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Andrew Flenniken
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🇨🇦 expat and Seattle-based photographer working in shows, fine art, portraiture, and events.

I post about what I've been working on, and what I've been seeing in the world.

I sell prints of some of my work from my site: andrewflenniken.com
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As I did last year, I accompanied some friends out to the Olympic Peninsula to catch the tail end of autumn...

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#Photography #OlympicPeninsula #Autumn #Waterfall #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. A thin white waterfall flows down from the top of the photo, over dark brown rocks dotted with small plants. At mid frame it goes behind the rock, only to appear again in the bottom third. It is surrounded by trees in various autumnal hues: yellow, gold, and orange, with s scattering of tall evergreens interspersed.
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Happy Halloween!

I took this shot up at Tipsoo Lake the other week and, as soon as I did, I knew it would be the photo I'd post today.

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#Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotogrpahy #TipsooLake #Spooky #Halloween #Nikon #NikonCreators
Black and white photo. In the top half of the frame there is a snowy slope, dotted with small dark trees, surrounded by dark trees on all sides. In the middle of this snow field is a tall cluster of dark trees. The bottom half of the frame is water, in which the top half is mirrored.
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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A few more from my trip to Mount Rainier National Park a couple of weeks ago...

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#Photography #MountRainier #MountRainierNationalPark #WhiteRiver #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. At the bottom of the frame, the rocky bed of the White River, receding towards the upper right at mid-frame, lined on either side by tall evergreens. One the left a forested slope rises up quickly. In the distance is Mount Rainier, capped in lenticular clouds. The Emmons Glacier, source of the White River, is visible on the mountain's flank.
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Last week was all about color, and this week is all about black & white...

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#Photography #MountRainier #BlackAndWhitePhotography #TipsooLake #Nikon #NikonCreators
Black and white photo. Tipsoo Lake, seen from the shore, surrounded by a thin layer of snow, from which short grass pokes through in many places. The far shore is lined with tall dark evergreens. Beyond, on the right, snow-capped Mount Rainier rises above the trees. Above it are streaks of wispy cloud. On the left, the sky is dominated by forming lenticular clouds, their edges glowing from the unseen sun behind them. The trees, mountain and clouds are reflected in the lake, only slightly disturbed by shallow ripples.
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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It’s been a couple of years since I made it down to Mount Rainier National Park, and I wanted to do so before they closed the highway on the east side...

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#Photography #Autumn #MountRainier #TipsooLake #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. At the bottom, short trees with leaves of blazing orange and red. Beyond them are tall green pines. Receding into the distance is a valley with pine covered slopes. At the end of the valley is Mount Rainier, its peak covered in snow and a lenticular cloud hovers over it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Light filtering through leaves? One of my favorite things.

Light filtering through autumn leaves? Even better.

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#Photography #Autumn #Leaves #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. A thin branch, growing from left to right across the frame. On it are numerous red leaves with yellow veins, backlit and glowing by the unseen sun. In the background are soft circles of green and white.
October 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The days are getting shorter, the leaves are changing, and the sun increasingly gives way to clouds.  So long as there are flowers in bloom, though...

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#Photography #MacroPhotography #TinyTuesday #Bees #Flowers #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color macro photo. A bee collecting pollen from a flower. The bee is black and yellow, with some white bands on it's abdomen. It is dusted all over with yellow grains of pollen. The flower is purple, with many long thin petals, and a yellow center.
October 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We tend to focus a lot on tree leaves changing, for obvious reasons, but in early Autumn I often find myself drawn to the late summer flowers...

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#Photography #MacroPhotography #Flowers #Autumn #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color macro photo. The frame is filled with small flowers. Each has a yellow center and is surrounded by long, thin petals. Many petals have faded to white, but the ones that haven't go from pale purple up to vibrant indigo.
October 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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It's October 1st, which means it is well and truly spooky season. In honor of which, please enjoy this very tiny spider.

Gear: Nikon Z 7II, Nikon 105mm f2.8 VR Macro

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#Photography #MacroPhotography #JumpingSpider #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color macro photo. A tiny black and white jumping spider is seen standing on a rocky surface, looking at the camera. It's two large central eyes are very prominent, as are its fuzzy white chelicerae. Its four front legs are clearly visible.
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Fun, impromptu with a dear friend who decided that, given it’s now September, we are now in Spooky Season and the Purple Bat Dress needed to come out.

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#Photography #Portrait #PortraitPhotography #Nikon #NikonCreators #SpookySeason
Color photo. A woman with long, curly gray hair. She's wearing a purple dress with black bats on it, a black belt, and a necklace with a black and silver pendant. Her left hand is on her hip, and her right hand is holding up the side of her dress. She's smiling.
September 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Late August means shorter days and, apparently, shorter dogs...

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#Photography #EmeraldDowns #WienerDog #Dachshund #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. A man in a blue shirt, squatting down. He is holding a tan long hair dachshund in both hands above a blue and white starting line on a dirt race track. The dog is barking.
August 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I took this photo of a friend and her friend’s daughter a couple of weeks ago, while out with them doing some tide-pooling...

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#Photography #Beach #Portrait #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. An adult and a child standing next to each other in shallow water. A small wave is about to break in front of them. The child, barely more than a toddler, has shoulder length blonde hair. They are wearing pink shorts with mud on their behind, and a teal shirt. They are facing away, towards the water, their arms at their sides. The adult is seen from the side, bent over as though to talk to the child. They are wearing a long white cable knit sweater, almost down to their knees, and a large floppy straw hat.
August 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I am happy to say that my submission to the Kenmore Art Show was accepted, and the photo here will be on display next to some other fantastic pieces!

