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John Soanes 🍁

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Night Moves YYZ

Leg one of 17-hour odyssey about to be completed

#WeekNforNights #AlphabetChallenge #MeaninglessHashtag #MHClub Bright light will always banish the dark...pass it on

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #NightPhotography #EastCoastKin #travel #Toronto #Canada #ImagesOfCanada

October 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Howdy Neighbours!

The welcoming party at nearby, Smith Farm. The girls produce excellent cheeses, including Chèvre. Farm has been family operated since 1885 #goaturday

Langley, British Columbia
🧭 49°08'01.0"N 122°37'42.0"W

#photography #nature #originalcontent #goat #langley #imagesofcanada

September 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM Everybody can reply

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👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #BlueSkyMonday
#photography #originalcontent #landscape #nature #BritishColumbia #roadtrip #VancouverIsland #Canada #imagesofcanada

September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM Everybody can reply

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John Soanes 🍁

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Fall Colors, Vancouver Island - 2021

Sproat Lake. Heading to the southern hemisphere shortly to rejoin my favorite season Spring. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #BlueSkyMonday

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #nature #BritishColumbia #roadtrip #VancouverIsland #Canada #imagesofcanada

Morning mist moves across blue skies. Deciduous trees provide a stark contrast to the deep greens of the evergreen forest: Both reflect onto the rippled waters of the lake.

September 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM Everybody can reply

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John Soanes 🍁

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Reflections On Buntzen

Mount Bishop from Buntzen Lake #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #Scape

Anmore, BC
🧭 49°21'44" N 122°51'13" W

#photography #landscape #originalcontent #WestCoastKin #forest #EastCoastKin #hikingtrail #mountain #lake #nature #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

September 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Home Is Where The Boots Are

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” ~ John Muir #BlueSkyArtShow #Home #ColorADay #GreenSat

Langley, British Columbia
🧭 49°5'13" N 122°40'53" W

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #nature #hiking #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

Loose dirt and twigs lead to a hollowed-out log that serves as a bridge. Skunk Cabbage can be seen on the left side, evidence of gooey muck, which is currently quite dry. Me bride can bee seen at the far side in a blue shirt. This area is a place we frequently come to escape the heat and wildfire smoke. If things really heat up, nearby Andersen Creek has some pools ...that's if you can convince the dogs to make room for you.

September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM Everybody can reply

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T'l'oqwxwat

Avatar Grove, Vancouver Island. Sign @ TH proclaims "Canada's Gnarliest Tree" #ForestFriday #Scape

Port Renfrew, British Columbia
🧭48°37'0" N 124°26'14" W

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #EastCoastKin #nature #hiking #vancouverisland #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

September 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Beautiful Warning

Wildfire smoke has provides an orange hue to sunlight streaming through the canopy. #ForestFriday #ClimateChange

Surrey, British Columbia
🧭 49°5'13" N 122°40'53" W

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Brown tree trunks take on an orange glow as the sun streams down through hanging wildfire smoke. Even the ground takes on a pronounced orange hue, in contrast with the brilliant greens of the mixed deciduous and evergreen forest. The only constant in Climate Change is our collective denial and lack of acceptance of the obvious. We have more fires, more floods and more hurricanes and more Heat Domes: All with increasing frequency and intensity.

September 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Nature's Plunge Pool

Sawblade Trail takes us to this oasis from the summer's heat, Woodland Falls. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #ColorADay #GreenSat

Coquitlam, BC

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #WestCoastKin #EastCoastKin #hikingtrail #waterfall #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

A low. summer flow cascades down Woodland Falls into a small pool. The forest canopy filters the sunlight, providing many shady places to escape from its heat. The flowing water provides additional cooling. There are trees growing up the sides of the falls and some large boulders in front of the pool. The hike is a loop of about 9.5 kilometers.

September 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Taking Cover

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” ~ John Muir

A full week of Hazardous Air Quality Warnings! #ForestFriday

Langley, BC

#Landscape #originalcontent #Photography #hikingtrail #ClimateChange #Forest #EastCoastKin #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

Conjoined trees sit next to a gravel trail that slopes down and left out of the frame. Dead leaves are evidence of the extended drought that the forests in British Columbia, more accurately the Pacific North West have endured. The sunlight has a slightly exaggerated orange hue provided by wildfire smoke, as we are surrounded by them. With a solid week of Dangerous Air Quality warnings I'm surprised the orange hue is not more pronounced.

September 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Bi-Coastal Kin

What am I? #WestCoastKin or #EastCoastKin Lived on both coasts and places in between, I'm in love with red chairs! #RedWed #ColorADay #scape

Tofino & Cape Breton

#photography #landscape #seascape #rainforest #originalcontent #BritishColumbia #NovaScotia #Canada #ImagesOfCanada

Parks Canada infamous red chairs among the giants of the old growth forest. Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Tofino / Ucluelet, British Columbia

A red chair looks out to the North Atlantic Ocean. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

September 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM Everybody can reply

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Jorgenson Peak

Sending some cool, #BlueSkyMonday vibes standing on the edge of the Nicolum River. Happy #LabourDay / #LaborDay #MountainMonday

Hope, BC
🧭 49°22'29.3"N 121°22'10.2"W

#landscape #originalcontent #forest #river #hikingtrail #nature #mountain #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

Looking over the snow-wrapped Nicolum River towards Jorgenson Peak. Filtered sunlight is reflecting on the river. The evergreen hillside and snow-dusted mountain are in full sun, under a clear blue sky.

