Hi, I am Muhammad Mahdi Karim, a photographer living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I am interested in digital photography especially in macro photography and panoramas. You can contact me by email or via my talk page.
My website http://www.micro2macro.net/ has a gallery of my images. Visit www.facebook.com/micro2macro, for regular updates and latest pictures.
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My Pictures
Featured Pictures
My Featured pictures.Currently 152 featured pictures. Displaying newest to oldest.
- Red Weaver ant, Oecophylla longinoda in Morogoro, Tanzania
- Lophyra sp. Tiger beetle pictured in Kibaha, Tanzania
- Rock Pigeon, Columba livia, Bangalore India
- Red Weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina in Bangalore, India
- Bangles on display in Bangalore, India
- Female Telamonia dimidiata in the Lalbagh Botanical gardens, Bangalore, India
- Police Commissioner Suleiman Kova answers and addresses the media at ground zero near the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse
- Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qum, Iran
- Indian Olympic athlete, Irfan Kolothum Thodi
- Young male impala
- Grammodes geometrica, Bangalore, India
- Mumtaz Ahmed Khan founder of Al-Ameen Educational Society
- Papilio polytes, mating.
- A natural beehive of Apis dorsata, The Giant Honey Bee. The bottom right part of the hive shows a few unoccupied honeycombs
- The Mafa Grizzled Skipper, Spialia mafa in the Ngorongoro Crater
- Common Leopard Phalanta phalantha
- Baobab, Adansonia digitata
- Al-Ameen College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, India
- Kumar Anish, Indian yoga specialist
- Asfi Masjid at the Bara Imambara complex, Lukcnow, India
- Chhota Imambara, Lucknow, India
- Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah, Agra, India
- Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah, Agra, India,
- Salman Khurshid, Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress
- Indian palm squirrel, Bangalore, India
- A female African Bush Elephant raises her trunk as a warning sign
- Alstroemeria x hybrida Peruvian Lily
- A Giraffe in the Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
- Marabou stork, Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
- Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus) Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
- Adult Long-tailed Fiscals, Lanius cabanisi, Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
- Female Impala in the Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
- A female African Bush Elephant in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
- Male Impalas lock horns and fight during rutting. Pictured in Mikumi National Park
- Papilio demoleus Lime butterfly
- A Dhow in the Indian Ocean. Crew members pull the ropes to adjust sails.
- A Plains Zebra, Equus quagga in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania
- A Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
- An Olive baboon (Papio anubis) in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania
- A reproductive cone of endangered Cycad Encephalartos sclavoi
- Sceliphron spirifex wasp
- An adult monkey, the Olive Baboon, grooms a kid
- Coreidae, Squash bug
- Arctiidae family caterpillar
- Avocado and its cross section
- Mating flesh flies
- Dharmaraya Swamy Temple a Hindu temple in Bangalore
- Trachylepis striata skink
- Two Plectroctena sp. ants fighting.
- Mating skinks, Trachylepis maculilabris
- A giraffe feeding
- Sugar apple with cross-section
- The housefly, Musca domestica
- Aerial view of Mt Kilimanjaro
- Culex sp mosuito
- A scavenger fly, Sarcophaga sp
- Jumping spider with captured Ant
- Size 10 Sandals for men
- Bengalia sp
- Wolf spider with egg sac
- Unpeeled and peeled Rambutan
- Chrysomeloidea Long horned beetle
- Zebra portrait
- Traditional Chaga hut
- Bank of Tanzania, in charge of the Tanzanian shilling
- Close up view of a Cheetah cub
- A Zanzibarian Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Geochelone gigantea)
- French Marigold, Tagetes patula
- Phaneroptera sp katydid
- Bembix sp sand wasp
- Charaxes brutus natalensis butterfly
- Female Orthetrum chrysostigma
- Pelopidas sp. skipper
- Female Ceriagrion glabrum
- Male Ceriagrion glabrum
- Portrait of a juvenile House sparrow
- Homoneura sp. mating
- Sunflower disk florets
- Tachysphex sp. wasp
- Roasted Pistachio
- Graphium caterpillar
- Camponotus sp. ant
- Polistes sp wasp with its nest
- Ampulex compressa, Emerald cockroach wasp
- Chrysopilus Snipe fly
- Citrus Swallowtail , Papilio demodocus
- Ichneumonidae mating
- Chrysosoma sp, Dolichopodidae commonly called long-legged flies
- Craticulina sp, a parasite of the sand wasp
- Sarcophaga Bercaea sp feeding on animal feces
- Chrysomya megacephala feeding on animal feces
- Tanzanian Muslims in Dar es Salaam protesting Operation Cast Lead
- Black soldier flies Hermetia illucens mating
- Chrysomya albiceps feeding on rotting meat
- Houseflies mating
- Rooster portrait
Pictures Edited by Me
Awards
Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. |
Well Done! --Fir0002 |
| THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLACKBELT | |
I hereby award Mr. Karim this Photographers Blackbelt for his outstanding and excellent pictures. • Richard Bartz • [®] • 17:07, 14 June 2009 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
You have brought us beautiful images of the flora and fauna of parts of the world systematically under-represented on Wikipedia. Please carry on! de Bivort 07:37, 23 May 2009 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
Nice pics --Extra 999 (Contact me + contribs) 11:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | |
For your excellent photographic contributions to Wikipedia (and the world). Keep up the good work! KFP (contact - edits) 19:28, 7 October 2011 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | |
Hi Muhammad, you already know, that I really like your outstanding pictures. And I wanted to try out the hearth in the tool bar. So here is a Barnstar that you really deserve.-cu Sven Sven.petersen (talk) 11:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
For consistently excellent work Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates contributing quality nominees, countering systemic bias, and setting the standard for congenial reviews and discourse. You've long since earned this barnstar. DurovaCharge! 04:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
You have taken many great pictures. One is even featured on the main page today! Nice job! Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) T/S 01:11, 26 April 2011 (UTC) |
The Resilient Barnstar | ||
For the continuing of your great work at FP process in spite of many unfair reviews --Mbz1 (talk) 15:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
Thank you for all your images Spongie555 (talk) 04:16, 7 October 2010 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
For your numerous recent photo contributions. Pinetalk 10:12, 16 August 2011 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
I like all of your pictures. I appreciate your work. Kudos Karim.... Surya Prakash.S.A. (talk) 17:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC) |
| The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
For your kind readiness always to help out I am awarding you with this barnstar. Mbz1 (talk) 14:11, 7 February 2011 (UTC) |
The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar | ||
For your valuable images on butterflies, moths and early stage, I award you this WikiProject Lepidoptera barnstar! AshLin (talk) 05:15, 12 May 2011 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | |
Asalam o alaikum, Muhammad, You own a gifted skill, keep it up. Dr. Mazar (Cuba) Big101big (talk) 04:46, 18 December 2011 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | |
excellent job....you are doing very wel...keep it up...i lyk ur work...:)) Asna Ahmed (talk) 11:44, 19 December 2011 (UTC) |
Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan | |
Hello Mahdi Karim, Thank you very much for being part of Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan jury. Your help and assistance is very much appreciated. We're proud to have such a great Wikipedian and a talented photographer. With love from Pakistan. Thank you! Saqib (talk) 15:49, 21 October 2014 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | |
Great job bro!! The herald 15:17, 30 October 2014 (UTC) |
The India Star | ||
Dear Muhammad, this one is for two FPs on India - Bangles & the Red Weaver ant. AshLin (talk) 14:05, 17 November 2014 (UTC) |