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Michael Russell
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Photographer from British Columbia, Canada. I mostly photograph landscapes and nature/wildlife scenes from Southwest British Columbia and occasionally Washington State. #Photography #BritishColumbia

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#SilentSunday
A view of a wetland with pond lily leaves coating half of the surface, with a shoreline of tall trees mostly conifers but a few prominent, green, bigleaf maple trees with some brighter sunlight on them on an otherwise overcast day.
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A wooden sailboat with red masts sails the Captain Passage between Salt Spring Island and Prevost Island in British Columbia. The ocean water is a dark blue, a few homes/buildings can be seen on the distant shore, and there are some large clouds in an other wise blue sky.
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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A spring storm brings a downpour of rain over the coast mountains in BC. Eagle Mountain is receiving most of the rain here while the sun breaks through the clouds from the west. Photographed from Burnaby Mountain.

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #BritishColumbia #Photography #MountainMonday
A photograph of dark clouds over a series of mountain peaks, with a downpour of rain hitting them, and side light from the sun shining beams directly onto the torrents of rain.
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Spots of sunlight brighten the Western Sword Ferns and Vanilla Leaf plants lining a small foot trail through a forest of conifers and bigleaf maples on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada.
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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For #MountainMonday this week I have this photograph of some clouds clearing on the side of Mount Cheam (Lhílheqey) in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Chilliwack #BritishColumbia #Photography #Photo
A conifer forested mountain slope is revealed as clouds clear in a triangular shape on the side of a mountain. The remainder of the frame is filled with clouds. There is a touch of fresh snow on the trees at the higher elevations.
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A small purple coloured pea flower is dwarfed by much taller grasses and grass seed stalks.
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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For #MountainMonday: The Cowlitz Chimneys and Sarvant Glaciers at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State, USA.

#Mountains #Panorama #Washington #Cascades #LandscapePhotography #Landscape
A panorama of a mountain range (the Cowlitz chimneys) with patches of glaciers or snow that has not yet melted. The sky is blue with some clouds.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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An evening photo just after sunset of a lake reflection. The shoreline in the not too far distance is lined with deciduous trees which have mostly lost their leaves, but with some remnants of fall leaves remaining - above a sandy beach with some stumps lingering in it during a low level of water. Above is some incoming fog/cloud with a rounded mountain peak above. The fog, trees, and beach are reflected in the calm waters.
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A field of green grasses, an unoccupied park bench, and two large green maple trees in the background.
November 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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The shore of a small lake is edged with small grasses, then larger shrubs and trees with fall foliage leaf colour. The background is taller conifer trees, all reflected in the lake with a nearly perfect mirror reflection.
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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A night photograph of a viewing tower next to a marsh, with almost the entire sky lit up by green and red aurora borealis. I found this more remarkable as I was facing south, and even the light pollution from Vancouver didn't do much to diminish the light show.
October 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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The beginnings of fall foliage colours at a lake in Quebec, Canada. The foreground is a large beaver pond, complete with a beaver lodge, and some floating weeds. Further back beyond the shoreline is a hillside with a wide range of fall leaf colour - from green to deep reds and everything in between.
October 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Green leaves of Corn Lilies (Veratrum viride) have interesting patterns and shapes. I made this photo of the tapered green leaves with longitudinal grooves in them at Manning Park this summer.
September 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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...
Looking up at a tall, rectangular office building with a round revolving restaurant on top of it. The view of the office/restaurant building is through a very large skylight with circular rings expanding from the centre. The sky behind the building is blue.
September 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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
Photograph of a tidal marsh in British Columbia. Old posts/piles are lined up on the left, in a tidal zone without water, a brown marsh behind them. In the distance some towers from a city loom over a low hill, with some large snow capped mountains behind. Photographed just after sunset.
September 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A dark crack in white/blue/snow covered ice meanders through the frame towards two tufts of grass/plants poking through the surface
September 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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
Subalpine meadows in British Columbia. A slope with small plants in large fields are dotted with patches of subalpine fir trees. Further in the distance rolling hills and mountains are covered in a large burn scar from a 2022 wildfire. Beyond that are some taller mountain peaks in the North Cascades range.
September 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A small building reflected in a pond with blue sky and a border of surrounding trees. The Interpretive Centre building at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve is home to one of the largest heron nesting colonies in the Lower Mainland with approximately 95 nests.
September 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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For #MountainMonday: Mount Cheam and the Fraser River in Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada.

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#FraserValley #BritishColumbia #Canada #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photo #River #Fall
Still waters of a river, and a sandy river bank in the foreground, with yellow fall foliage on the trees further along the river, and a large mountain in the background. Photographed in the fall with just a touch of fresh snow on the mountain tops.
September 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A small tree (Black Cottonwood) tree growing out of a deadhead on a still lake with a good reflection of the tree, the deadhead, and the shoreline in the background. The shoreline is lined with deciduous trees with some fall foliage still hanging onto the branches.
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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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. :)

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#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #BritishColumbia #River #Fall #MountainMonday
A gravel filled shoreline of a small river with people fishing for salmon scattered on its banks. A few mountain peaks are in the background with some puffy clouds rising off the taller mountain peak.
September 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Photograph not long before sunset of two fishing boats in a slough near the ocean. Their hulls are reflected on the still water with a grassy marshland behind them, and mountains in the far distance.
August 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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
Two Canada geese involved in a squabble over nesting territory. One goose is flying away off the surface of the water as another rushes at it with its beak open and wings outstretched to chase it away. Photographed on a pond/wetland area with a few dead trees and wetland grasses along the shoreline.
August 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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
Two mountain peaks in the background with a strip of trees/shrubs below, and a grassy field in the foreground with various wildflower species (mostly yellow). A fence with boxes for birds to nest in angles through the field.
August 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Two people watching the northern lights standing on a road/dike area next to mountains and a lake.
August 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM