User:Charlesjsharp - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Featured pictures on English Wikipedia 2 Animal galleries 3 Future FP nominations 4 Signpost and Tree of Life Toggle Signpost and Tree of Life subsection 4.1 Signpost Article 4.2 Tree of Life Interview 4.3 Signpost Interview 5 stamp collecting 6 Image on a postage stamp Toggle the table of contents User:Charlesjsharp Add languages User page Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes User contributions User logs View user groups Upload file Permanent link Page information Get shortened URL Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This user is from Scotland. enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 8 months and 20 days. 16,000+This user has made more than 16,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has visited 114 countries. This editor is a Grandmaster Editor and is entitled to display this Lapis Philosophorum Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar. Wildlife portrait photographer from the UK. My web site: sharp photography I have been lucky enough to travel to many places outside the UK with camera in hand. Memories are easier to recall when you have a picture to remind you. Here are some 120 of mine. I have published a photographic guide to the butterflies of Ghana which is available as a free download. A print version will be published later in 2026. download pdf (46Mb) Sharp, Charles J; Sáfián, Sz (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana (PDF). Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6. The first five editions of my free magazine offer photography tips and promote Wikipedia. The Read online links take you to a flipbook. Click text to read Issue Eight online Click text to read Issue Seven online Click text to read Issue Six online Click text to read Issue Five online Click text to read Issue Four online Click text to read Issue Three online Click text to read Issue Two online Click text to read Issue One online You can access downloadable pdf versions by visiting the A Sharp Eye on wildlife photography page. The following link is to the children's edition of the December 2024 issue of A Sharp Eye on Wildlife Photography on Oceania. Click text for children's edition Please feel free to use any of the wildlife photos that I have uploaded, most of which are used in Wikipedia articles, with attribution Charles J Sharp. Please remember that images uploaded before 2020 may not have been processed with the latest software. I can quickly re-process them for you. Here are my own favourites, my Commons Featured pictures (667 from 87 countries), Quality images and Valued images The animals were not photographed in zoos, safari parks, rescue centres, butterfly houses, in captivity or in a studio. Many of the images are geocoded with very precise geocodes (six decimal places). Please do not take account of more than two decimal places. Featured pictures on English Wikipedia[edit] Galleries of my 399 Featured Pictures mammals birds insects, crabs and spiders reptiles, frogs and fish These featured pictures were taken in 81 countries: Albania Argentina Australia Austria Bahrain Belgium Belize Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Cambodia Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Denmark Ecuador Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji France Gambia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Jamaica Jordan Kenya Laos Liechtenstein North Macedonia Madagascar Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal New Zealand Norway Panama Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Rwanda Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Türkiye Uganda United Kingdom Uruguay Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe Animal galleries[edit] Broadest biogeographic division of Earth Map of the world's biogeographic realms.   Nearctic   Neotropical   Palearctic   Afrotropical   Indomalayan   Australasian (part of Oceania)   Oceanian (part of Oceania) Animal galleries from the world's Biogeographic Realms Neotropical Realmː Caribbean, Central and South America. Western Palearcticː Europe, North Africa and the Near East (the western half of the Palearctic Realm). Afrotropical Realmː Africa south of the Sahara and the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Indomalayan Realmː Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia. Oceaniaː includes the Australasian Realm and the Oceanian Realm. Mammal galleries 51 mammal species from the Neotropical Realm 34 mammal species from the Western Palearctic 119 mammal species from the Afrotropical Realm 51 mammal species from the Indomalayan Realm 20 mammal species from Oceania Bird galleries 588 bird species from the Neotropical Realm 235 bird species from the Western Palearctic 360 bird species from the Afrotropical Realm 194 bird species from the Indomalayan Realm 151 bird species from Oceania Butterfly galleries 268 butterfly species from the Neotropical Realm 161 butterfly species from the Western Palearctic 260 butterfly species from the Afrotropical Realm 182 butterfly species from the Indomalayan Realm 15 butterfly species from Oceania Dragonfly galleries 46 dragonfly species from the Neotropical Realm 52 dragonfly species from the Western Palearctic 50 dragonfly species from the Afrotropical Realm 62 dragonfly species from the Indomalayan Realm 15 dragonfly species from Oceania Future FP nominations[edit] Anyone is welcome to nominate these images 2 set Signpost and Tree of Life[edit] Signpost Article[edit] May 2020: Gallery of images from new magazine - A Sharp Eye on wildlife photography Tree of Life Interview[edit] August 2019: Interview for Tree of Life July 1-31 (Editor spotlight: Photographing the tree of life) Signpost Interview[edit] December 2017 Interview for The Signpost, 18 December 2017 stamp collecting[edit] Collecting US Classics Image on a postage stamp[edit] India Post 2016 (used without permission) I have also visited these 33 countries: Algeria Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Canada Czech Republic Dominica Egypt Finland Italy Japan Latvia Lesotho Libya Malta Monaco Netherlands Oman Palau Peru Russia (& USSR) Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia San Marino South Korea Sweden Tanzania USA Uzbekistan Vatican City Venezuela I have photography visits planned to these countries in 2026/27: Tanzania Canada USA Egypt Barbados Guyana Suriname Dominican Republic Finland Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Charlesjsharp&oldid=1363121034" Categories: Scottish Wikipedians User en-N User fr-2 Wikipedians interested in travelling This page was last edited on 8 July 2026, at 04:30 (UTC). 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