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I'm a lawyer who lives in [[Rosemont, Pennsylvania]] and works in [[Philadelphia]].  My Wikipedia interests include my undergraduate alma mater (the [[University of Chicago]]), and the history and geography of southeastern [[Pennsylvania]].


==Galleries of Images==
===Featured Pictures nominated by me===
The following images are [[Wikipedia:Featured Pictures|Featured Pictures]] that were [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates|nominated]] by me (although I did not have anything to do with creating them) (link to the nom).  As of January 2008, the promotion rate for my nominations is about 44%:
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Image:Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg |[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait|Abraham Lincoln]]
Image:Tvashtarvideo.gif |[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tvashtarvideo|Tvashtar eruption]]
Image:The First Telegraph.jpg |[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The First Telegraph.jpg|The First Telegraph]]
Image:Cody-Buffalo-Bill-LOC.jpg |[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Buffalo Bill|Buffalo Bill]]
Image:Constitution_of_the_United_States,_page_1.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/United States Constitution|Constitution]]
Image:Sitting Bull - edit2.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sitting Bull|Sitting Bull.  My nom was cropped differently than the image that was ultimately promoted.]]
Image:Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Buchenwald slave laborers|Buchenwald slaves]]
Image:Hitlermusso2 edit.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hitler and Mussolini|Hitler and Mussolini]]
Image:Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mulberry Street, New York City|Mulberry Street, NYC]]
Image:John Wilkes Booth wanted poster new.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wanted!|John Wilkes Booth wanted poster]]
Image:Frederick Douglass (circa 1879).jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Frederick Douglass|Frederick Douglass]]
Image:Bombers of WW1.ogg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eddie Rickenbacker Bombs the Germans|U.S. aircraft in World War I]]
Image:Etna eruption seen from the International Space Station.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eruption of Mount Etna, seen from space|Mount Etna eruption]]
Image:Brandenburg Gate Quadriga at Night.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Brandenburg Gate Quadriga|Brandenburg Gate quadriga]]
Image:Stowe_Armorial.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grenville Diptych|Grenville Diptych]] ([[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/2008 (2)|FP for April Fools' Day 2008]]
Image:Arc Triomphe.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arc de Triomphe 2007]]
Image:Annie Oakley shooting glass balls, 1894.ogv|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Annie Oakley film clip|Annie Oakley]]
Image:DTI-sagittal-fibers.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Diffusion tensor imaging|Diffusion tensor imaging of brain]]
Image:Ireland from space edit.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ireland from space|Ireland from space]]
Image:Bombing of Hamburg.ogg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bombing of Hamburg (film)|Bombing of Hamburg]]
Image:Theodore Rooseveltnewtry.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rough Rider Roosevelt|Theodore Roosevelt]]
Image:Palmercarpenter.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carpenter (nomination 2)|Carpenter]]
Image:MESSENGER first photo of unseen side of mercury.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Unseen side of Mercury|Mercury]] (subsequently [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image:MESSENGER first photo of unseen side of mercury.jpg|delisted and replaced]]
Image:Challenger (STS-51-L) Explosion.ogg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Challenger disaster|Challenger disaster]] (subsequently [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Challenger (STS-51-L) Explosion|delisted]])
Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded edit2.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hurricane Katrina flooding (edit 1)|Hurricane Katrina flooding]]
Image:NGC4676.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mice galaxies|Mice galaxies]]
Image:Malcolm X NYWTS 2a.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Malcolm X|Malcolm X]]
Image:Somagahana Fuchiemon restored.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sumo|Sumo wrester]]
</gallery>

===My nominees to FPC that did not pass===
The following images were nominated by me for Featured Picture status but the nomination did not pass (explanation noted with link to the nom):
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Image:Reynoldsclub.JPG|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Reynolds Club at the University of Chicago|Tilt and color problems]]
Image:Forbidden fruit.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Forbidden Fruit|cropping]]
Image:Christus Ravenna Mosaic.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Christus (mosaic at Ravenna)|JPG artifacts; previously failed FPC nom]]
Image:Codex Mendoza folio 2r.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Codex Mendoza - Foundation of Tenochtitlan|Scan resolution and coloration]]
Image:Chicago Downtown Aerial View.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chicago from the air|Tilt, composition, haze, and pixelly]]
Image:Kamehameha I.png|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of Kamehameha I|Inferior portrait- a better one of same subject is available, but only in low-res scan.]]
Image:King Tut Ankh Amun Golden Mask 01.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/King Tut Mask|JPG artifacts, subject cut off on left]]
Image:Andrew johnson2.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Andrew Johnson|not much interest in the nom, photographer details undocumented, damage to photo]]
Image:Jean-Leon Gerome Pollice Verso.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pollice Verso|JPG artifacts]]
Image:It's A Wonderful Life.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/It's A Wonderful Life|technical problems]]
Image:William Tecumseh Sherman.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William Tecumseh Sherman|Nom resulted in a differnet photo of Sherman being featured instead.]]
Image:HarryHoudini-1899.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Harry Houdini|Image quality; also this appears to be a mirror image of the original.]]
Image:Burning Viet Cong base camp.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Burning Viet Cong base camp|Scratches on photo]]
Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded.jpg|<s>Too grainy</s> (new edit passed FPC)]]
Image:Wilhelm Keitel Kapitulation.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/V-E Day|Framing]]

