The following are galleries of the images I have given to Wikimedia Commons, organized by subject area:
The Leeward Islands, West Indies
editNevis, St. Kitts, St Eustatius, Montserrat
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View looking inland from inside the Nevis airport
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A view of Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park from the sea, island of St. Kitts, 2010
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The uninhabited island of Redonda, West Indies, a view from the south
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The west (leeward) coast of Redonda consists almost entirely of sheer cliffs many hundreds of feet high
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A detail of the west coast shows the reddish volcanic rock cliffs and a small rock islet with a visible intertidal algal zone
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A small stone building on the top of the island of Redonda, Leeward Islands, West Indies, is one of a few surviving structures that date from the days when guano was mined there
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Redonda viewed from the southeast, with waves breaking on a rock cobble beach
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A better view (sunny) of the stone hut on top of Redonda
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Captain Arthur Anslyn in 2014, on the waterfront next to the port, in Charlestown, the capital of Nevis, West Indies. Nevis flag flying in upper left of image. Southeastern Peninsula of the Island of St. Kitts visible in the distance.
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Captain Arthur Anslyn standing at the port in Nevis with MV Carib Queen behind him. He was Captain of that ferryboat for 19 years.
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A view of the Christena Memorial on the Charlestown waterfront on Nevis, looking north towards St. Kitts, with the Alexander Hamilton house on the right
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On the side that faces the sea, the Christena Memorial on Nevis shows a list of those who perished.
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On the side that faces inland, the Christena Memorial includes a map of the route the ferryboat was taking between St. Kitts and Nevis.
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A view looking south along Gallows Bay on the island of Nevis, with the Bogs (a marshland area) visible on the left.
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A view of the headquarters of STENAPA on the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius, West Indies
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The sign at the beginning of the hiking trail leading from Little Bay up and over the headland to Rendezvous Bay on Monserrat
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A view of half of the coastline of Little Bay, and a glimpse of Carrs Bay, taken from partway up the headland between Little Bay and Rendezvous Bay, on the island of Montserrat in 2012
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All these vegetables (and the star fruit and coconuts) were grown locally in Gingerland on the island of Nevis (St Kitts & Nevis). Counterclockwise from the lower left there is: star fruit (with taro root behind them), scallions, a cut piece of tropical pumpkin with cucumbers behind it, green beans (behind the green beans are white sweet potatoes), carrots, okra in bags, the herb thyme in bags, savory peppers (red and green in a bag), spiny and smooth christophene behind the thyme and peppers, in the back row from right to left are onions, coconuts, potatoes, butternut squash with small ?breadfruit in front of it, potatoes, beets?, green bananas, and green plantains.
San Diego County, California
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A view of the beach at Tourmaline Surfing Park looking north, with False Point in La Jolla visible in the distance. September 2006
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The view looking inland from the parking lot at Tourmaline Surf Park. August, 2007
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View of Moonlight Beach looking north, 2011
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Moonlight Beach from the second floor of the Moonlight Beach Motel, 2006
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A view looking north in La Jolla showing Seal Rock on the left and Shell Beach on the right. August 2007
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A view of La Jolla Cove from the south end, September 2006
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A closer view of Shell Beach in La Jolla, August 2007
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A better view of Moonlight Beach
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The boathouses in Encinitas
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Two 1894 bungalows above the Cove in La Jolla
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A large installation by American sculptor Nancy Rubins. The piece, called "Pleasure Point", was displayed projecting out from the roof at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla branch, 2007
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The side of "Red Roost" in La Jolla, a bungalow built in 1894
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Swami's beach in Encinitas, looking north towards the point, 2007
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A 2007 view looking north along Swami's beach in Encinitas, showing the point and the Self Realization Fellowship ashram, including (on the left) the hermitage where Yogananda wrote Autobiography of a Yogi
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A view from Highway 101 of Cottonwood Creek within Cottonwood Creek Park, near Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, California, 2007
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Rip current warning signs in English and Spanish at Mission Beach, San Diego, California
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A view of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2011, taken from the Birch Aquarium.
New York City
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Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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The Coney Island Polar Bear Club in the water on December 22nd, 2013
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The beach at Coney Island, Queens, New York, in August 2007, with the west end of the Rockaway peninsula (Breezy Point tip) visible on the horizon.
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View of Coney Island beach west of the pier, October, 2010
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A flower of a tree peony in a garden in Queens, New York City, May, 2007
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A view of the southern end of Tottenville Station, on Staten Island, 2013
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Roselle plant at Wave Hill, the Bronx, NYC
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Roselle plant at Wave Hill, the Bronx, NYC
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A view of one section of the People's Climate March waiting to start, south of Columbus Circle on Broadway
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A view of a Tibet Center meeting with Khyongla Rato Rinpoche teaching
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A view of the beach at Fort Tilden, Gateway National Recreation Area, Queens, NYC
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A view from the terrace of the dry garden looking southwest. Red pitcher plants in the foreground, September 2014.