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#Photography #ArtShows #KenmoreArtShow #ArtsOfKenmore
Color photo. A person with long, dark, curly hair, facing the camera. Their eyes are closed, and the skin of their face is completely covered in splotches of yellow, blue, green, and magenta Holi powder. Most of their hair is also covered, as is the front of their shirt. Next to them and beyond them are many other people, coated in colorful powder splotches.
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Looking for somewhere new to take my camera, and wanting to scratch my "I love a good wetland" itch, I finally checked out Mercer Slough last Friday...

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#Photography #MercerSlough #Nikon #NikonCreators #SigmaLens
Color photo. A kayaker at the bottom of the frame, facing away, the right side of their paddle dipped into the water. They are headed up a lane of water that turns a bend to the right at mid-frame. On either side of the lane are green trees, beyond which are tall buildings.
August 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Sometimes you have to move around a bit to get the angles *just* right...

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#Photography #BellevueBotanicalGarden #Nikon #NikonCreators
Color photo. A spiderweb, seen almost edge-on. The closest strands are out of focus, as are the further strands, leaving the complex geometry in the middle in focus. The strands are golden hued, lit by the out of frame sun. The background is soft, in shades of green.
August 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Just a couple of shots from my favorite place for sunsets, from a few days ago.
Color photo. A sky and clouds. On the lower right the sky is golden yellow, tinged with red, and it fades to deep blue in the upper left corner. On the right and left are sparse grey clouds, the bottoms of which are red with the setting sun. Color photo. At the bottom, the waters of Puget Sound with a sailboat on the left side. The far shore is a dark ribbon, above which are the Olympic Mountains, silhouetted against a golden yellow sky. Immediately above is a line of dark clouds. Above them, the sky is mostly clear and pale blue, dotted with more dark clouds, but behind them are high, wispy lines of cloud turned pink by the setting sun.
July 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Still plenty of things flowering at the Bellevue Botanical Garden when I was there on the 20th, and that means the bees were keeping busy...

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#Photography #Bee #Bumblebee #BellevueBotanicalGarden #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonZII
Color photo. A group of tall thin plants, covered in lavender flowerlets, some of which are tipped in red. at the bottom of the two closest are a couple of yellow and black bumblebees collecting nectar.
July 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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This morning saw me getting up early (for me) to join some friends for low tide at the Fauntleroy ferry terminal to do some tide-pooling...

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#Photography #MarineLife #Starfish #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonZ7II
Color photo. A metal beam, dotted with barnacles. A group of starfish cling to the inside of the beam. One is bright orange and the rest are dark purple.
July 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Driving home from taking some photos and saw the clouds going pink. Hurried inside when I got there and popped the drone up to get a shot of the Seattle skyline.

#Photography #DronePhotography #DJI #DJIMini3Pro
Color photo. The sky, at sunset. Clouds, the color of cotton candy, occupy the left, above the distant Seattle skyline. On the right, the clouds go golden. Above is a pale blue sky, and below are green trees, with a ballfield in the middle.
July 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Returning to my last visit to the Bellevue Botanical Garden for this Tiny Tuesday, highlighting the bees I saw...

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#Photography #MacroPhotography #TinyTuesday #BellevueBotanicalGarden #Bee #Flower #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonZ7II
Color macro photo. Two orange flowers, sunlight streaming through them, with yellow centers. In the leftmost, a large furry black and yellow bee is collecting nectar.
July 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Did some macro shooting at the Bellevue Botanical Garden recently, and going slow and being patient paid dividends...

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#Photography #MacroPhotography #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonZ7II
Color macro photo. The eye of a frog, peaking out from under a green leaf. The frog is also pale green, with darker green stripes.
July 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I had an urge yesterday evening to see the sunset over the water, so I drove over to Carkeek Park for it.

I was well rewarded, I think.

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#Photography #PugetSound #CarkeekPark #Sunset #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonZ7I
Color photo. The bottom half is the dark water of Puget Sound, covered in gentle waves. A line of reflected sunlight brightens a line on the right side, and the silhouette of a sailboat can be seen in it. The far shore is a line of dark trees, and the sky is full of clouds that barely hide the sun.
July 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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It's July 1st, and you know what that means: Happy Canada Day!

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#Photography #CanadaDay #Canadian #Maple #MapleLeaf #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonD600
Color photo. A brilliant red maple leaf, pointing towards the viewer, its near end slightly out of focus. Behind it, are other red maple leaves growing from the same barely seen branch. Behind them all is a soft dappling of red and orange light.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Another quiet week around here, so going back to last month for today's shots...

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#Photography #BillyFrankJrNisquallyNationalWildlifeRefuge #Nikon #NikonCreators #MountRainier #Seal
Color photo. A sandy tidal flat, covered in pools of water, in the bottom half of the frame. Dead trees poke up from the sand in various places, and white birds line the edge of a pool. On the distant shore, an green tree-lined hill rises up, and beyond that, looming over all, is the snow-capped peak of Mount Rainier.
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Happy Solstice! First day of summer for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and thus the longest day of the year...

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#Photography #Solstice #SummerSolstice #Nikon #NikonCreators #NikonZ7II
Color photo. An earthen path with tufts of grass growing in the middle leads up from the bottom of the frame. It curves slightly to the left before disappearing into a mass of magenta flowers and green trees at mid-frame. On either side of the path is golden grass, dotted with tall clumps of magenta, pink, and white flowers. The deep blue sky is filled with long lines of puffy white clouds matching the angle of the path below.
June 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM