I’m a photographer, crafter, software developer, researcher, and generally curious person. I tend to get excited about oddly specific things. I live in Vancouver with my spouse Leah and our two cats, and currently work at Microsoft. My full name is globally unique, so it’s pretty easy to find what I’m up to online.

My pronouns are he/him and they/them, depending on grammatical context. I do not use an honorific, so please choose an appropriate gender-nonspecific option (typically “Dr”) only when absolutely necessary. Puns count as “absolutely necessary”.

I dabble in lots of different fields, including photography, cross-stitch, origami, painting, and printmaking. I spend much of my spare time reading manga, following women’s cricket, and discovering mildly interesting facts.

This website

This website is a living archive of my personal projects, creative endeavours, and Wikipedia rabbit holes. Posts are dated based on when they were first written, though I may revise and add to old pages from time to time.

I started publishing at this domain name in 2008. Some content dates back to 2003–08, having previously appeared on my now-defunct earlier websites: the non-sequitur photoblog Gee, that’s random, my high school journal Wandering Thoughts, and the photo collage webcomic Isotopes of Bismuth.

All material on this site is my own and does not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else, including my employer, colleagues, family, friends, and future self.

Contact

You can reach me by email at ross@rosschurchley.com at my Mastodon or BlueSky accounts, or by texting me if you have my number.

I generally post here in lieu of any social media networks, so to follow my latest updates, I recommend subscribing to this site’s RSS feed.