User:Quartl

I usually contribute to the German Wikipedia, where I'm mostly involved with voting in and archiving of KEB (candidates for excellent images, roughly equivalent to FPC), but I also sometimes write articles on the subjects I take pictures of. On Commons I contribute to QIC, VIC and FPC (in this order) where I normally review at least as many images as I nominate. I also organize species galleries and tag images with erroneous ids for renaming.

My current equipment is what would probably called medium-class and consists of

• a Nikon D90 DSLR
• a Sigma 18-200 mm F3,5-6,3 DC lens
• a Sigma 105 mm F2,8 EX DG macro lens and
• an Alpha 2500 tripod

The large majority of images is taken with the macro lens, however, and I rarely use the tripod because I find it too cumbersome in the field. Until October 2009 I used a Ricoh R10 compact camera.

I usually take pictures of all things small, mostly insects and flowers and combinations thereof. When I return home from a trip, I have fun identifying the depicted specimens and am steadily accumulating field identification books. I'm most experienced with the photography and identifation of damsel-, dragon- and butterflies, but I'm getting good at grasshoppers and bugs too.

C: Commons Featured Pictures, D: German Wikipedia Exzellente Bilder, E: English Wikipedia Featured Pictures

• Striped Shield Bugs C
  Striped Shield Bugs Featured pictures C
• Golden Barrel Cactus C
  Golden Barrel Cactus Featured pictures C
• Dead Leaf C,E
  Dead Leaf Featured pictures C,E
• Moorish Villa C,D
  Moorish Villa Featured pictures C,D
• Flower Crab Spider C
  Flower Crab Spider Featured pictures C
• Tacking Point Lighthouse C,D
  Tacking Point Lighthouse Featured pictures C,D
• Blue Poison Dart Frog C,E
  Blue Poison Dart Frog Featured pictures C,E
• Steppe Eagle C
  Steppe Eagle Featured pictures C

All Featured Pictures (41)

• Common Darter
  Common Darter Quality images
• Botanical Institute
  Botanical Institute Quality images
• Burg Are
  Burg Are Quality images
• Moorish Villa
  Moorish Villa Quality images
• Common Toads
  Common Toads Quality images
• Tacking Point Light
  Tacking Point Light Quality images
• Noisy Miner
  Noisy Miner Quality images
• Paper Kite
  Paper Kite Quality images

All Quality Images (361)

• Dead Leaf
  Dead Leaf Valued images
• Long-legged Bandwing
  Long-legged Bandwing Valued images
• Marbled Duck
  Marbled Duck Valued images
• Flower Crab Spider
  Flower Crab Spider Valued images
• Doris Longwing
  Doris Longwing Valued images
• Hewitson's Longwing
  Hewitson's Longwing Valued images
• Furrow Orbweaver set
  Furrow Orbweaver Valued images set
• Red-veined Dropwing
  Red-veined Dropwing Valued images

All Valued Images (28)

• Tenerife (56 images)
  Tenerife
  (56 images)
• Wild animals (200+ images)
  Wild animals
  (200+ images)
• Mushrooms (need ids!) (74 images)
  Mushrooms (need ids!)
  (74 images)
• Zoo animals (104 images)
  Zoo animals
  (104 images)
• Walsrode Bird Park (138 images)
  Walsrode Bird Park
  (138 images)
• Wildlife Park Lüneburg (90 images)
  Wildlife Park Lüneburg
  (90 images)
• More insects (163 images)
  More insects
  (163 images)
• Animals of Australia (120 images)
  Animals of Australia
  (120 images)

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