User:Jjron

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My most recent Featured Picture nomination, a highly encyclopaedic photo of fruit formation in a typical drupe, the nectarine, Prunus persica. You can see the nomination and cast a vote on the FPC page, or see just 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 for quite a while before I started contributing, 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 nine 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] Featured Picture contributions

I am a regular voter in the Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates project.

[edit] My Featured Pictures

• I have had thirteen of my photos promoted to a Featured Picture. They are displayed below, with links to their nominations in bold:

1. Tulips at Floriade, Canberra, ACT, in 2005.
2. Metung Wharf panorama at Metung on Bancroft Bay, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
3. Melbourne Docklands pano showing the Docklands and city skyline, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
4. Japanese Gardens, Cowra pano from the Symbolic Mountain at the gardens in Cowra, NSW.
5. Fuel Dumping (dump-and-burn) by a RAAF F-111.
6. Camel, a dromedary camel taken near Silverton, NSW.
7. Hereford Calf at SC, Victoria, Australia.
8. Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) panicle at SC, Victoria, Australia.
9. Broken Hill, NSW backed by the man-made mullock heaps from the Line of Lode Mine.
10. Eastern Bearded Dragon, (Pogona barbata) taken at Healesville, Victoria, Australia.
11. Brolga (Grus rubicunda) taken at Healesville, Victoria.
12. Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) taken in Victoria, Australia.
13. Camouflaged Common Snakeneck Turtle (Chelodina longicollis) taken in Victoria, Australia.

[edit] Work on other's Featured Pictures

• I have had five of my nominations of other people's pictures promoted to a Featured Picture:

1. Historic Flinders St Station, Melbourne
2. Lillian Gish (also edited prior to nom)
3. Sun Dogs (also edited prior to nom)
4. Wayne Gretzky
5. Bicolored Antbird

• I have had seven of my edits of other user's pictures promoted to a Featured Picture:

1. Dried Seahorse
2. Marmot
3. Humpback Whales Feeding
4. Gold dust day gecko
5. Pancratium zeylanicum flower
6. Chris Young at Wrigley Field
7. The Trinity Nuclear Test, 1945

[edit] Reference Desk contributions

I also contribute to the Wikipedia Reference Desks on a regular basis.

• The Science Reference Desk very regularly.
• The Miscellaneous Reference Desk quite regularly.
• The Computing Reference Desk occasionally.
• And the other Wikipedia Reference Desks almost never.

[edit] Awards

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For all your edits I give you a barnstar. Bewareofdog 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

		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)

		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)

		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)

		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)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Awarded to Jjron for ferreting out a pernicious sockpuppet. Matt Deres (talk) 23:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

		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

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)

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