For #ThrowbackThursday I have a photo of Harbour Centre in Vancouver from my first day of using a DSLR back in 2007. What a difference from a film camera! A lot of the photos from that day were not great, but I still like this one quite a lot. Not sure that glass dome is even still there...

Blackie Spit at Crescent Beach with the skyline of Burnaby and the North Shore Mountains in the background - photographed in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #BritishColumbia #Mountains #MountainMonday #Panorama

Second Edition is here! With free global shipping. :D This is a huge deal for me. The publisher, Routledge, is highly prestigious with a focus on academic books and journals. To be included in their catalogue is an honour. And for the next five days, it’s 20% off. www.routledge.com/Macro-Photog...

Subalpine Fir and the wildflower covered slopes of the sub-alpine meadows area of Manning Park in BC, Canada. The Heather Lake fire (2022) burn scar is in the distance. #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Mountains #BritishColumbia #MountainMonday #NorthCascades #Canada #Photo #Photography

Baking cookies. I went outside so I set a timer on my phone. Incorrectly. By the time I figured this out the time was about 10 minutes past the 13 they should be in there for! A burned cookie calamity was only avoided because apparently I forgot to put the cookies in the oven in the first place. 🙄

This is called an African Wonder Flower, and that may be the most exciting and optimistic thing I've heard all week. Part of the fun for me is learning about each subject. We take reading for granted, but I think a lot about how it's changed my life. #flowers #photography 𝑂𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠

For #MountainMonday: Mount Cheam and the Fraser River in Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada. www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/mount-c... #FraserValley #BritishColumbia #Canada #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photo #River #Fall

People fishing for salmon along the banks of the Chilliwack River in British Columbia, Canada. I hope to return again this year for photographs of leaves and mountains. :) www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/assorte... #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #BritishColumbia #River #Fall #MountainMonday

In the last few days, some good monsoonal moisture finally made it to Southern California and brought clouds that the sun lit up as it set. :) alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/fos... #Sunset #LandscapePhotography #Monsoon #SanDiego #LagunaMountains #AnzaBorrego #Summer #SouthernCalifornia

For #WildlifeWednesday: A territorial dispute during nesting season between two Canada Geese in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. There were a lot of squabbles on the water that evening. #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #BritishColumbia #Photography #Photo

For #MountainMonday: Wildflowers including Buttercups and a few Lupines, add colour to a field at Derby Reach Regional Park with the Golden Ears (Mount Blanshard) in the background. #BritishColumbia #Canada #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Parks #FraserValley #Photo #Photography

For #WaterfallWednesday: A small waterfall along Poignant Creek on the slopes of Sumas Mountain in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. #Waterfalls #BritishColumbia #Canada #LandscapePhotography #LPW #Landscape #Photo #Photography

For #MonochromeMonday - a black and white Western Sword Fern that picked up some different light through the canopy of trees above it. www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/western... #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Photography #NaturePhotography #BritishColumbia #Nature #B&W

A Columbian Ground Squirrel hanging out next to its den. I made this photo over 10 years ago, and just visited the location again recently. Can anyone guess what park in the SW region of BC this was at? #Wildlife #WildlifeWednesday #Photography #Photo #NaturePhotography #Nature #BritishColumbia

"In Memoriam" I desperately wanted to get into the woods in this morning's fog, but I'm still recovering from my recent infection and hospital stay. So, here's an older shot from a few years back, about this time of year, and on a similarly foggy day. #Photography #Landscapes #Woodland #Trees

"Redemption" - my contribution the #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme of #Light

A young Eastern Cottontail (S. floridanus) eating Hawkesbeard stems in my backyard. Adults can be 44cm but this little one was only about 15cm (6 in)! www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/random-... #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

If you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage

Canadian Flag flies on the top of the Peace Tower at the Parliament Buildings' Centre Block building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. #CanadaDay #Canada #ElbowsUp

YES AND stop getting any information from ChatGPT or any other "AI" because pretty much all of it is inaccurate.

A purple glow in the sky after sunset lights a nice reflection of Mount Gatey, Clarke, Ratney in Alouette Lake - Golden Ears Park, Maple Ridge, BC. www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/a-trio-... #Mountains #Landscape #MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Reflection #Lake #BritishColumbia #Canada

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) drinking water from the edge of a birdbath. #Macro #MacroPhotography #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #Bees #BritishColumbia #Agriculture

View of Hope Mountain from the shore of Silver Lake Provincial Park near Hope, British Columbia, Canada. #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography #BritishColumbia

Green and purple aurora borealis rays over the Golden Ears (Mount Blanshard) from Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada - one year later during the "Auroraversary". :) #Aurora #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NightPhotography #BritishColumbia #MountainMonday

Copperline, Death Valley 2022 - one of my favorite sand dune photographs.

A scene from 2013 at the North Cascades and Blue Lake in Washington. The peaks on the right are called Early Winter Spires in the Liberty Bell group there. www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/liberty... #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Washington #Photo #Photography #MountainMonday

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.