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Bill Pusztai
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Photographer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is my antetenebris account; for the other one, DM me. No slop.

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Header photo: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025.
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Play of sunlight through a rock crystal sphere
#StillLife #solstice #bauhaus
Bw photo, portrait orientation. Shadow comes half way down the frame and then attenuates into shadowy light. Just above the midline is the orb. You can see the milky occlusions inside it, and it also casts a shadow and a small bright focussed area on the backdrop.
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#Hippeastrum 'Superstar' 2801 (Kwekerij De Oudendam B.V., 2008 )
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a black BG, a cluster of about eight very robust flowers on the end of long green stalks. Each flower is white, with a green throat, and symmetrical red patches on the distal end of each petal, some stronger some fainter.
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Three Neolithic clay figures, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum), Budapest.
#ancient #archaeology #neolithic #nipples
BW photo looking into a miseum display case. The figures are quite stylized, mostly straight lines and simple curves. The only features explicity included at arms, nipples, eyes, and nose.
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#Tulipa 'Webers Parrot Spectrum' (Holland BolRoy Markt B.V., 2002 )
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Looking down into the cup of the tulip. The petals are incredibly ruffled and contorted. The center is peachy yellow, progressing to pink and white flaming and feathering at the edges.
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Excerpts from _The Tale of Genji_, ink on decorated paper, attr Imperial Prince Son'en, Japan, Nanbokucho Period, 14th C. Tokyo National Museum.
#tokyo #japan #genji #art #calligraphy #epic
A strip of paper has been decorated with lines and washes in blue and purple. The paper itself is yellowing and cracking, looking incredibly fragile. Line of beautiful running script calligraphy cascade from top to bottom, irregularly spaced.
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#Edgeworthia chrysantha, paperbush
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Bright blue sky in the background, near us several branches, each with a cluster of blooms at the end. The cluster is made up of many small brilliant yellow flowers.
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Dried bloom of #Dendrobium 'Hawaii Spectacular' (D. 'Big Alex' x D. spectabile) on a mirrored surface.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Colour photo. The dried flower is spiky and crinkled, mostly magenta or deep red with areas of orange. It's reflected in the mirror surface, which is otherwise completely blank.
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Lupinus polyphyllus, many-leaved lupin. Probably an accidental garden cross with a cultivar of the species.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Two spires of lupin flowers, pale purple-blue and white, with the immature flowers showing yellow as well. A bumblebee is foraging on the right hand spike. In the background, more spikes and bluerry gerren leaves.
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#Lilium pardalinum, tiger or leopard lily.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a red velvet background, a single bloom. It has siz fully recurved petals, each of which is light orange at the base, with dark brown leopard spots, and about half way along, a sharp horizon changes to cinnnabar, spotted with the same dark spots but each has an aureola of the lighter orange. The stamens and pistil are green, prominent, and the pollen is cinnamon brown.
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#Tokyo, panoramic sunset view.
#landscape #sunset #haze #summer #東京
From high up in a tower, looking across a group of towers, on into the suburbs, and then to the mountains in the distance. The air is very hazy and the haze is suffused by orange-yellow light.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland / Germany, Städler Museum, _Madonna and Child Enthroned, Surrounded by Twelve Angels_, 1420-1430, Fra Angelico, probably while in Rome.
#FraAngelico #madonna #christmas #gold #painting #frankfurt
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#Paeonia daurica ssp mlokosewitschii seedpod.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a dark backdrop. The seedpod is green and wrinkled on the outside, but has opened as it ripened, recurving the segments, presenting a dark red / magenta interior, and bright red infertile seeds. A few fertile seeds are dark blue-black shiny orbs.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A 40 year old silver glass christmas ornament.
#christmas #vintage #silver #decay
On a black backdrop, a silvered christmas ornament, the familiar round glass globe type. It's quite old and the silvering in the inside has mostly oxidised, but spots and patches have remained partially intact. It looks sort of like a petri dish culture or the surface of the moon. I don't know why is decayed this exact way but I love how it looks.
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#Digitalis purpurea, foxgloves.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Looking at the "back" of several spikes of flowers, pink, purple and white. The sun is shining on them from the other side making them look illuminated.
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Opening today! I'm part of a group show, the Asterism Winter Salon. Representation of many of the artists who've shown their photo-based work at the Gallery since it opened.