September 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Trail Tuesdays?

Bright light will always banish the dark...pass it on 🧡
#MeaninglessHashtag #MHClub

Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
🧭 53°35'06.7"N 131°56'34.2"W

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #hilingtrail #TrailTuesday #wilderness #HaidaGwaii #imagesofcanada

A trail threads into the left side of the frame while a river goes off into the right side. There are evergreen trees and moss throughout the image. Blue skies.

December 10, 2024 at 4:58 PM Everybody can reply

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Wet, Wild, Dangerous

Amphitrite Point Lighthouse from the Wild Pacific Trail. Into full-on camera moisture control. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDanger #WaterWednesday

Ucluelet, British Columbia

#photography #landscape #originalcontent #seascape #Ucluelet #britishcolumbia #imagesofcanada

January 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Just A Duck

Floating, not flying. #FeatherFriday #FeatheredFriday #FlyDay

#photography #nature #originalcontent #hikingtrails #BritishColumbia #imagesofcanada

A colourful male duck floating on a pond with green and yellow hues. Sunlight is reflecting off of the ripples in the water.

April 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Curious Coonhound on Canada Day #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAlliteration

Our furry, water-baby on a #CanadaDay gone by.

Kennedy Falls, British Columbia

#photography #landscape #originalcontent #hiking #hikingbuddy #canada #BritishColumbia #imagesofcanada

Ellie-May, a Redbone Coonhound stands in the run-off from Kennedy Falls, in North Vancouver, BC. It's Canada Day 2018. The mist and churn of the waterfall can be seen in the background. Canadian flags have been added to the stream.

July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Sunset Paddle

Paddlers returning to the dock in North Vancouver, BC, obscured Lions Gate bridge in the distance. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKinetic #WaterWednesday

Burrard Inlet, BC

#photography #landscape #nature #originalcontent #GoldenHour #sunset #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #imagesofcanada

A group of paddlers heading back to the dock in North Vancouver, BC, an obscured Lions Gate bridge in the distance.

March 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Kennedy Falls

One of my favorite local wilderness hikes. The mutt loved this place. #WildernessWeekends #ChasingWaterfalls

North Vancouver, British Columbia
🧭49°23'40" N 123°2'51" W

#photography #originalcontent#nature #landscape #nature #hikingtrails #BritishColumbia #Canada #imagesofcanada

June 14, 2024 at 4:02 PM Everybody can reply

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The "Giants" of Cathedral Grove

Vancouver Island #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLight #TreeTuesday #TallTreeTuesday

Cameron Lake, British Columbia
🧭 49°17'27.0"N 124°39'26.0"W

#photography #landscape #realphotography #originalcontent #nature #BritishColumbia #imagesofcanada

September 17, 2024 at 2:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Whizzing By

Entering the Yukon Territory toward Whitehorse from Alaska. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJourney #WildernessWeekends

Atlin, Yukon Territory
🧭60°0'1" N 134°39'48" W

#photography #realphotography #originalcontent #landscape #nature #mountains #roadtrip #Yukon #Canada #imagesofcanada

September 7, 2024 at 3:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Morning has broken

In the light and the shadows of the sun. #BlueSkyArtShow #LightandShadow

Langley, British Columbia 🇨🇦

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #sunrise #Langley #MtBaker #Canada #imagesofcanada

The sun rising over Mt. Baker with rays casting over a backlit farm and a row of trees in silhouette. There's golden light and shadow across the field in the foreground. There's blue sky with patches of white cloud.

May 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Fungi In The Forest

Or this tree has an acute case of hoof in moss disease. #FungiFriday #ForestFriday

Hayward Lake Reservoir Trail, Mission, BC
🧭 49°12'36.0"N 122°21'52.0"W

#photography #landscape #nature #originalcontent #fungi #hikingtrail #forest #BritishColumbia #imagesofcanada

A tree, bearded in moss, with tinder fungi growing out of it

January 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM Everybody can reply

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Wildflower

Random poppy from an urban trail we frequently walk. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRed

Langley Twp, British Columbia

#photography #originalcontent #nature #wildflowers #urbantrail #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

October 29, 2024 at 2:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Adolescent Among Giants

A lone tree stands beside Upper Joffre Lake. The last #MountainMonday of 2024. May 2025 present only mountains that you want to climb 🥾

Mount Currie, British Columbia

#photography #landscape #nature #originalcontent #hikingtrails #britishcolumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

A lone tree sits next to a lake, the tips of its baches have light green new growth. There are rocks, above and below the water as well as reflections from the surrounding forest. The lake and the adjacent landscape fades into the mist.

December 30, 2024 at 4:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Le G.O.A.T

Guess its also #caturday, the cat is photobombing the goat. Goat is member of Team Chèvre at Milner Valley Cheese #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFaces #goaturday

Langley Twp, British Columbia

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #langley #BritishColumbia #canada #imagesofcanada

August 10, 2024 at 1:59 PM Everybody can reply

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