Wandering Stanley Park, part 1

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I stopped regularity bringing my camera out birding a year or more ago. In part because it’s a distraction, but also because it is heavy.

On top of that, knowing that any photographs I post here (and anything I write as well) will be stolen and dumped into the slurry of data being feed to LLMs by amoral companies doesn’t encourage me to share.

Generating synthetic text and images may appear as harmless fun, but there are serious repercussions when they accidentally or intentionally start polluting discourse and data. Two recent articles I’d recommend reading:

Defending Human Conservation Photography & Art in the Age of AI
From Truth to Fake: The Threat of AI to Media Archives

With that said, here are some recent photography from Stanley Park.

Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)

Red-necked Phalarope (*Phalaropus lobatus*)

Red-necked Phalaropes are only slightly larger than House Sparrows, but spend upwards of nine months of the year in the open ocean. I was lucky to see this one passing through on migration.

Stanley Park on

Wandering Stanley Park, part 1

Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)