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

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

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 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 heron stands in a river below and facing a short waterfall

Photo of the day for 2025-02-02

Japan • Kyōto • Kamo River

A wooden bridge spans a river, with autumn colours covering the hills in the background

Photo of the day for 2025-01-12

Japan • Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Asano River

The browning leaves of dormant water lilies cover Shinobazu Pond. In the background, a willow and other trees stand in Ueno Park.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-11

Japan • Tōkyō • Taitō • Ueno Park

A pier on the Fraser River is bathed in the gold light of the low winter sun

Photo of the day for 2025-01-04

Canada • BC • Vancouver

The North Shore mountains as seen from SFU, with red and orange trees in the foreground.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-03

Canada • BC • Burnaby • Lhuḵw'lhuḵw'áyten (Burnaby Mountain)

A sunrise viewed through the bare branches of a small tree

Photo of the day for 2025-01-02

Canada • BC • Oak Bay

A tranquil scene of an overcast sky above a calm ocean. There is a lone seagull in flight near the middle of the frame.

Photo of the day for 2025-01-01

Canada • BC • Salish Sea

Fact

Icebergs are not tall and narrow

They generally float with the long axis horizontal

Fact

"Distribute" is the opposite of tribute

And a distributary is the opposite of a tributary

A sign reads 'Do not feed the wildlife or birds'

Do not feed the wildlife

Are pigeons wildlife?

Fact

There's no such thing as a tree

Trees are a strategy, not a family

A relief map zoomed in to New Westminster, Burnaby, and Coquitlam, showing creeks draining into the Brunette River watershed

Know your watershed

Where Burrard Peninsula's creeks flow

A sign posted by the Vancouver Parks Board at the entrance to a park

If you see a coyote

Yell "Go away coyote"

Fact

Alberta has no rats

Thanks to decades of ongoing government effort

Fact

Sunflowers are false flowers

Each "petal" is its own individual flower