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Please call me Eri! Photographer, artist, musician, writer.

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Lotusland; Terminal City; Rain City; The Big Smoke; the City of Glass.

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Leaves through different eyes.

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Downtown Vancouver as seen through an "inefficient" hot mirror and a blue filter.

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A moment of quiet in what was (for me) a hectic day.

🗺️: Schaan, 🇱🇮.

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Somehow, these towers almost look like a lock and a key for each other at this angle, even if the scale is entirely off.

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Those blue parts look the exact same black as the black parts to the naked eye, by the way.

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The red/blue channel swap trick with colour IR photos really produces pretty results — as long as there aren't any natural objects in the scene apart from the sky, water, and vegetation.

Whatcom County, WA, USA (Lummi; Nooksack)

Seattle, WA, USA (Duwamish)

Vancouver, BC, Canada (unceded Squamish; Musqueam; Tsleil-Waututh)

Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Shawnee; Lenape; Seneca)

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From this angle, you can see at least four of the SkyTrain's five rails. Not seen here: this is multiple storeys under street level, and looks as if it is underground most of the time, but this is at the true ground level.

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If you look closely, you can see exactly how far the camera travelled in the 500μs it took to capture this exposure.

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Normal City,

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Same ferry, same time of day, different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

🗺️ Mukilteo, Washington, USA.

NB: I wasn't sure how best to, in the location description, convey that this is also on the lands of the Snohomish people. Where I live, "unceded (nation) land" usually applies; in this case, though, there is a treaty.

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A photo taken right after a friend and I exited a pizzeria to the almost deafening roar of tens if not hundreds of motorcycles.

🗺️ Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Symmetry.

Top: Bellver Castle, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain

Left: University of Zurich Law Library, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Right: World Trade Center, New York City, New York, USA

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Chicago (August 2023).

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Some photos from Tuesday's aurora. I expected the cloud cover to be either worse or better than what there ended up being, but I suppose, with enough editing, these ones turned out alright?

(Including an infrared photo!)

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Downtown on an April afternoon.

70mm / f/2.8 / ISO 500

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While the setting I'm working on (and whatever narratives I make in that setting) won't focus much on Earth, I already know that the Lower Mainland, where I've lived for all my life so far, is going to be one major inspiration among others. For all that's deeply wrong about the economic and political realities of this city (and the country in which it developed) today — the natural setting is beautiful and the built form of it is at least visually striking.

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Downtown on an April afternoon.

70mm / f/2.8 / ISO 500