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Useful links[edit]
- MVR review list is here
- QI link is here
- VI submission link is here
- VI review link is here
- FI review link is here
- Cache purge = CTRL+F5
- Commons:Photo challenge
Valued & Quality images to which I have contributed[edit]
Images taken by me[edit]
Minley Manor near Yateley
Memorial to Ernest Walton, Trinity College, Dublin
Coat of arms of the Dutch city of Nijmegen
Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi
Principia or administrative block of the Hardknott Roman Fort, Cumbria
Tretower Castle, a Grade I-listed twelfth century motte and bailey castle in Powys
Crickhowell Bridge, Wales
East portal of the now-abandoned Torpantau Tunnel in Powys, Wales.
Gable of All Saints Church, Fleet after the fire of 22 June 2015
Guildford Guildhall Clock (1683)
Sydney Harbour Bridge hinge at the southern end of the bridge.
The Shamrock', a sailing barge now maintained by the National Trust at Cotehele Quay.
Eighteenth Century cannon and tools at the Castle of Good Hope.
Liliesleaf main house - the ANC "safe house" which was raided in 1963 and resulted in the "Rivonia trial".
The Liliesleaf outbuildings, ostensibly the servant's quarters, but in reality the ANC offices.
Theology Seminary, Stellenbosch - af:Teologiese Kweekskool (Stellenbosch).
Domestic solar heater in Johannesburg that supplies hot water for the servant's quarters.
Differences in thermal conductivity demonstrated by snow melting on paving stones
Giraldillo, taken from the Real Alcazar (Seville).
Gnarled oak tree (Quercus) in The Valley Gardens, Windsor Great Park
Replica of the Giralda weathervane on Seville Cathederal
Alhambra from the Generalife
Generalife summer palace from the Alhambra (Granada).
Phillip V city gate, Ronda
War memorial, Béziers
Hôtel de Flottes de Sébasan, Pézenas, France
Marseillan Harbour
Pont Vieux, Carcassonne
Entrance to Marseillan in French and Occitan
Rue du Portail d'Amont, Faugères, a village in S. France
Hampshire File and Rescue Service fire engine
Beaulieu River tidal mudflats taken from Exbury Gardens
The South Phoenix Mine Engine House, Minions, Cornwall, which now houses the Minions Heritage Centre.
Exbury House near Southampton
Eelmoor Flash on the Basingstoke Canal
The Vyne under restoration
Elephants trunk wrestling in the Addo Elephant National Reserve.
Cricket umpires' on-field personal equipment
National Trust plaque at the start of the footpath up the Glyderau and the Devil's Kitchen in English and Welsh.
Powder Magazine at Stellenbosch, built by the VOC between 1776 and 1777
Kat Balcony, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Hindhead tunnel southern portal
Port ELizabeth City Hall
26 Metre dish, HartRAO, South Africa
Vergelegen homestead, Somerset West.
A tame (Cape Fur seal at the Hout Bay harbour.
Ceremonial acceptance of the key by the Castle of Good Hope guards to open the castle gate.
Entrance to the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
Equitorial sundial at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens.
The Cheesewring, a rock formation on Bodmin Moor
Groot Constantia, Cape Town
Cricket at Priory Park, Chichester
A selection of instruments calibrated in metric units.
Reed bed at Fleet Pond
Colenso Power Station (c 1973)
Orange Free State field gun captured in the Boer War, photographed in Perth, Australia.
Wight Ryder I - Portsmouth to Isle of Wight catamaran.
Polesdon Lacey from the west
Petworth House from the west
Henry VII's arms on the Market Cross, Chichester
Spiral staircase in the Well Tower of Caernarfon Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle from the south.
Dinas Emrysis strongly associated with the legend of y Ddraig Goch (the Welsh Red Dragon).
Fourth order Fresnel lense in situ in the Elizabeth Donkin lighthouse, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Australian Naval Ensign flying at half mast thereby making way for the "invisible flag of death".
