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Results from a new to me 4x5, on CATlabs 80 film,

Results from a new to me 4x5, on CATlabs 80 film, processed with a MOD54 film holder for a paterson tank.

I am aching for time at the lake with fog or clouds, and wind.

#NothingIsOrdinary #catlabsxfilm80 #Toyo45 #FilmIsNotDead
#MOD54 #LakeHuron

Photos taken every Friday from my office window fr

Photos taken every Friday from my office window from Aug 2021 until when I mailed them as a flip book in early 2022 as a @sendygetty.

#NothingIsOrdinary #SendyGetty #Window
#FlipBook

How to Draw a Tree sound walks will be part of Ont

How to Draw a Tree sound walks will be part of Ontario Culture Days.
In person, self guided walks start at the trailhead in the @uogarboretum campus parking lot (look for the poster & QR code).
You will need headphones and a mobile phone.
Virtual audio/visual tours are also a available at HowToDrawATree.ca (link in bio).

@thiswasnow.dawnmatheson

#NothingIsOrdinary #soundwalks #ArboretumGuelph

Drive-by bando. March 2021 - Sept 2023 This hous

Drive-by bando.
March 2021 - Sept 2023

This house is on our route to clinic in Hamilton and taking snapshots as we drive by it has become a sport. But it’s demise prompts the question of why houses like this one can fall into severe decay while we are in a housing crisis.

I also formally photographed the house to make a palladium print and my friend @annagtprint scored a free tick from the property! 🤪 Be careful when you #RUREX folks, it’s ticky out there.

#NothingIsOrdinary #all_is_abandoned

It is late in the season to be making art with the

It is late in the season to be making art with the sun. But I have had cyanolumens on my to do list since the beginning of summer…

This one reminds me of the first photo (a daguerreotype) ever taken of the moon in 1940 by chemist John W. Draper- that is suspected to have been captured in the daytime (for the moon) employs a mask, and a second exposure for the night sky (see second pic).

#NothingIsOrdinary
#cyanolumen #moon #celestialobjects

We found a monarch caterpillar 🐛on a milkweed p

We found a monarch caterpillar 🐛on a milkweed plant at a garden centre, so naturally we brought it home and planted the milkweed and caterpillar in the garden. The very next day we found it in it’s J phase, (but we missed the pupate stage); however, I was lucky enough to see it just after eclosion from the chrysalis and pump fluid through her wings to take butterfly shape!

Fun fact: late season Monarch butterflies are the ones that travel ~3000km to Mexico!

🐛🦋⚡️

#NothingIsOrdinary #monarchcaterpillar #monarchbutterfly

WOW! I can’t beleive tomorrow is the launch day

WOW! I can’t beleive tomorrow is the launch day for How to Draw a Tree 🌲- the participatory audio project made up by my friend Dawn Matheson of FOUR sound walks following mapped routes in the @uogarboretum !

Join us at 1:30 at Arb Expo, or check out the virtual versions of the walks (by moi) and sound tracks by Jeff Bird at HowToDrawATree.ca (link in bio).

Thank you to Jordie Lescard, @carey_west , and Abhiraj Dadiyan for trusting me to visualize your walks; and to @thiswasnow.dawnmatheson for including me in this beautiful project.

🌲Cheers to the trees. 🌳

#NothingIsOrdinary #HowToDrawATree #SoundWalks #Trees #Lumen #Lumenprint
#ArboretumGuelph

ALT: Decorative lumen prints of tree leaves.

“How to Draw a Tree” is a participatory art pr

“How to Draw a Tree” is a participatory art project led by interdisciplinary artist @thiswasnow.dawnmatheson and brings individuals living with mental illnesses together with trees for a year-long creative, care-taking, reciprocal engagement culminating in an immersive public sound walk at the @uogarboretum as well as online created by me!

This Saturday join us for the launch of the 4 site-specific sound walks in The Arboretum. You will need your cellphone & headphones (and maybe bug spray, sunscreen, and water!)

We meet at 1:30pm at the Arb Gazebo & we depart on walks at 2pm from the Campus entrance Kiosk.

At 3:30pm we’ll plant trees on the Johnston Green backed by a live performance by Soundbound!

Everyone is welcome.

#NothingIsOrdinary #soundwalk #HowToDrawATree

Happy Supermoon! 🌕 The moon is 357,344 km away

Happy Supermoon! 🌕
The moon is 357,344 km away from us on Earth,and 28,968 km closer than its average distance. It’s also the second full moon of the month so it’s also a Blue Moon.

This spot has been calling out for some sort of art intervention and one thing (finally) led to another.

Thanks to @annagtprint for the assistance in making it happen!

photo 4 is the supermoon at it’s peak tonight.

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #supermoon #bluemoon

After a short warmup of a stretches to limber up,

After a short warmup of a stretches to limber up, Avery Goodcall surveyed the traffic choked intersection of Bathurst and Richmond from the sidewalk. The traffic light was red, a car was on the crosswalk, he blew his whistle and sprang into action, serving a yellow card to the driver who heeded the warning with bemusement.

My friend @mrtineaux and his hilarious performance Crosswalk Referee (as Avery Goodcall) went absolutely viral this weekend.

Crosswalk Referee uses humour and wit to respond to the chaos of Toronto intersections filled with single occupant vehicles gridlocked throughout the downtown core at “rush hour” and especially during special events like the Women’s FIFA in July, that impede access to the streets for pedestrians and bike riders.

The performance is meant to both amuse and prompt us to care about each other.

He kept Goodcall a secret the day of our shoot until the moment he stripped off his trackie to reveal a referee’s uniform and assumed the character of Goodcall. Martin was absolutely delightful to witness in acton, and like all referees, almost impossible to keep up with!

⚡️⚽️💛
#NothingIsOrdinary #MartinReis #CrosswalkReferee #PerformanceArt

Can you spot the TLR Club? The former Mighty Mar

Can you spot the TLR Club?

The former Mighty Marmoraton Mine is 850 metres long, 450 metres wide and 213 metres deep (see historical photo 2).

There is a proposal to convert the abandoned Marmoraton Mine into hydro storage.

#NothingIsOrdinary #DroningTheWorld #MavicMini #TLRclub #ExploreEverywhere

25 years of going steady with this gorgeous human

25 years of going steady with this gorgeous human (@fossil.hunting.collective).

🖤🌈⚡️

#NothingIsOrdinary #PossiblyVintage #LikelyJustOld

I am fascinated by the fasciation of this echinace

I am fascinated by the fasciation of this echinacea bloom in our garden.

Scientists aren’t sure what causes the deformity, but it is thought it is could be caused by a hormonal imbalance that may be the result of a random mutation, or caused by insects, diseases, or physical injury to the plant.

Whatever the cause it’s aleatory, and I love it.

#NothingIsOrdinary #echinacea #fasciation #GardenMagic

planetary neighbors before the ingestion. #Nothi

planetary neighbors before the ingestion.

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #kozuke #space #CelestialObjects #MagneticFields

Latent images of ☀️and 🌕 light from May and

Latent images of ☀️and 🌕 light from May and June 2023.

I left an open box of practice film in front of the door split of a cupboard in my lab and magic happened. The first sheet was on top, the second was just below.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #Ilford

halos. Inspired by a sun halo I encountered (than $halos. Inspired by a sun halo I encountered (thank @mike_darmon !) earlier this summer. Sun and moon halos are a rainbow-like optical phenomenon that form when high altitude ice crystals suspended in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds reflect and refract sunlight. The light is bent at a 22 ° angle creating a circular halo. #NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #kozuke$

North Line house and willow tree 2023. #NothingIs

North Line house and willow tree 2023.

#NothingIsOrdinary #all_is_abandoned #rurex #MavicMini #DroningTheWorld

The suburbs. I biked by this crowded parking lot

The suburbs.

I biked by this crowded parking lot in a neighbourhood I didn’t know and noted a kids ball game in the distance. The road ended a block and a half later at a no trespassing sign that I determined to be a sign to stop to take my drone up. It was all corn beyond the sign and plane after plane in the sky.

#NothingIsOrdinary #DroningTheWorld #MavicMini #dji

Blue, the @g44photo members exhibition curated by

Blue, the @g44photo members exhibition curated by @etheriel runs until this Saturday, July 29.

Thank you to @raidendingo for the beautiful 📷 documentation.

#NothingIsOrdinary #Gallery44 #blue #cyanotype

things. Land use, resources, and carbon sinks. s

things.

Land use, resources, and carbon sinks.

sculpture in the wild?

#NothingIsOrdinary

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