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{{Barnstar|image=Barnstar-camera.png|text=What an incredible shot of Cayman's Seven Mile Beach! I have been there several times, but I have never seen such an amazing picture of the beach. I therefore salute you with the photographer's barnstar. - User:DrTall}}
I currently live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and work at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), an agency of the Canadian government. Recently back from a year in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, which was a great time!
I've edited many of the nuclear articles to contain some of the interesting tidbits I've come across in my job (primairly to do with CANDU or the Canadian fuel cycle, and all public-domain information, and all of course my views and not the CNSCs), or to make them more correct and/or complete. Of course any views I may express are purely my own and don't necessarily reflect the Government of Canada or CNSC's opinions.
I've also added bits into articles on canoe and kayak (a hobby of mine), the Iron Ring Clock (a former hobby of mine), and several National/Provincial parks I've visited (Algonquin park, Kejimkujik National Park). I created the pages for the Rideau Canoe Club (needs pictures!!), The Tent Dwellers (great book), Khodynka airfield (stayed for 2 weeks not 10 minutes away and never knew it existed) and a few other small ones (Nuclear Power Demonstrator, Douglas Point, Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park).
My pics are I think my best contributions (the barnstar was a nice surprise! thanks Dr. Tall!). A good pic makes an article great and Wikipedia is so much better for pictures than a paper encyclopedia. Everyone put up your pics! Below are what I've put up, in order of contribution. The panoramas are worth a look at full size...
|The Iron Ring Clock
Image:Sprint Boat C-15.jpg|War Canoe
Image:Clockread.jpg|How to read the clock
Image:Aug05 Algonquin NoWater.jpg|We lose the river in Algonquin Provincial Park
Image:Clock Team03.JPG|The IRC team...this pic since removed from the IRC page :(
File:Tent Dwellers title.png|The Tent Dwellers...a great book!
Image:TD02.jpg|Map from a great book!
Image:Algonquin Portage 2005.jpg|Walk in the woods, with canoes
Image:Saba 0432868.jpg|Saba...pretty nice looking place
Image:0602BigWhitePowderChair.jpg|One of the best pics I've ever taken, I think
Image:0602BigWhitePowderChute.jpg|Big White again...great hill
Image:TsarCannon.JPG|Tsar Pushka...biggest cannon in the world
Image:PhunParty01.JPG|Most phun ever
Image:Seven Mile Beach 2006.jpg|Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman...again should be seen full res
File:Hell Grand Cayman (1).JPG|The worst tourist attraction ever...Hell, Grand Cayman
Image:Green Sea Turtles Grand Cayman.JPG|Most of these will get eaten
Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|really fast little boat
Image:War_canoe_2.jpg|More war canoe
Image:HMCSStormont.jpg|HMCS Stormont, now the Christina O, one of the biggest yachts in the world
Image:LST Sicily.jpg|Can't remember why I put this one on
Image:MmmESCARGOT.jpg| Escargot in Versailles...delicious.
Image:Beny-sur-Mer_Cemetery.jpg|The Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery...I was waaaay to old to be in this place
Image:Ardennes Abbey 1.JPG|Nice place, sad history
Image:Ardennes Abbey 2.JPG|The sad bits
Image:Juno Wounded 3.jpg|Juno Beach
Image:Dunkerque Shell.JPG|A big bullet
File:The sarcophagus of Napoleon Bonaparte at Les Invalides, Paris.jpg|Big tomb for a small Napoleon
Image:Beaver dam in Algonquin Park.jpg|Beaver dam
Image:Iron Ring Certificate.JPG|Proof
File:Ice Climbing at Plattsburg, New York.jpg|Ice Climbing in NYS
Image:Picton Castle Toronto 2006.JPG|A terrible pic but apparently no one has better of the Picton Castle (ship)
Image:Climbing Luskville.jpg|Dave climbs hard in the Gatineau Park
Image:Shawangunk Trapps.jpg|Great climbing in the Gunks
Image:West coast trail ladder 2007.jpg|Everyone should hike the West Coast Trail
Image:West coast trail tsusiat falls.jpg|Tsusiat Falls on the WCT
Image:West Coast Trail Beach Hiking 2007.JPG|The crew on the WCT
File:Ardea picata 1.jpg|Random bird from the Adelaide Zoo
Image:Meerkats foraging.JPG|More zoo pics
Image:Camalot number 6.JPG|The safest SLCD ever
Image:Square egg.JPG|Delicious
File:Mount Arapiles Pano.jpg|Mount Arapiles...wikkid climbing!
Image:Abseil rappell pano.jpg|Abseil or Rappell...no one knows...
Image:Cooked Marron KI 2008.JPG| Marron, or tiny freshwater lobster, grilled...delicious.
Image:Marron KI 2008.JPG|those same marron, in a less delicious form.
Image:Fremantle Jail Cell Painting.JPG|painting in a cell at the Fremantle Prison
Image:Heysen Trail near Victor Harbour.JPG|The Heysen Trail near the start.
File:Heysen Trail near Waitpinga.jpg|Heysen Trail a bit further along.
Image:Morialta Toproping.JPG|Climbing at Morialta Conservation Park.
Image:Arapiles Organ Pipes.JPG|The Organ Pipes at Mount Arapiles.
Image:Climing anchor.JPG|An example of a climbing anchor.