Bill Pusztai
LightNews LightNews
banner
billpusztai.bsky.social
Bill Pusztai
@billpusztai.bsky.social
250 followers 48 following 400 posts
Photographer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is my antetenebris account; for the other one, DM me. No slop.

billpusztai.com

Header photo: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025.
Posts Replies Media Videos
billpusztai.bsky.social
#Paeonia Itoh 'Bartzella', Roger Anderson, introduced mid-1980s.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
White backgroiund. On a white bench stands a Song-dynasty-guan-shape vase, sage green crackle glazed, shiny with bright specular reflections. In it are two fully open flowers. Each flower is large and semi-double, with petals that are pale yellow deepening to gold, with red at the throat. The pistils are deep green and the stamens are many and yellow (falling, here). On the surface of the bench are the parts of another flower that has fallen apart.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Rainy spring, Osoyoos, BC, Canada.
#landscape #cloud #fog #mist
Taken during a very wet spring, when Osoyoos Lake flooded enough to cover the highway. We're looking at a mountainous ridge known as Anarchist Mountain, through gaps in the clouds. What we see of the mountain is a silhouetted floating island with open forests, surrounded by dramatic cloudscapes. Nsyilxcən peoples, presently Osoyoos Indian Band.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
#Tilia, linden
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Looking up from face height into a grove of linden trees just beginning to leaf out in the bright spring sunlight (I say linden generically as these were planted by people some 40 years ago and are most likely hybrids of T. europaea or T. cordata). It's taken with a wide angle lens deliberately used to create a circular composition with the trunk linear elements converging on the center. There is strong blue colour shifting at the edge of the circular image. The sun is at about 2:00 if this were a clock face. Strathcona, Vancouver, BC, Canada. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Flower of #Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher-plant.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a white background. A complicated flower. The reproductive parts are in the middle, concelaed by a structure of five tough inward-curving bright green calyxes growing at 45 degrees to the ground, between which grow five bright yellow linear-ovate petals that droop down.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Mount Gladstone, pullout at (49.201717, -118.112496), British Columbia, Canada
#landscape #forest #autumn #photography
Looking across a valley toward a low mountain. The nearby slopes are densely wooded with confiers including larch, which is turning pale yellow. Mt Gladstone in the distance is sparsely forested and showing snow in the dips and on the shaded side. The sky is sunnny/cloudy and the cloud shadows lay across the hills. Ktunaxa (Kootenay) First Nation, Nsyilxcən (Syilx Okanagan) speaking people, and Secwépemc (Shushwap) people shared this area.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
#Narcissus 'Bridal Crown', an older cultivar not registered with KAVB. Various sources suggest J. Schoorl, the Netherlands, pre-1949. This sort of information has become terribly polluted with slop though.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
A pot of forced tazetta narcissus. A couple of stems are in full bloom, many others are in bud. The open flowers are very double, with a boss of white and yellow petals and pseudopetals in the center. White background.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
#Rubus parviflorus, thimbleberry
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Against a couple of large vibrant green leaves a fruiting stem with two ripe, one unripe, and one aborted thimbleberry. The ripe ones are make up or many sparkling red druplets, each containing a seed, arranged like a flatter broader version of a cultivated raspberry. The unripe ones is still green.
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Arnica cordifolia, heartleaf arnica
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a background of blurry green leaves, a single composite flower. The rays are yellow and ovate, the disc flowers tiny and golden. It was raining and the flower was wet.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Gravestones, Aoyama cemetery, Tokyo, Japan.
#photography #travel #japan
A black and white photo of a group of standing stones and finished granite enclosures with well-tended tiny gardens and vases of flowers. The central stone is inscribed 鈴木家之墓. My respects to the people buried here and their families.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Prunus cerasus 'Meteor', sour cherry. Released by University of Minnesota (UFOR) in 1952.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
A cluster of newly-opened cherry blossoms with pure white petals and golden pollen. Background is blurred out orchard.
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
A pair of paper parasols.
#stillife #photography #sunlight
A tall expanse of white backdrop, on the ground, a pair of open white paper parasols. An obling of sunlight is coming in through a high window, falling across the backdrop and touching on the parasols, which are somewhat translucent.
