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Beautiful blossoms at Burnaby Mountain Park near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: A photo from one of my favourite places in spring attire can't be missed from my photostream! I enjoyed a quick visit to Burnaby Mountain Park to enjoy the beautiful cherry blossoms that had finally popped open over there.
I noticed this couple standing under the blossom trees while hugging, that was the perfect opportunity for me to take a photo.
The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival officially kicked off on March 26, 2025 and will run until April 28, 2025. There are many different varieties to be found in Vancouver and we usually get to enjoy cherry blossoms from the end of March until the end of April.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony RX10M4
*Focal Length: 10mm
*F-Number: F/16
*Exposure Time: 1/160 sec.
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
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Ann :)
Some information on Burnaby Mountain: Burnaby is a city which belongs to the Greater Vancouver area and is about 10-15 minutes from downtown Vancouver. Burnaby Mountain is one of the beautiful places to visit in Burnaby and is located near the Simon Fraser University. The views over the mountains, the Burrard Inlet, downtown Vancouver and Indian arm from up here make it such a great place. This is a fairly popular destination for visitors and locals alike. The green hillside offers room to throw a frisbee or send a kite soaring. There is a network of trails which offer a variety of hiking, walking and jogging options. There is a picnic area and a small playground near the parking lot and there is also a playground tucked away in the upper hillside.
The Centennial Pavilion area features the Rose Garden, with its vibrant colours in season and a great variety of roses. There used to be the Horizons restaurant as well which has been closed and "Mintara atop Burnaby Mountain" is now the new restaurant up there. Towering over the distant city are the tall Kamui Mintara (Playground of the Gods) sculptures. The Kamui Mintara is more than a dozen carved poles created by Japanese sculptors Nuburi Toko and his son, Shusei. These impressive sculptures commemorate the goodwill between Burnaby and its sister city, Kushiro, Japan.
Burnaby Mountain is a great place to enjoy in any season as there are always the beautiful views over the city, the mountains, the Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm (a coastal fjord of about 18km/11.25mi long).
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An Elephant style lash-up leads a manifest along CN's Ashcroft Sub seen here crossing the Thompson river.
Heavy winter and spring rains often bring down trees and undermine others to change the path of the creek after the falls.
I still take photos while I am away from Flickr. On my birthday, my fiancé and I took a day off and relax a bit in Downtown. I decided to check out Fly Over Canada (Iceland) as the Iceland show will be over on that Sunday. To be honest, the show was better than I expected and it makes me want to travel to Iceland soon.
I always find Fujifilm a very great camera to use and XF10-24mm is such a versatile wide angle zoom. I heard that a MKII version is coming out very soon. Many people asked me if I am still using Fujifilm. I always tell them "yes, for now". If I am selling off my X-H1 and lenses, I will still get a X100V as my secondary camera since Fujifilm camera is so fun to use :)
Location: Downtown Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Rudbeckia are wonderful, free-flowering daisies in cheerful colours ranging from yellow to bronze to mahogany. The showy flowers will attract bees, butterflies, and the seeds are loved by birds. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
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Endless adventures with awe-inspiring natural wonders on Vancouver Island. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved
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Stocking Falls on Stocking Creek with one of the many stumps that over the years during storm seasons make their way over the falls - most are not so intriguing as this one - seems to be perfectly placed to enhance the falls :)
The heavy mist from the waterfall softens the overall look, something I was worried about with having to keep it off my lens.
Long time no uploads on 500px, but this one is the first real processed image from my 4 week trip in Canada. Enjoy and more to come slowly the coming weeks via 500px ift.tt/32oJTS6
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Vancouver City View While Snowboarding on Grouse Mountain, BC, Canada.
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Portrait of a male Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in its cerulean blue breeding plumage. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
One of the last CN 570's snake along Anderson Lake approaching D'Arcy, BC on the former BC Rail Squamish, Sub.
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And now let the tulip spam begin from the beautiful tulip fields at Lakeland Flowers in Abbotsford near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: With the beautiful spring weather we've been having this last week, I had to go check out to the tulip fields. I went with a couple of my friends and we choose to visit the Abbotsford Tulip Festival near Vancouver, BC, Canada. There is one in Chilliwack and Harrison as well. We decided to go back to the one in Abbotsford operated by Lakeland Flowers which we visited a few times in the past as they have such beautiful tulip fields with so many gorgeous varieties and amazing colours! 🌷🌷🌷
There's 28 acres to enjoy 5 million tulips and about 100 different varieties.
I took this photo during our trip with some pretty vibrant red tulips and the mountains in the distance.I must say there is something about tulip fields and mountains which you don't see in the Netherlands.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 9mm
*F-Number: F/11
*Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
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Ann :-)
Some information about Lakeland Flowers:
Peter Warmerdam was born in 1927 in Sassenheim Netherlands. At the time, it was the home of the largest tulip bulb producing area in the world. In 1949, Peter arrived in Canada and worked at whatever jobs were available. His first job was working on a farm in Winnipeg. He moved to the West Coast in the early 1950’s spending some time in logging and eventually working full time in farming.
In 1974, Peter and his family purchased land in the Sumas Prairie Flats in Abbotsford where the farm currently stands. Peter chose the Sumas area because the sandy soil made harvesting bulbs easier and the steady winds kept foliar diseases at bay. The ownership in the business eventually transferred to his sons and he became fully retired from working on the farm at 87 years of age.
In its 47 years in Abbotsford, the farm has expanded from a small operation to a company of nearly 100 employees. Today, Peter’s son Nick owns and operates Lakeland Flowers which continues to grow millions of beautiful daffodils, tulips, peonies, and sunflowers each year.
The land they now farm once used to be known as Sumas Lake. From the Glacial Age, it sat in a basin cocooned between the Sumas and Vedder mountains. The 10 000 acre lake would triple in size each spring from water rushing in from the Chilliwack and Vedder River that fed into it. This would ruin crops and make transportation between Chilliwack and cities to the west impossible.
By the 1920’s, engineers drained the lake through the Sumas Lake Canal and into the Fraser River, effectively turning the lake into farmland. The soils from the lakebed are sandy to silty in composition and quite fertile, creating the area into an agricultural hub of the Fraser Valley.
Info from their website under "Our Story": www.lakelandflowers.ca/our-story/
I jogged this area almost everyday and I always know this spot will be so cool when it is snowed. That's why I took my fiance here on Sunday and glad I did. Because there are so many cars parked on the street and I found them so distracting so I used FE 100-400GM.
I told her to do a spin before taking the shot and I really like the outcome. It is probably my favorite shot of her this year...probably because her hair was flying... :)
FE 100-400 GM is one of my most used lens. Before buying this lens, I was debating if I should pay this much for it. Glad I did because the quality and performance are just stunning :)
Location: Vancouver, BC (Canada)
An overnight dumping of snow coats the slopes of Mt. Seymour Provincial Park. A Seabus crosses Vancouver Harbour on it's way to the City of North Vancouver. Areas of Metro Vancouver woke up to snow and icy roads for the morning commute... and there's still 48 days until winter arrives 😕 Captured during this morning's blue hour from Canada Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ November 3, 2017