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photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · Oct 8

Greetings from Toronto on this #PortfolioDay!

My name is Blair and I'm a photographer of urban, rural and minimalist subjects with a particular interest in the unappreciated beauty of public transportation.

A Queen Streetcar at daybreak in Toronto Ontario

Wispy clouds over Woodbine Beach in Toronto Ontario

A foggy view of a subway car from the inside of another

Tiles at Dufferin Station in Toronto Ontario, one of which says "Come Share Your Stories"

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.mar

@marshoots.bsky.social

If you see this, post your bird art.

November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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If you see this, post your bird art.

Dominican Pelican (from the Great Hiatus of 2025).

#BirdsOfBluesky #Photography

A brown pelican lands on the Carribean Sea near Bayahibe, Dominican Republic

November 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦

@nancybennett.bsky.social

If you see this, post your bird art.
I only have one so here it is -

Very rough painting, painted with a palette knife. Thin branches across grey, white and green background, red flecks of berries or small leaves covered with snow. In the bottom right corner is a cardinal, bright red with yellow beak.

November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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Ande B

@ande91.bsky.social

Beautiful journal.

November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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@photoblair.bsky.social

* Casey Kasem voice *

"Number 1 but sinking fast..."

The Recent Current Playlist @recentplaylist.bsky.social · 8h

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
Album: "Summertime Dream"
Time: 7:32 pm

November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM

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Jenny Emelie

@jennyemelie.bsky.social

I think if trees could have ADHD they'd look like a good chunk of Toronto's trees did today: freaking the fuck out and desperately trying to drop all their leaves in one go because they misplaced their Winter is Coming memo.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Urban #Photography #Toronto #EastCoastKin

A tree with yellow leaves in front of a grey building on The U of T St George campus. The lawn and shrubs are covered in snow. The white snow is being overtaken by yellow leaves dropping rapidly from the tree.

November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Daemon/ Dae/ Bunny / Bunne

@daemonaac.bsky.social

Foggy morning

A photograph from my mom of farmland outside Middleburg, VA, this month. So early in the morning the fog that's collected in every dip and crease of the gentle hills has yet to burn away. (false dawn photograph of a small stone building and a grassy slope, beyond which are only layers of fog extending into the distance, where tree tops can be distantly seen, showing through, and a silver blue sky with rosy light just peeping over the edge of the left of the shot)

November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM

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skinskin

@skinskintainan.bsky.social

light from the window

#art #photo #photography #window #LightAndShadow #Tainan #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin

November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Jamie Glass

@jglass8.bsky.social

Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs - Gordon Lightfoot

#sundown #MondayBlues #BlueSkyMonday #lyrics #clouds #sunset #colors #photography #skyscape #beautifulthings #eastcoastkin #peace #goodnight #photographersofbluesky

November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM

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Rebecca, House of Ogg

@earthlingnoreally.bsky.social

#NatureIsArt

Fluffy Chrysanthemum Xing - today

#Phonetography
#flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #planterthere #fallenhoney

Close-up of snow covered chrysanthemum x morifolum in autumn. Fallen honey locust tree stems stick out on top of the snow. There's a crosswalk X light reflected in the storefront window behind the flowers.

November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM

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Toronto Boris

@torontoboris.bsky.social

A rather somber piece of cartography. A map with details of every soldier from the city of Toronto and fell in WW2.

Really brings into perspective the sacrifice paid citizenry of Toronto for the greater good. Also a morbid reminder of how compact the city was back then.

#maps #RememberanceDay

Toronto Second World War casualty map - Google My Maps

Toronto Second World War casualty map

www.google.com

November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Toronto Railway Museum

@torailwaymuseum.bsky.social

Nov 10, 1975: the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a severe storm off Whitefish Point on Lake Superior. The 729 ft. (222 m) iron-ore carrier's entire crew of 29 was lost, including her very experienced and respected Canadian-born captain, Ernest M. McSorley. 1/2

The Great Lakes ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the St. Mary's River, summer 1975. Photo by Bob Campbell, Marine Historical Society of Detroit.

November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM

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Tom Cosgrove

@cosgrovetc.bsky.social

The blazing sun above a barn, silo and a row of trees makes them appear black against the sky.

November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM

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Gord vs. Dork.

#GordonLightfoot #EdmundFitzgerald50

Gordon Lightfoot and person who couldn't escape him on CKEY AM radio growing up at a signing for his Massey Hall Moments CD at Indigo Books in Toronto in April 2012

November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦

@walkoflife.bsky.social

Most Toronto pic ever? #Toronto

November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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Steve Quick

@stevequick.bsky.social

If you're having trouble getting that Edmund Fitzgerald earworm out of your head, know that the ship sank because everybody was Kung Fu fighting. Those cats were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, but they fought with expert timing.

November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM