Side Projects

Things I've built and projects I work on outside of photography.

SIDE PROJECTS

28 April 2026

EcoScapes

EcoScapes is a Nature Squamish project showcasing the wildlife and natural habitats of Squamish, British Columbia, connecting people with the ecosystems on their doorstep.

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Niall Bell

30 May 2026

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Photographic Printing

I've long been interested in analogue photography techniques, and I shoot film often. I recently started to build up the knowledge and skills to make prints from my own negatives.

NumBird - iOS App

NumBird is an app for iOS which takes a users eBird data and performs a range of data analysis to present the data and allow the user to analyse their birding history.

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Niall Bell

1 January 2024

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Nature Squamish: Bird Count Portal

The Nature Squamish Monthly Bird Count is a community even run by Nature Squamish each month in the Squamish Estuary. Since the count started in 1991, over 400 months of bird observation data has been collected by volunteers over many thousands of hours. I created this data portal to take this data in it's raw form, and make it accessible to anyone who is interested to browse and explore.

OpenBat - iOS App

OpenBat is a free iOS app that turns a compatible ultrasonic USB microphone into a live bat detector! It captures audio at up to 384 kHz, shows a real-time spectrogram, detects individual echolocation pulses and, where an available open-source machine learning model exists for the region, suggests species IDs for the bats you are hearing, all on-device

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