Ross Churchley

The sun nears the horizon over the Fraser River and the Knight Street bridge. The sky, dotted with clouds, fades from yellow on the horizon to deep blue overhead.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-20

Canada • BC • Vancouver

A lens flare emanating from the sun, centred in frame on the horizon. The flare appear as a grid of distorted red circles.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-19

Canada • BC • Burnaby • Simon Fraser University

The sun sets over the city of Kanazawa, with Kanazawa Castle in the foreground in shadow.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-18

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Kanazawa Castle

The sun sets below a layer of clouds on the ocean horizon. The entire photo is bathed in a golden hue.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-17

Canada • BC • Tofino

A silhouette of a seagull against a sunset, above Vancouver's North Shore mountains and an illuminated ship.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-16

Canada • BC • Salish Sea

A statue of the Virgin Mary with an ominous blue colour-grade, as though it was a day-for-night shot in an old horror movie.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-15

Canada • Québec • Warwick

A stone statue of a bishop holding a book and a golden staff

Photo of the day for 2025-02-14

Slovenia • Ljubljana

A statue of a samurai with a large gold-plated hat, among dark trees at twilight, dramatically lit from below

Photo of the day for 2025-02-13

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Kanazawa Castle Park

A statue of the legendary prince Yamato Takeru against a clear blue sky

Photo of the day for 2025-02-12

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Kenrokuen

A statue of Queen Victoria, almost in silhouette, against a clear blue sky

Photo of the day for 2025-02-11

Canada • BC • Victoria • BC Parliament Buildings

A statue of an athletic young man raising his forearm is dramatically illuminated from one side.

Photo of the day for 2025-02-10

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Kanazawa Castle Park

The statue of Godzilla outside Toho Cinemas Hibiya

Photo of the day for 2025-02-09

Japan • Tōkyō • Chiyoda • Yūrakuchō

The silhouette of a heron perched atop a tree, against the red clouds and blue sky at sunset

Photo of the day for 2025-02-08

Japan • Kyōto • Maruyama Park

A crow walks along the side of a road at sunset

Photo of the day for 2025-02-07

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Utatsuyama

A small kingfisher sits on a concrete block in front of a shallow green river

Photo of the day for 2025-02-06

Japan • Kyōto • Kamo River

A colony of white egrets roost on a tree with yellowing leaves

Photo of the day for 2025-02-05

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Asano River

A group of large-billed crows surround and pick at a small tree stump

Photo of the day for 2025-02-04

Japan • Tōkyō • Shibuya • Yoyogi Park

A sparrow standing on the edge of a Japanese roof faces away and to the left

Photo of the day for 2025-02-03

Japan • Kyōto • Gion

A heron stands in a river below and facing a short waterfall

Photo of the day for 2025-02-02

Japan • Kyōto • Kamo River

A small fox statue guarding a torii gate at Fushimi Inari Taisha

Photo of the day for 2025-02-01

Japan • Kyōto • Fushimi Inari Taisha

Two smiling plushies in a cubby, shaped like the generic Pokémon doll created from the move Substitute.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-31

Japan • Tōkyō • Chūō • Pokémon Center Tōkyō DX

An over-the-shoulder action shot of a crane game, with the claw hovering over a plush of a cat wearing a hat with a mandarin orange on it.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-30

Japan • Kyōto

A simplified cartoon version of Georges Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", with several small cute pandas added.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-29

Japan • Tōkyō • Taitō • Ueno

Stuffed dolls of a kitsune and a swallow, both dressed as train conductors, in the window of a train.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-28

Japan • Kyōto • Kyōto Railway Museum