The Carnival Spirit in Sydney Harbour, 2013
Flag of the Amsterdam Chapter of the Dutch East India Company
Reconciliation by Vasconcellos, Coventry Cathederal
Witches Scale, Oudewater
Vergelegen library & garden
Shanty town outside Caledon, South Africa
Flower of the Mimetes cucullatus taken at Kirstenbosch.
Heraldry above the entrance to the Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town)
18th Century VOC 2 lb cannon at Cape of Good Hope Castle
Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Architrave of the Lyme Regis Guildhall showing the borough's coat of arms
The Vyne (NW view), Hampshire
Graves of the victims of the Armoured Train cemetery - an action in which Churchill was captured.
Church at Croome D'Abitot, Worcs; a Grade I listed building.
Chinese Bridge at Croome Court (NT)
Milestone at Betws-y-Coed on Telford's Shrewsbury to Holyhead road.
Statue of Dom Pedro IV, Lisbon
Original definition of the kilometre
Old Scotney Castle, Kent (NT)
Weather vane on top of Tower of London
Great Windmill of Skerries, Ireland; An Irish National Monument
St Michael's Row, Chester; A grade II listed building
Yashica 635 TLR camera with telephoto lens and viewer
Kelvin/Celsius Thermometer. (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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Images taken by somebody else, but nominated by me[edit]
Langalibalele - King of the amaHlubi (1836-1889)
Classical Ammeter
"Narrow Candle" Catcus (via MVR)
St Isaacs Cathederal, St Petersburg (Replaced old VI via MVR)
White Rhinoseros (via MNR), Featured picture here.
Mouth of the Tugela River
Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay
Christuskirche, Windhoek, a noted landmark in Windhoek.
On the ridge of the Drakensberg amphitheatre, close to the lip of the Tugela Falls
SAR Class NG G11 NG55 (2-6-0+0-6-2) Garratt-type steam locomotive hauling a mixed train approaching Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal.
The famous speed record holding steam locomotive No. 4468 Mallard.
NZASM 46 tonner locomotive at Witbank.
Aerial view of the Victoria Falls
Conical tower, Zimbabwe ruins
Conical tower, Zimbabwe ruins
LNER 4472 "Flying Scotsman" at Leamington Spa
Road up the Sani Pass, South Africa heading towards the Lesotho border.
Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Denarius
Aerial view of Premier Mine, South Africa
Mount Kilimanjaro: photo taken in Moshi, Tanzania
Great Mosque of Djenné, en:Djenné, Mali
Dorze hut, Ethiopia
Water taxi in Mali
stage coach that ran between between Salisbury and Umtali (now Mutare), Southern Rhodesia
Pietermaritzburg City Hall, built 1893, rebuilt 1901 after a fire.
Grave of Cecil John Rhodes
Statue of Molly Malone on Grafton Street, Dublin
GNR Stirling 4-2-2 no. 1 at Doncaster Works
Einhard Basillica, Michelstadt-Steinbach. Einhard was a confidant and, according to local legend, son-in-law of Charlemagne
Hôtel de ville, Charleroi
Railway line across the Nullarbor plain - 478 km dead straight railway.
SW end of the 32.5 km Afsluitdijk near Den Oever (Netherlands). Friesland can be seen in the distance.
Clogwyn railway station, (779 m above sea level) the pen-ultimate station of the 6.4 km Snowdon Mountain Railway
Cecil (John) Rhodes (1853-1902)
Niels Bohr Commemoration Meeting, 1963 featuring at least seven Nobel laureates
Silicon sphere from the Avogadro Project
Replica of the Batavia at sea.
Strokkur geyser (about 50 metres from the now dormant Great Geysir) erupting.
HMS Illustrious returning to port.
Peace Palace (1907), The Hague
Swiss Class Ce 6/8 II articulated crocodile electric locomotive
Outeniqua Choo Tjoe crossing the Kaaimans River bridge
Indian Ambulance Corps during the Boer War. Gandhi is in the middle of the middle row.
Bayeux Tapestry - Scene 57: the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings
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