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A view of the cactus and succulent collection at Wave Hill, 2014
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View of Wave Hill House, 27th September 2014
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The interior of the Laurie Beechman Theater before a show, Oct 10th 2014
Long Island, New York
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The mansion of the Harold I. Pratt estate, Welwyn, at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York State, USA. Current a Holocaust museum
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The doorway of the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, in the mansion of the Welwyn estate at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York State, US
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View at low tide looking north along the coast and across Long Island Sound, at Welwyn Preserve, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA, October 2014
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Poison Ivy in fall colors next to the beach at Welwyn Preserve, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, October 2014
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Opuntia humifusa in fruit by the beach at Welwyn Preserve,Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, October 2014
Shells, other animals, biology & medicine
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Two plates of the chiton species Acanthopleura granulata from beachdrift on the island of Nevis. The lower plate is a tail plate.
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A 152 mm shell of Spisula solidissima from Long Beach, Long Island, New York State, left valve at the top, right valve at the bottom
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A molted carapace of Cancer irroratus from Long Beach, New York
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A cameo (carving) on the dorsum of the tiger cowry, Cypraea tigris
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The jumping spider Metacyrba taeniola taeniola from New Jersey
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Five live individuals of the land snail Subulina octona on a wet washcloth. Nevis, West Indies
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A dried-up egg case of the little skate, washed up on Long Beach, New York, in October 2010
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Four subadult shells of Lobatus gigas from Nevis. All were fished and show the cut in the spire that is used to sever the columellar muscle.
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A docile young corn snake captured from the wild as an introduced species on the island of Nevis, West Indies, in 2009.
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Two people digging for clams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 2008.
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A 10 mm liver spot (solar lentigo) on the forearm of a 66-year old woman
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Three individuals of the land slug Lehmannia valentiana, from a compost barrel in a garden in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC
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Donax fossor from Fort Tilden, Queens, NYC. Upper right are three live individuals, the rest are paired valves, lower center is the interior of a pair
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Acanthoscurria antillensis seen at night resting on a flat rock, after rain, at 2,000 feet on the island of Nevis, West Indies
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The entrance to an A. antillensis burrow in grassland near the coast, Nevis, West Indies
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A sponge crab (presumably Moreiradromia antillensis) found in a tide pool at low tide on Nevis, St. Kitts & Nevis, Leeward Islands, West Indies, March 2014
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Ventral view of the same crab
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A left valve of a juvenile Mercenaria campechiensis viewed from the top to show the brown-tinted lunule on the right, next to the forward facing beak.
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A right valve of Chionopsis intapurpurea viewed from the top to show the brown-tinted lunule.
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The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum exhibit showing how the Calusa people used the shells of the locally-occurring large whelks to form tools.
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Part of the BMNSM exhibit on scallops
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Part of one museum exhibit shows a growth series of the very attractive shell Scaphella junonia, which is found (but only quite rarely) on the island of Sanibel.
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One of the exhibits on the shells of Sanibel Island
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Exhibits about worldwide shells, and one showing World Record Size shells
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The exhibit about micromollusks
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Exhibit showing albino specimens of local shells, including the horse conch
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Exhibits showing the fossil shells of Florida
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Outdoor photo banner of the bivalve Asaphis deflorata
Sanibel, Florida
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A view of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum in Sanibel, Florida, with the Raymond Burr memorial garden in the foreground, December 2011
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A 2014 view of the museum with the new shell photo banners in place
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A view looking across to Sanibel from the Captiva side of Blind Pass. The bridge connecting the two islands is visible on the extreme left.
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Looking towards the mainland from the bay side of Sanibel showing the causeway in the distance.
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A view looking north on the beach at West Gulf Drive Beach access point #7, Sanibel, Lee County, Florida. The whitish objects are all shells, and so are some of the brown objects too.
Notable humans
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Khyongla Rato Rinpoche (with his translator Tenzin Gelek on the right) teaching at the Tibet Center in NYC on 15th September 2014
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Bob Camp, American cartoonist and animator, photo taken in downtown NYC
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Larry Hama, American comic book writer and artist, photo taken in downtown NYC
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Michael C. Gross, American artist, film producer, art director, photo taken in downtown NYC
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Sam Gross, American cartoonist, photo taken in downtown NYC
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Tony Hendra, English satirist, photo taken in downtown NYC, September 17, 2014
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Khyongla Rato Rinpoche teaching on "Om Mani Padme Hum" on September 22nd, 2014 in The Tibet Center, NYC
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Captain Arthur Anslyn in 2014, on the waterfront next to the port, in Charlestown, the capital of Nevis, West Indies. Nevis flag flying in upper left of image. Southeastern Peninsula of the Island of St. Kitts visible in the distance.
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Captain Arthur Anslyn standing at the port in Nevis with MV Carib Queen behind him. He was Captain of that ferryboat for 19 years.
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The environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow at Wave Hill, October 12th, 2014
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Geshe Nicholas Vreeland at Lincoln Center during the New York premiere of Monk with a Camera
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Geshe Nicholas Vreeland at Lincoln Center listening to a question during the New York premiere of the film
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Guido Santi, the director, at Lincoln Center
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Tina Mascara, the director, at Lincoln Center