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My most recent Featured Picture nomination, a lovely shot of the
bathing boxes in
Brighton, Victoria. You can see
the nomination and cast a vote on the FPC page, or see just (image promoted) this nomination
here.
I live in Victoria, Australia. I am a high school teacher mainly specialising in IT and the Sciences. I started using Wikipedia way back in 2001 or 2002 when it was still pretty new. I created this account in 2005, but only started contributing in May 2006.
Some of my photos were attached to articles by another user for a while before I started contributing myself, and I have added many more since. My original photos were taken using a Canon PowerShot A95, with four being promoted as Featured Pictures.
Early in 2007 I bought a Canon EOS 400D DSLR to move onto the next level in photography. It came with the kit Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens which I stuck with for a while, before later adding some higher quality lenses. See my entry here for more details. I've uploaded many photos from this camera now, with ten having been promoted as Featured Pictures.
Apart from the photos I help out with contributions where I can. I know bits and pieces about lots of things and am pretty good at finding information and picking up errors in articles. I am also pretty good with tidying up bad grammar and spelling, and improving layouts. So I pop up here and there looking to improve things in general.
--jjron (talk) 08:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] jjron's Image Gallery
My main area of work on Wikipedia is probably to do with contributing images. You can view a gallery of my image contributions in my image Gallery. I have my Gallery divided into a number of subpages which you can access from the Gallery mainpage or from here:
[edit] Featured Picture contributions
I am a regular voter in the Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates project.
[edit] My Featured Pictures
- I have had twenty of my photos promoted to a Featured Picture. They are displayed below, with links to their nominations in bold:
- Tulips at Floriade, Canberra, ACT, in 2005.
- Metung Wharf panorama at Metung on Bancroft Bay, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
- Melbourne Docklands pano showing the Docklands and city skyline, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Japanese Gardens, Cowra pano from the Symbolic Mountain at the gardens in Cowra, NSW.
- Fuel Dumping (dump-and-burn) by a RAAF F-111.
- Camel, a dromedary camel taken near Silverton, NSW.
- Hereford Calf at SC, Victoria, Australia.
- Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) panicle at SC, Victoria, Australia.
- Broken Hill, NSW backed by the man-made mullock heaps from the Line of Lode Mine.
- Eastern Bearded Dragon, (Pogona barbata) taken at Healesville, Victoria, Australia.
- Brolga (Grus rubicunda) taken at Healesville, Victoria.
- Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) taken in Victoria, Australia.
- Camouflaged Common Snakeneck Turtle (Chelodina longicollis) taken in Victoria.
- Nectarine Fruit Development (Prunus persica) flower and fruit at SC, Victoria.
- Common Grass-blue (Zizina labradus) at SC, Victoria, Australia.
- Australian Synchrotron, showing the interior of the synchrotron, including the storage ring, at Clayton, Victoria.
- Arborist felling a eucalyptus tree with a chainsaw, near Kallista, Victoria.
- Nelligen, NSW in the morning mist across the Clyde River.
- Mazda6 (or Mazda Atenza) at Macmillan's Lookout.
- Brighton Beach and the famous bathing boxes at Brighton, Victoria.
[edit] Work on other's Featured Pictures
- I have had seven of my nominations of other people's pictures promoted to a Featured Picture:
- Historic Flinders St Station, Melbourne
- Lillian Gish (also edited prior to nom)
- Sun Dogs (also edited prior to nom)
- Wayne Gretzky
- Bicolored Antbird
- Sikh pilgrim at Harmandir Sahib
- Governor Davey's (sic) Proclamation to the Aborigines (also edited for nom)
- I have had thirteen of my edits of other user's pictures promoted to a Featured Picture:
- Dried Seahorse
- Marmot
- Humpback Whales Feeding
- Gold dust day gecko
- Pancratium zeylanicum flower
- Chris Young at Wrigley Field
- The Trinity Nuclear Test, 1945
- Mercury by Messenger Spacecraft
- Saddam Hussein at trial
- Eritrean Railway
- Shea Smith Quarterback
- Superb Fairy Wren
- Frieze of Parnassus
[edit] Valued Pictures
- I had three of my photos and one nomination of another image promoted to a Valued pictures. They are displayed below, with links to their nominations in bold:
- Jeff Hardy in Melbourne, 2007.
- Brown falcon in Victoria, 2008.
- Red Sand Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, 2006.
- W. G. Grace, 1883 (nomination).
[edit] Reference Desk contributions
I also contribute to the Wikipedia Reference Desks on a regular basis.
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[edit] Awards
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| For all your edits I give you a barnstar. Bewareofdog 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar |
| For contributing good pictures and helping out kindly to newbies at FPC. Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar |
| Thank you for ALL your help with the edits and advice that helped me get my first featured picture.Thanks a TON Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar |
| Once I saw your Triple H image I just had to give you this. Keep up the Great work. -- LAX 22:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| I'm giving you this Barnstar, Jiron, for your kindness and understanding. The best wishes for 2008. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| Awarded to Jjron for ferreting out a pernicious sockpuppet. Matt Deres (talk) 23:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| Thanks a lot for your help with my picture nomination and in general! Elephantissimo (talk) 22:16, 27 March 2008 |
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| Thanks for cleaning up after LordSunday and helping clear the backlog and preserving my sanity in the process - things that probably wouldn't have been done (properly) for yonks if you didn't. MER-C 13:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC) |
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| For keeping Picture Peer Review under control and not allowing it to overflow (indeed a laborious and repetitive task), I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 16:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC) |
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| Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. --Fir0002 12:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC) |
[edit] Some useful links
[edit] Featured Pictures
[edit] Picture Peer Review
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[[Wikipedia:Picture peer review|Picture peer review]] |
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| PPR Preload |
[[Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Preload|PPR Preload]] |
| PPR Template |
[[Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Template|PPR Template]] |
| PPR Archives |
[[Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Archives|PPR Archives]] |
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[edit] Valued Pictures
[edit] Others
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