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A twelve-year dream has come true.
A life observed. In words & images.
I’m Russell—a web developer, photographer, and writer
with a deep appreciation for the natural world.
Elbow Lake
Favourite landscapes
Journal
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Quotations.app: Vibe Coding My Way Through a Changing Profession
Have you ever read a sentence so clever and impactful that you instantly memorized it? One such phrase came to me in Stephen King’s 1986 novel It when one of the main characters removes a rusty nail from a wooden board, and it squeals “like some small unpleasant animal that had been stepped on and didn’t like it.”
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Virtual Reality has struggled to find a compelling use case. I propose at least one.
About
A balance of logic, curiosity, and creativity.
My work has moved through structural engineering, biomedical research, and web development. Across those fields, I’ve always enjoyed the same process: understanding how things work, then making them work better.
Away from the computer, you’ll find me exploring the natural world on foot, skis, or a bike, with my camera along for the journey.
This website is my creative outlet, a place to share the world as I see it through photographs and words.
Latest book read
Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past