Image:MSH82_st_helens_plume_from_harrys_ridge_05-19-82.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount St. Helens|Debris on image, better images of volcano available]]
Image:SearsHouse115.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sears Catalog Home|Scan quality/JPG artifacts; not unique]]
Image:Philly041907-004-GenosSteaks.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Geno's Steaks|Noise and grain]]
Image:Luggage - Japanese American internment.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Luggage of interned Japanese-Americans|Non-descript image, inferior composition]]
Image:Fleet 5 nations.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Five navies, ten warships|Noise, blurriness]]
Image:Satellite image of Cape peninsula.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cape of Good Hope|Fuzzy, vertical exaggeration]]
Image:CodexRunicus.jpeg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Codex Runicus|Bad crop]]
Image:SPSM.05.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/South Pole|Poor composition]]
Image:Immortal game animation.gif|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Immortal Game|No consensus]]
Image:Millerite 1843 chart.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The End is Near! (1843)|grainy]]
Image:PIA05553.gif|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Transit of Sun by Phobos|blurry, small]]
Image:Sivakempfort.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shiva statute, Bangalore|Previous failed nom, insufficiently hi-res]]
Image:Kennedy inauguration footage.ogg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kennedy inauguration|Film omits most famous part of speech]]
Image:Musée Picardie Archéo 03.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Priapus statuette|Cut and paste onto uninteresting background, not focused]]
Image:Campo de Criptana Molinos de Viento 1.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Windmills in La Mancha|inferior composition]]
Image:Abraham_Lincoln_giving_his_second_Inaugural_Address_(4_March_1865).jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lincoln's Second Inauguration|Blurry, Lincoln and Booth are hard to identify]]
Image:Island of Hawai'i - Landsat mosaic.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Big Island of Hawai'i|Unrealistic colors]]
Image:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_The_Ambassadors_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Holbein's "The Ambassadors"|Insufficiently high resolution]]
Image:A11v 1094228.ogv|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Magnificent Desolation|low-quality, no consensus]]
Image:Willmette how.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Baha'i temple|Image size]]
Image:Game of life animated glider.gif|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Game of Life glider|Too small, redundant of another Game of Life image]]
Image:Shiprock.snodgrass3.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shiprock|Tilted]]
Image:Elvis-nixon.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Elvis-Meets-Nixon|no consensus]]
Image:Meeting Royal 2007 02 06 n11.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ségo|Not quite sharp enough]]
File:35mm film audio macro.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Film audio|Needs cleanup]]
File:One More Step, Mr. Hands.jpg|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/One More Step, Mr. Hands, And I'll Blow Your Brains Out|Reflection of photographic flash on right side]]
File:Pentagon construct.gif|[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Construction of a regular pentagon|No consensus]]


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The following photographs were taken by me

===Ogunquit River===
[[Ogunquit River]] in [[Ogunquit, Maine]] at high tide and low tide
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Image:Ogunquit-river-low-tide (august 2006).jpg
Image:Ogunquit-river-high-tide (august 2006).jpg
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===Philadelphia===
<gallery>
Image:One liberty place.JPG 
Image:Academy of music.JPG
Image:Suburban station.JPG
Image:Philadelphia museum district.JPG
Image:Comcast center.JPG
Image:Girard-trust-building.jpg
Image:Northwest-center-city.jpg

Image:Kimmel center interior.JPG
Image:Kimmel-center.JPG
Image:Toynbee-1.jpg
Image:Toynbee-2.jpg
Image:Toynbee-3.jpg
Image:Two liberty place.JPG
Image:Union league.JPG

Image:Philadelphia City Hall south elevation.jpg
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===Chicago===
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Image:Chicago skyscrapers.jpg
Image:Aon-prudential.JPG 
Image:Marina towers.JPG 
Image:Chicago river with bridges.jpg 
Image:Max-palevsky-commons.JPG 
Image:Ivy_on_Chicago_University_campus_building.jpg 
Image:Reynoldsclub.JPG
Image:University-of-chicago-business-school-atrium.JPG

Image:Cloud-gate.JPG

Image:Kent hall university of chicago.JPG

</gallery>

===Other images===
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File:Newborn baby (May 7, 2005).jpg|Newborn infant
File:Palm trees in Santa Monica.JPG|palm trees in Santa Monica, California
Image:Santa-monica-sunset.JPG|Sunset in Santa Monica, California
Image:Villanova-oreo-1.jpg|"The Awakening", better known as "The Oreo"-- a sculpture on the campus of Villanova University.
Image:Villanova-oreo-2.jpg
Image:Villanova-oreo-3.jpg
Image:Garrett-hill-july-4.JPG
Image:Garrett-hill-july_4.JPG
Image:Roof leak at Taliesin West.jpg‎|Roof leaking at [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]'s office at [[Taliesin West]].
Image:View from Camelback Mountain 05-26-2008-A.jpg‎|View from [[Camelback Mountain]], Phoenix Arizona
Image:View from Camelback Mountain 05-26-2008.jpg‎|Another view from [[Camelback Mountain]], Phoenix Arizona
Image:Santa Barbara Pier 08-13-2007.jpg‎|[[Santa Barbara Pier]], Santa Barbara, California
Image:Lansdowne Herakles.JPG‎|Lansdowne Herakles, part of the collection of the [[Getty Villa]]
Image:Statue of zeus, getty museum, malibu california.JPG‎|Statue of Zeus, part of the collection of the [[Getty Villa]]
Image:Statutes of a Religious Association.JPG‎|Statutes of a religious association, part of the collection of the [[Getty Villa]]
Image:Pool at Getty Villa.JPG‎|[[Getty Villa]]
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