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Bill Pusztai
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Photographer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is my antetenebris account; for the other one, DM me. No slop.

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Header photo: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025.
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#Hemerocallis 'Hot Spider' (Thomas Theodore Craig of Escondido, California, 1969)
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
A single bloom in right profile, set in a glass tube. The petals are long and narrow and strongly recurved, green and orange on the outside and strong dusty red on the inside. The stamens and pistil and orange.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#Clematis occidentalis, Western blue clematis
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
A single flower, facing down, blurry leafy green background. This flower has four petals, is very pale blue-violet, with recurved tips.
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada 53°01'40.7"N 119°13'51.2"W (near Mt Robson Provincial Park).
#landscape #autumn #river #trees
Two walls of forest, mostly conifers with a few birch and aspen, and down the middle of the image, the river, rushing through a sort of shallow canyon about 10-20 m across. The water is mostly white but turquoise where it pools. In front of us some boulders. At a spot where Sécwepemc, Dakelh, Ktunaxa, and Cree shared territory.
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städler Museum, stitched pano of the Altenberg Altarpiece, ca 1330, wings by Rheinischer Meister, Madonna and Child by Kölner Meister.
#museum #art #mediaeval #photography
On a box pedestal against a wall, both painted deep green, an intricately carved and painted altarpiece in the form of a box with two doors opening to the side. The inside of the doors are brilliantly painted and gilded with scenes of people, angels, and beasts. The interior of the box contains a Madonna and Child, a statue fully in the round, gilded; framed by a carved "altar screen" device of gothic arches and traceries, gilded and painted. The whole is amazingly well preserved for something almost 700 years old.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Big piles of sulphur derived from oil refining, PKM Canada Marine Loading Dock, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
#landscape #harbour #fossilfuels #shipping #photography
Looking across the water at the dock, nearest to us are a couple of smaller vessels with shipping containers, then a system of gantries with the conveyor belts and machinery that move the sulphur around, under them the sulphur, and in the background a forested hillside. Above, the sky streaked with clouds. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Thomspson-Nicola area, British Columbia, Canada -
#rangeland #sagebrush #grass #landscape #photography
Autumnal view of a small piece of rangeland incorporating gentle hills and gulleys. The flats at the top are cleared and mown but the slopes are still naturally populated with brush. Grasses and warm biscuit coloured, sagebrush is pale grey-green-silver. It's almost an abstract composition.
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#Rhododendron stenopetalum ‘Koromo Shibuki’
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
An interesting rhodie with fully separate pointed spatulate petals, mostly lilac with a sprinkling of red toward the throat. Here pictures a flowering twig and in the background more of the same, blurry.
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#Syringa x, lilac
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
A bunch of lilac blossom frothing rich red-lilac out of a glass jar.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Crowsnest Highway near Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
#landscape #photography #mountains
Looking across a few trees and house to a densely forested ridge, and in the distance, the mountains. Cloudy-sunny day, with cloud shadows passing across the mountians. Traditional territories of ʔaq̓am and other bands of the Ktunaxa First Nation.
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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#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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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