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
#Ludisia discolor
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a black BG a spike of tiny flowers, two of which are fully open; the petals and sepals are pure sparkly white with small reddish distal patches on a couple of them. L. discolor is mostly grown for its leaves, which are deeply coloured and sparkly, but it also has these charming blooms. As you see the column (the yellow bit in the middle) looks a bit askew - the entire flower is "non resupinate" ("not lying down") - most orchids have bilaterally symmetrical flowers with the labellum at the bottom and the column above it, but here the labellum is skewed and the flower is asymmetrical. More info at https://hermetospheres.com/2025/05/03/the-orchid-flower-that-lost-its-symmetry/
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Hippeastrum 'Tosca' amaryllis (Kwekerij de Oudendam B.V., 2010)
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a light grey background, a typical Hippeastrum inflorescence with one flower facing us directly and the others facing to the side and away. The petals are base white but with heavy spotting and splashes of vibrant orange-red.
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
First snow, Yellowhead Highway east of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
#landscape #autumn #winter #snow #paddock
First snowfall on a short expanse of mown field, and behind that, a forest wall of deep green young conifers, and alders and aspen, with ghostlike silvery trunks and some still holding their yellow leaves. The sky shades into white. Lheidli T'enneh First Nation territory.
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Dawn coming up over mudflats, Clayoquot Sound, Meares Island, and the mainland. Mudflats Wildlife Management Area, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht #HotelZed
An image showing the mudflats, nearby trees, dark water, forest in the distance, and mountains. The sky is radiant, pink orange and purple clouds, and the light suffuses the whole landscape. There are fog banks, low clouds, and mist. A couple of seagulls are flying.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Night time panorama of the super moon coming up over mudflats, Clayoquot Sound, Meares Island, and the mainland. Mudflats Wildlife Management Area, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht #night #moon
We're sitting on a dock looking out over a night landscape. The tide is out so the mudflats are glistening in the moonlight. An islet and Meares Island are silhouetted and in the distance is the mainland. The moon is only about 10 degrees above the horizon and a few motion-blurred stars are visible. Traditional territory of ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) First Nations people.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
On the ferry from Swartz Bay to Tsawassen, between Victoria and Vancouver BC Canada.
#landscape #seascape #lowkey #grey #fog
Stitched pano showing a low contrast image of the sea with successive levels of headland and islands receding into grey mists in the distance. The sky is cloudy and the light is diffuse and blue. The sea is calm. On the ferry from Swartz Bay to Tsawassen (coast Salish peoples). This kind of foggy-islands-receding-into-the-distance was a primary image of BC for a lot of people my age who lived far away, thanks to the work of artists Peter & Traudl Markgraf (https://artshudson.org/1412/artistmarkgraf1412.shtml).
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
A goat sitting on a Goat Display Platform, Old Country Market / Goats on Roof, Coombs, BC, Canada.
#photography #tourism #vancouverisland #goat
In Coombs there is a business built with a sod roof. It's extremely touristy but also has a real function as a market. Anyway the goats grazing the roof are a primary attraction for tourists. And they know it. Traditional territory of K'ómox (Comox) First Nations people.
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Kennedy Lake Provincial Park, Alberni-Clayoquot, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht
A view across the lake, stiched vertical panorama. We're standing on a shore at the top of a flat that's used as a boat launch wheh the water is lower. Water goes from the bottom of the frame to the mountains in the distance. Nearby we can see gravel through the water, and some dead plant stems are standing up though it. A bit further away the reflection from the sky and mountains takes over. The light was this soft hazy blue, very beautiful. Traditional territory of ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) First Nations people. From the same place, looking in a different direction. Stony beach in the foreground, then some shrubs that are on dry land during part of the year but now are flooded. Further away, mountains. Another view with plant stems in the foreground reflected in flooded water, mountains in the distance. Another view with shrubs.
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
First Street dock, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht
A stitched pano showing a dock that serves the water taxi and the float plane shown. In the medium distance a fishing boat, another dock, and some dockside buildings. In the far discance, Meares Island. Meares Island and the surrounding lands (sometimes referred to as "Clayoquot Sound") were at the centre of an ecological and First Nations rights protest / court battle that became a cause celebre around the world in the mid 1980s into the 1990s. There were innumerable protesters, court battles, and celebrity call-outs, and it got a lot of air time. It was pivotal to how the courts approach ecological and First Nations issues now, probably the first time in the last 200 years that the Crown and the Corporations were successfully challenged on a large scale. The house that we live in - in Vancouver - was the childhood home of one of the judges involved. In many cases he sided with the Province and the logging corporations, but he was also a part of many judgements that asked courts to interpret treaties and contracts in favour of First Nations by understanding them in the terms that the FN would have understood them at the time, and honouring the idea of continuous habitation as overriding Crown possession of lands that were not in fact unoccupied. It seems milquetoast today, but at the time it was a radical departure from how the colonial legal system had functioned in the past. Traditional territory of ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) First Nations people.
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Supermoon rising, Tin Wis (Chesterman) Beach, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht
Full moon rising, just above tree silhouettes. Shady shapes of trees and building can be seen below, lit by the very last light from the western sky.
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Last gasp of the sunset, Tin Wis (Chesterman) Beach, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht
Stitched pano. Looking south along the beach. In the distance, headlands, nearer, incoming tide wetting the piles of kelp on the sand. The light is predominantly blue/pink/purple. Traditional territory of ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) First Nations people.
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Sunset, Tin Wis (Chesterman) Beach, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht #sunset
Looking out toward some islands just offshore - silhouetted rock and trees. A few people are wandering on the near shore, watching the sunset. The colours are low and saturated dusky pinks and oranges fading into purple and blue. Traditional territory of ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) First Nations people. Looking towrds the sun - trees and rocks and buildings in silhouette, the sun bouncing off streams and pools on the sand Looking towards the sun - trees and rocks and in silhouette, the sun bouncing off streams and pools on the sand Looking towrds the sun - trees and rocks in silhouette, the sun bouncing off streams and pools on the sand.
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Tin Wis (Chesterman) Beach, Tofino, BC, Canada.
#photography #panorama #landscape #Tlaoquiaht
A long narrow stitched panorama of the beach, looking more or less west, concentrating on the north end of the beach. Just off center is the setting sun, and the whole skyline is glowing deep ornage. To the left edge of the pano is a rock outcrop with a log lodged on it; three people are silhouetteed, sitting on the log. The low sunlight is boucing off pooled water and wet sand. Traditional territory of ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) First Nations people.
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Cathedral Grove in MacMillan Provincial Park, BC, Canada.

#photography #landscape #travel #forest
Two stiched panos The first is from the forest floor looking up into the canopy - this forest includes enormous ancient Douglas firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii), some cedar trees (Thuja plicata), and big leaf maples (Acer macrophyllum), draped in Old Man's Beard lichens (Usnea sp). The understory includes Vine Maple (Acer circinatum) and Alder (Alnus) species. On the ground are Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), Sword Fern (Polystichium munitum), and highlighted in the center of this image, Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus). The second is a very long very tall vertical pano showing the awesome height of individual trees, with a tiny yellow dot at the base - a person, for scale. And these trees are considered young, others are a great deal taller and wider. Traditional territory of Kʼómoks (Comox, Kwakwaka'wakw affiliated), Tseshahta (Nuu-chah-nulth affilliated), and Te’mexw Treaty Association peoples. Two stiched panos The first is from the forest floor looking up into the canopy - this forest includes enormous ancient Douglas firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii), some cedar trees (Thuja plicata), and big leaf maples (Acer macrophyllum), draped in Old Man's Beard lichens (Usnea sp). The understory includes Vine Maple (Acer circinatum) and Alder (Alnus) species. On the ground are Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), Sword Fern (Polystichium munitum), and highlighted in the center of this image, Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus). The second is a very long very tall vertical pano showing the awesome height of individual trees, with a tiny yellow dot at the base - a person, for scale. And these trees are considered young, others are a great deal taller and wider. Traditional territory of Kʼómoks (Comox, Kwakwaka'wakw affiliated), Tseshahta (Nuu-chah-nulth affilliated), and Te’mexw Treaty Association peoples.
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM