Prairie Gothic... My fav catch today, on Jasper Ave. That genre includes themes that often include loss of traditional rural lifestyles, isolation, mortality, and the psychological pressure created by emptiness. For @wendymcgrath.bsky.social #streetphotography #classicmono #YEG #photography

On the #Edge of a Hangover... A Bohemian Waxwing dangles upside-down on the drunk berries. #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Birds #Nature #Spring #Birdoftheday #bluesky #YEG

Day Job Update... Recently I had breakfast with Jennifer Windsor, an #Edmonton #designer & #illustrator. We met when I ran a design agency in Edmonton. She donated laminated #wildlife posters to the charity-run school that I work for, that she created for a #CA client. Great learning resources. #YEG

This gave me very bad Alberta Separatism foreshadowing...

Kim + Poetry + Library = Awesome! Put that on the weekend plan list.

In A Big Country.... dreams stay with you— one May, running under the God clouds. #Scape #Landscapephotography #ForestFriday #Prairie #Photography #Eastcoastkin #eck #Nature #Sunsets #Pentax

Ground Control... to Major Tom. (This broke?)

Antique... "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." My mom was fond of that quote, back when the media was traditional. I saw this newspaper in the BC mountains in #Canada back in the day. It was gobbled up by a conglomerate. #classicmono #bnw #media #5thestate #photography

Handy... The old hand of a Tilesetter, a tradesman that laid tile in my house one spring. He had huge hands. #Alphabetchallenge #WeekOForOld #Cassicmono #Blackandwhite #Photography #Hands

Aqua Man... 10,000 leagues from the sea. #OutofPlace #10minutesfromhome #StreetArt #Mural #Pentax

It never gets old...unlike me. #sunsets #westernskies #photography #sky #nature

Old Barn... framed in old elm. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #YEG

100 Ring Sausage Reward Offered... #alberta

The kids are alright... Posting this not too pump up my family, but to highlight that I think this is actually pretty normal behaviour. And I'm sure it's going on in more than our house. Be kind. Kindness breeds kindness...

On Reflection... I spent my afternoon huffing through the #city looking for puddles. It was balmy-ish. This was the best shot: a goose in a puddle at the Alberta Legislature with a very pregnant graduate taking a selfie in the background. Chef's kiss to fate (again). #ableg #YEG #Photography #birds

Helping an election in Hungary isn't the same as helping the hungry...

Evergreen... The only green here are huddled, cold spruce. Above that: just rock, ice, storms and abyss. #naturallight #ColorADay #GreenSat #Springtime #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK #TheNorth #Mountains

"I'll have the deep fried half chicken that's larger than my face...and a side of defibrillator." #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense #Photography #Foodies

Stop Bluffing... A stand of frozen soft woods above the North Saskatchewan River. (Prairie scrub). "...young poets shiver inexperienced, thaw over their own work, fertilizing magic.” ― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking #ForestFriday #Verse #Photography #YEG #Nature #Art #TheNorth #CA #AB

Back To Dodgy Downtown Alleys... I'm no longer a public speaker. I'm back in my running shoes, slipping through moist alleys before work. The puddles are almost tidal now in places. #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBluesky #Eastcoastkin #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Spring #Edmonton

Thank You... to @kimmannix.bsky.social for asking me to participate in last night's 'Poetography' speaking event downtown. I enjoyed the evening. Kim is a great moderator; my fellow panelists were lovely. The venue? Perfect! My family came and didn't heckle me, until the drive home. 😉 #thanks #yeg

I kinda miss the war on protein...

These Are Times of Tensions... obviously but this segues into my last #Poetography event post. You see, a few thousand kilometers ago I noticed that #beauty is everywhere and that #joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Then I realized something else... #photography #yegarts #artyear #visualpoetics

"Don't pet that bunny, kids..." My dog is not a fan of #Easter. #dogs

She Has Risen... A lady walks under a #Easter coloured alley downtown. #streetphotography #YEG #iphone #photography #yegdt

Stunday... My son, on top of a mountain. He walked up the last 1/2 kilometer. Carrying his skis to the top on his shoulders; very #Easter. (With a pair of Old European ski tourists in tow.) "That kid can ski," the Europeans said, in multiple languages, wheezing. #stunday #mountains #skiing

It's my obligatory hype-up for #poetography, Round 3. My signature style of #photography is #minimalism. 'It’s amazing. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Everyone is talking about it.' Uggh. I find we're living in a moment of too much of everything, but mostly: there's too many fkn words.