Join us for the opening from 2-5 PM, Gallery 881, 881 Hastings St, Vancouver BC Canada.
The "poster" for the show. A dark starry background with white text on it. [Gallery 881 logotype] Asterism Exhibition Exhibition: December 6 2025 to January 15 2026 Opening reception: December 6 2025, 2 PM to 5 PM Gallery 881 881 Hastings Street Vancouver BC V6A 3Y1 gallery881.com | @gallery881 (A list of the artists) Alexa Black Andrew Latreille Anne Sargent Barbara Strigel Bill Pusztai Chad Wong Chris Jordan Danielle Bobier Gerri York Goran Basaric Hank Bull Jennifer Lim Karen Zalamea Kate Hennessy Kristin Man Lam Wong Launie Wong Fairbairn Michelle Sound Monika Wiartrowska Monique Fouquet Paula Nishikawara Pia Massie Randy Lee Cutler Richard Sandler Roger Larry Sarah Fuller Trudi Lynn Smith and Valerie d. Walker. Presented by Printmaker Studio
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#Malus domestica, apple, Pitmaston Pineapple, 2017-05-02. Strathcona Community Garden, Vancouver BC Canada.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Against a pale blue-grey overcast sky, a few branches of an espaliered apple tree. The flowers are just beginning to open, from deep pink buds into pale pink flowers. The branches have lots of lichen on them. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Seton Lake near #Lillooet BC Canada.
#landscape #moutains #sky #lake
A lake stretching from where we're standing into the distance, bounded on both sides by mountains. Above, a pale blue sky with a few clouds merging into haze in the distance. Lil'wat First Nation.
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Rain clouds reaching down to the land, Nicola Lake near Merritt, BC. Canada,
#landscape #spring #rain #fresh #clouds #sky
A big skyscape with distinct clouds near the top, leading down to fingers of rain falling on the lade, a small strip at the bottom, hills with a lake in the valley between, bright fresh spring green. In the distance, land of the Upper Nicola band (Okanagan Nation Alliance and Nicola Tribal Association).
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Opening Saturday! I'm part of a group show, the Asterism Winter Salon. Representation of many of the artists who've shown their photo-based work at the Gallery since it opened.

Join us for the opening Saturday December 06, from 2-5 PM, Gallery 881, 881 Hastings St, Vancouver BC Canada.
The "poster" for the show. A dark starry background with white text on it. [Gallery 881 logotype] Asterism Exhibition Exhibition: December 6 2025 to January 15 2026 Opening reception: December 6 2025, 2 PM to 5 PM Gallery 881 881 Hastings Street Vancouver BC V6A 3Y1 gallery881.com | @gallery881 (A list of the artists) Alexa Black Andrew Latreille Anne Sargent Barbara Strigel Bill Pusztai Chad Wong Chris Jordan Danielle Bobier Gerri York Goran Basaric Hank Bull Jennifer Lim Karen Zalamea Kate Hennessy Kristin Man Lam Wong Launie Wong Fairbairn Michelle Sound Monika Wiartrowska Monique Fouquet Paula Nishikawara Pia Massie Randy Lee Cutler Richard Sandler Roger Larry Sarah Fuller Trudi Lynn Smith and Valerie d. Walker. Presented by Printmaker Studio
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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#Fragaria species, (wild) srawberry).
#wild #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
A single small fresh white flower, five round petals with golden stamens clustered in the center. Blurry duff background. Kootenay National Park, Hwy 93 near Vermillion Crossing 51.030913, -115.993780, 1300 m, British Columbia, Canada. Kutenai groups. The gournd had been burned over a couple of years earlier.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Budapest, Magyarország (Hungary) capital of Tisza István memorial monument at Parliament in BP.
#history #hungary #magyarorszag #tisza
Looking up at a sandstone statue of a lion being bitten and strangled by a large snake. In the background, pale blue sky with fluffy clouds. The lion represent count Tisza himself (formally Comte István Imre Lajos Pál Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged) - prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1903-1905 - and the snake presumably represents his murder by political dissidents in 1918. The original was destroyed during WWII and the Russian occupation. The Orbán government rebuilt it in 2014.
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Mount Rainier alpine meadow, Washington State, USA.
#landscape #photography #alpine #autumn
A rolling slope covered in dense vegetation, and behind in the distance a mostly barren slope with snow on it. The vegetation is of a consistent height and looks a bit like a carpet with red, purple, white and green elements. #Anemone occidentalis - Pasqueflower #Oresostemma apligenum - Alpine aster #Eucephallus ledophyllus -Cascade aster #Phyllodoce empetriformis - Pink Mountain Heather #Lupinus latifolius - Broadleaf Lupine and a conifer, probably #Abies lasiocarpa - Subalpine Fir Ancestral homeland of the Cowlitz, Muckleshoot, Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin Island, Yakama, and Coast Salish people.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A raven (Corvus corax), Banff National Park, Canada.
#raven #corvid #bird #plhotography
A raven standing sideway to us but their head turned back to look directly at us. The ground is pavement so it was probably at a tourist pullout, where people feed them.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Budapest, Magyarország/Hungary, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum), Sabertache plate (a protective plate for a mounted fighter's saddle bags), Galgóc (now Hlohovec, Slovakia), 10th C
#archaeology #history #repeat #pattern #photography
A photograph of the object on display in museum mounts and lighting. It's a vaguely tongue-shaped piece, silver with selective gilding (or maybe just wear). The decoration is an islamic-looking allover repeat pattern of twisted cord net with a leaf and flower motif, possible derived from a textile pattern. It's dated to CE 900-930, a time before the Hungarian state existed in a recognisable form, when the Carpathian basin was being occupied by a coalition of tribes that claimed direct descent from Atilla the Hun, defeating various early European / late Roman armies claiming it. It's not known where the object originated but stylistically it's consistent with Samanid/Sogdian design.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#Ficus carica 'Violette de Bordeaux' figs.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On an olive green velvet cloth, a small bluish green celadon plate, on it, several small purple-skinned figs open to reveal ruby red interiors.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM