pictures for Wikipedia" is a thing. So, when I'm out shooting, I often engage in conversations about how Wikipedia needs more photos. That's what happened this morning, when I took this image for the article "Greater white-fronted goose":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_white-fronted_goose
Please consider sharing your photos with a global audience through #Wikipedia !
#PacificFlyway #wikiphotographer #birdphotography #wikimediacommons
As a Wikipedian, I love books! This is a view of the beautiful Heyne reading room at the Göttingen State and University Library. After a series of thefts, it was closed to users in 2010.
I'm very thankful to the people at the Göttingen university library for giving me special access to this place. This is where I wrote some of my early Wikipedia articles, back in the days when I was still living in Germany.
#subgöttingen #göttingen #wikiphotographer #wikipedia #wikimediacommons #photography
I love photographing modern architecture for #Wikipedia. This is a photo of the Museumsinsel subway station in Berlin's Mitte district. I took it during a photowalk with one of my friends in September 2022.
#wikiphotographer #ubahn #museumsinsel #berlin #photography #fotografie #wikimediacommons #modernrachitecture #architecturephotography #germany #berlinmitte