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blueprint for new imaginings aka playing in the st

blueprint for new imaginings aka playing in the studio.

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #wip

irresistible force I have a stack of sheet film

irresistible force

I have a stack of sheet film duds from demos and was inspired to play. This one has (old) cyanotype chemistry, and the you can still see some of the latent image in it.

#NothingIsOrdinary #artifacts #FilmIsNotDead #wip #cyanotype

Thanks @photoedmagazine for including Content Awar

Thanks @photoedmagazine for including Content Aware Garden in the Botanicals SE Issue!

Curated by Peppa Martin this print issue (and extended digital edition) are packed beautiful botanical photo-based works by Canadian artists.

#NothingIsOrdinary #PlantBasedArt #ContentAware #CanadianMagazine

Cleanse Fold & Manipulate, 04/2020 Making images

Cleanse Fold & Manipulate, 04/2020

Making images with time, photographic techniques, and materials; and something about that time/this time.

The title is from a Skinny Puppy record - their show in 1990 at the Concert Hall, is still one of the best concerts I have ever been too.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #artifacts #SlowLooking

This is my favourite abandoned farmhouse to photog

This is my favourite abandoned farmhouse to photograph. Perhaps because it’s still there, or simply because it’s so beautiful every time I stop to visit.

I even had a chance meeting with the daughter-in-law of the family who used to live here, who said the family merely upgraded and left the house for the elements. And of course there is a skeleton of a piano inside.

It too, will be test printed as a palladium this week.

#NothingIsOrdinary #RUREX #wip #all_is_abandoned #ExploreEverywhere #composite

The green house. I am thinking this needs to to be

The green house. I am thinking this needs to to become a palladium print soon.

Highway-edge abandoned homes and lands leave so many unanswered questions. Did the house come before the highway? Why did they live here? Did they choose to leave? What does it look like inside?!?…

#NothingIsOrdinary #Urbex #all_is_abandoned #wip

Cyanotypes in the wild. #NothingIsOrdinary #Paste

Cyanotypes in the wild.

#NothingIsOrdinary #PasteUps #StreetArt #Cyanotype #Toronto

I finally got to see (and photograph!) the bottom

I finally got to see (and photograph!) the bottom of Guelph Lake.

Guelph Lake is a “man-made” reservoir of the Speed River, completed in 1976.

The bottom features an aggregate site, roads lined with tree stumps, tires, a boat, tires, and farm lands - the later of which the owners were not happy to have to leave.

Apparently the lake may be low for a little longer and I am definitely going to return to explore the site on foot. (But I have to admit I am biased to the drone POV).

#NothingIsOrdinary #MavicMini #DroningTheWorld #ExploreEverywhere #Guelph

I have been hoping to photograph the submerged far

I have been hoping to photograph the submerged farm lands and gravel pit roads lined with tree stumps of the Guelph Lake Reservoir for a couple years, but I always arrive a day late.
By chance I was riding in the area on the weekend with my drone, and voila! - there were roads, gravel pits, and tires!

The Guelph Lake Conservation Area is a man-made reservoir on the Speed River created in 1974.

#NothingIsOrdinary #DroningTheWorld #MavicMini #GuelphLake #Guelph

The tick house. I got to do some demo prep today

The tick house.

I got to do some demo prep today and here’s a Palladium print start to finish.

#NothingIsOrdinary #AlternativePhotography #palladium #urbex

something blue. This was in the “not-quite-righ

something blue.

This was in the “not-quite-right” pile for @fossil.hunting.collective ‘s Cyanotypes album art.

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #wip #AlternativePhotography

I finally felt human enough to go droning (stupid

I finally felt human enough to go droning (stupid covid). I missed the autumnal display of fall, but Guelph’s former Ontario Reformatory quarry was still beautiful to photograph.

I also got some video practice in using the spotlight mode - which I think looks robotic.

#NothingIsOrdinary #Guelph #ExploreEverywhere #DroningTheWorld #MavicMini

blood muscle #wip I found my stash of partially e

blood muscle #wip

I found my stash of partially exposed/somewhat manipulated, black and white sheet films to make images with, and this one is an interesting start.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #artifacts

Explore How to Draw a Tree, a story of wonder in n

Is this Eastern screech owl 🦉 not just the most

Is this Eastern screech owl 🦉 not just the most adorable bird?

#NothingIsOrdinary#EasternScreechOwl #OwlsOfInstagram #ExploreEverywhere

2022 vs 2020 Yesterday, by chance, I flew my drone

2022 vs 2020
Yesterday, by chance, I flew my drone over the same abandoned research site, on the same calendar day, 2 years apart.

There’s something about looking and time and being cognizant of both… blah blah blah.

These views are so much more intriguing in larger view.

#NothingIsOrdinary #DroningTheWorld #MavicMini #ExploreEverywhere

How to Draw a Tree will be part of @onculturedays

How to Draw a Tree will be part of @onculturedays this Saturday!

@thiswasnow.dawnmatheson
will walk with attendees and be available for reflections and questions afterwards.

Free. Oct 8. Meet at 1pm at the campus entrance to the @uogarboretum

Please note: participants need cellular data to access audio via QR code at the site.

The sound walk is also available online. [link in my bio]

#NothingIsOrdinary #soundwalk #HowToDrawATree #FindWonderInNature

Views of Baie du Doré including the Bruce Nuclear

Views of Baie du Doré including the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station and Lake Huron. Heated outflows of water from the station allow birds to overwinter here and i’ve been told by my in-laws this is a terrific spot to see eagles - although we’ve only seen gulls, snakes, and turtles so far.

Hopefully we’ll be able to trek back here in the winter.

#NothingIsOrdinary #MavicMini #DroningTheWorld #LakeHuron

Before and after flooring! I knew this weekend wo

Before and after flooring!
I knew this weekend would be off-the-hook fun times!

And now, shielded from the cold, we are ready to be productive…

Side note: I even tossed a small mountain of “things” AND I piled “things” to take to work to disseminate in the labs (analogue magic for everyone!!!!)!

#NothingIsOrdinary #DIY

Bike The Night Guelph with @the_gcat_insta 2022.

Bike The Night Guelph with @the_gcat_insta 2022.

I was preoccupied with marshalling so I ended up with a lot of photos of the backsides of people 🤪. But I did get to go to the Mayor’s office to take the group photo!

What a great night.

#NothingIsOrdinary #BikeTheNight

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