Here's submission for today's theme of #Openings for #BlueSkyArtShow art challenge. 'A mountain lake, opening in spring...' 山間にある湖で、春に水が解ける。 A scene that seemed somehow very Japanese to me. #Photography #Nature #Scape #Reflections #Lakes #Banff #Spring #ECK

More Canada, Please... I took this shot outside Canmore, running towards #Banff one morning in April 2015. I'd only been running two years then. I remember how sore I was in the mornings. It was still a hobby, to break bad habits. Have a 'Good' Friday. #forestfriday #CA #photography #nature #Canada

Poetography... I'm in an event next week with 2 other #artists. I've enjoyed preparing for this because it's new & different. Truthfully, I don't speak/think about my #photography much, IRL. Externally, anyway. This is my 1st post on my #poetic eye (affliction) with examples. More: shorturl.at/l1PWv

The Italian Job... #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMovies #Photography #Edmonton

If you don't add a beet under your daughter's dimly lit breakfast placemat, every April 1st, for 15 years, are you even a Dad? 😜 #aprilfools

April is #poetry month in #edmonton. On April 7, I'm joining Wendy & Tricia to speak about how poetics can be seen as influencing & cross pollinating #photography. It's a free evening of talk around the fascinating intersections between poetry & photography, in #yegdt. Learn More shorturl.at/wqv3d

Stumped... "You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.” ― Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves #humansofbluesky #streetphotography #bnw #classicmono #moments #trees #blackandwhitephotography #YEG #photography

Looking Around... March decided to go out like a glacier — like some awful, prehistorically slow, ice-steaming glacier. She'd had enough. She refused to melt. #photography #sunrise #goodmorning #edmonton #beauty #dawn #sensoryart #alone #ECK #BlueskyPhotography

Word On The Street... in Old Strathcona. #YEG

"Notice the silence. Notice your heart. It’s still beating. Still fighting. Now get back to work. Work with your mind sharp. Then take a shower, wash off the day." ― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Fine #ImageAndVerse #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLayers #BlueskyArtShow #ECK #Photography #Prairie

One of many great #EdmontonPoetryFestival events happening in April! We're so happy to collaborate with and shine the spotlight on the wealth of creative talent in #YEG!

On Tues, April 7 I'm part of a #free 'Poetography' #Edmonton event. I was asked by 'the #poetess with the mostest' @kimmannix.bsky.social (that's cringe but it rhymes!). I'm 1 of 3 'poetry-aligned' artists talking. This is how I see my #photography fitting the topic. Hope 2 👀 u. #yegevents #yegarts

West Coast Dusk... Smokey blue layers of hills, trees and clouds as the sun goes down in Saanich, on Vancouver Island. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers #ForestFriday #Photography #BC #Scape

Day Job Update... wanted to share a coordinated visit at Inner City High School with Alaynee Goodwill-Littlechild, TD Curator of #Indigenous Creativity from the #Art Gallery of #Alberta. Came to the school and gave her time, graciously with youth. In a (very) good way. #thankyou #hiyhiy #YEG #AB

Apparently I saved one tweet from Twitter. I just found it. #YEG

"You slowly become the weather... you live in." A frozen tree in a field, in ice fog. Wind chill -19C this morning and -11C this afternoon. Will to Live Index, 2 or low... Sigh. #Blackandwhite #Landscapephotography #Classicmono #bnw #Nature #Noiretblanc #Pentax #Photography #YEG #Alberta

Getting Red(y)… In 2 weeks, I'm showing some photos downtown. I've been invited to participate in an evening of '𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲', part of the #Edmonton #Poetry Festival, with 2 other poetry-aligned artists. April 7, 7pm. It's free.❤️ #WindowsonWednesday #WallsonWednesday #YEG #Wow #Coloraday #RedWed

People say, "I'm here for..." and I never say that — but today I watched Mark Carney speak Japanese in what seemed to be a respectful way, in a respectful moment, and I said to myself, "I'm actually here for... this."

Rockin' Shoe... Note the stone wedged in the three circles of my running shoe. Maddening. (Probably one in my kidney too...). Last month's stats on running included so you know how I collect my images. ✌️ #classicmono #rockintuesday #blackandwhite #running #monochrome #photography #eastcoastkin #YEG

Fog Advisory... There's a yellow fog advisory posted this morning which is a zero visibility warning, I think. I'm charging all my cameras and waiting for the sun to come up. Fog days on a weekend are like winning the lottery. #Stunday #Photography #Fog #Classicmono #Bnw #Trees #Reflections #YEG

Elm Trunk in Spring Ice... Seemed very 'wabi-sabi' to me - from the #buddhist teaching of 'the three marks' of existence: impermanence, suffering, emptiness. A Saturday scene that reminded me to celebrate solitude. #wabisabi #classicmono #bnw #blackandwhite #photography #minimal #ECK #spring #YEG

I've noticed my eye is interested in broken things. I am intrigued by the aesthetic of failure. Is something broken, #kaput? Rightly or wrongly, I'd say too often, yes. #Alphabetchallenge #WeekKForKaput #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #Observations

The Equality of Light Returns.... - equal parts daylight & darkness happen today, as it's Spring Equinox. We actually get the most snow here in spring. This is a photo of a memorable April snowfall in 2022. #ForestFriday #Woodlands #Springequinox #Trees #Photography #ECK #YEG #Spring #CA #Nature