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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Jacques Henri Lartigue: "Maurice Lartigue, Chateau Rouzat", 1911 #Photography

A dapper young man with dark driving goggles, a suit and tie, and a pith helmet resting in an inner tube floating in an expanse of water

Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Coptis trifolia, goldthread, blooming in a shaft of sunshine that snuck through the taller plants. The white 'petals' are actually sepals. The petals are reduced to narrow clubs tipped with a golden nectary. You can see a few amongst the stamens. #botany #Photography

A small white flower facing into the sun in a narrow shaft of light falling between the stems of taller plants. The white sepals fan outwards horizontally from the flower, which has a spray of several dozen stamens around 3 or 4 pistils with curving stigmas. A few club-shaped petals are visible amongst the stamens, each tipped with a honey gold nectary

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

A habitat shot to give you a better sense of the scale of this little plant. #botany #Photography

A tiny head of white Labrador Tea flowers barely rising above a carpet of crowberry leaves

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Labrador Tea, Ledum palustre (or Rhododendron nowadays). A very dwarf shrub here, barely sticking up more than 5cm in a lot of places. In protected nooks and crannies it can get to be a few decimeters tall. #botany #Photography

A cluster of small white flowers, each with a pale green ovary and a spray of stamens protruding beyond the petals. The sunlight shining through the stamens gives the plant a glowing halo

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

The tiny blooms of Diapensia laponica are a special treat for fieldwork in #Labrador. The stems are only 1-3cm tall. The little flowers look robust, but I've learned they only last a few days in the short northern summer. #botany #photography #Makkovik

Two white flowers angled up and slightly away from each other, held above a carpet of reddish round leaves.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

One of my perennial favourites, Gray's #sedge, looking handsome in my garden earlier this month. #botany #Photography

Two lush green spikelets, the 'fruits' (perigynia) radiating out to create a morning star pattern. The spikelets are cradled by linear leaves crossing the frame from lower left to upper right

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

I have discovered a forbidden category red relic from the before-times

A paper book, opened to show two columns of text. The rows are ordered alphabetically, each starting with what appears to be a name on the left, and connected by a row of dots to a seven digit number on the right. The numbers are formatted as a triplet followed by a quadruplet, separated by a hyphen.

Some of the rows are set in a larger bold font. One of them is highlighted in yellow.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Debugging the central loop in our analysis: - Found two obscure bugs in #rstats packages - chased down the errors - submitted patches - determined neither bug was actually impacting our analyses - resubmitted our jobs after (hopefully) correcting the real issue 🤞 #hpc

A screen shot showing dozens of jobs running on an HPC cluster

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

on a bit of a cleaning kick, started putting things away in labeled boxes

A surly looking kitten sitting in a box labeled 'kitten'

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

This is Pipsi! Pipsi is the sound she makes, and also an Inuit snack made by drying fish in the sun. Pipsi the kitten's breath does bring Pipsi the fish to mind 👃

A white kitten with black patches covering the top part of her head sits alertly in a cat bed. Her face is framed by green mottled leaves.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Looking through old photos I found this 'throw-away' cellphone pic that might be one of the best images I've ever captured! #photography

Two black and white dogs peer intently through a window into the dark. In the warmly lit room behind them is a banner that reads "happy birthday", hanging above a dining table set to receive guests that haven't yet arrived. A mirror hangs on the far wall, reflecting the backs of the dogs and the window they're perched in.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Bowser playing in the snow last weekend. One of the first non-macro outings I've done with the #M43 #OM1. Pretty pleased with the resolution and dynamic range. Captured a fair bit of detail in Bowser's black fur without blowing out any of the snow. There's […] [Original post on ottawa.place]

A large black and tan dog lying in the snow, facing the camera. His Head is up and he's looking into the lens. His front legs are splayed on either side of a grubby lime green tennis ball.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

It turns out i have taken a lot of sedge pictures in the digital era. Prepping for a talk, and I was fretting that all my images were on 35mm slides. #botany #photography

A sedge, Carex lurida, with three female spikelets sticking out at jaunty angles. The male spike stands upright atop the stem. The backdrop is a green wash of blurred leaves and perigynia, much as I expect heaven will appear.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

#RTO update. Only a few hundred people work in our building, where "room temperature" is currently 12C

A digital thermometer showing the temperature is 12C

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Meanwhile the community gardens continue to grow. Great to see people claiming their space with personalized signs! #CommunityGardens #NorthernAgriculture #Makkovik

A row of raised beds, each covered by a hoop of white shade cloth. The nearest bed has a hand-painted sign on a rock. The sign features bright folksy fruits and veggies, a proclaims this as Margie's plot

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Despite the late start this spring, the bakeapples are nearly ready to pick. We'll be able to get our surveys done no problem. Photography may be more of a challenge, as the flies are plentiful and voracious! #NewfoundlandAndLabrador #botany #Photography #berries

A patch of bakeapples. Nine berries in various stages of development, from small hard ovaries covered by beige sepals, to bright orange red fruit pushing the sepals apart. When they're fully ripe the sepals will reflex, pointing downwards, presenting the colourful berries for display and picking.

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

A little editing project: straight out of camera vs after editing, to be printed at 12"x18". One of my favourites from my June trip to #Labrador. Perfect timing catching the sunlight filtering through the alders onto this single bakeapple bloom. #botany #Photography

Before: a 15 image stack, as processed by the camera.

A white flower with four petals and several dozen yellow anthers in a spotlight of sunshine. The flower is glowing, with reddish green half-unfurled leaves cradling it in the shadows.

After: the same image, after editing each of the 15 images in RawTherapee, stacking in ZereneStacker, and a final tweak of the composite image in RawTherapee.

The light on the flower is brighter, and the colour more vibrant, the contrast with the gloomy backdrop bringing more contrast to the scene

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Tyler Smith 🫐🫒 @plantarum.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Another portrait of Pinguicula villosa. The flower is less than 1 cm from the edge of the bottom lip to the tip of the spur! I needed 40 shots to get the whole flower in focus. #botany #photography #NewfoundlandLabrador

A single purple flower. The petals are bilabiate, with three lobes pointing downards, and two pointing up. The petals are pale purple, with a yellow patch streaked with dark purple at the throat. A tubular spur points upwards behind the flower.

The flower stalk is covered with tiny gland-tipped hairs.

Framing the flower on either side are Empetrum (crowberry or blackberry) twigs. The Empetrum leaves are less than 1 cm long themselves, but the branches tower over the tiny Pinguicula stem.

40 image stack

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