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Sandy McClearn
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P.Eng. + PMP. Warships IFR magazine contributor. Photography & Maritime History. Based in Nova Scotia. https://smcclearn.smugmug.com/ https://sandblings.blogspot.com/
#photography #shipping #warships #landscape #seascape #blackandwhite
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Sandy McClearn @sandymcclearn.bsky.social · Nov 11
A short intro for my first post - I'm an engineer, project manager, and photographer based in Nova Scotia. I will take photos of just about anything but there is often a maritime or nautical angle. I've put my Twitter account on hiatus and I'm trying some new platforms. Nice to meet you!
Man in a bright jacket standing next to a ship's rail with an iceberg floating on the sea in the background.
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It was a white Christmas on the South Shore of Nova Scotia this year. #photography #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #landscape #scape #snow #weather #winter #EastCoastKin
Photo of snow falling over a lake with an island in the background and reeds in the foreground.
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A shot from my heavyweight drone (aka the harbour bridge): Oceanex Sanderling and Felixstowe outbound from Halifax Harbour with car carrier ARC Honor inbound. #photography #ships #shipping #maritime #nautical #Halifax #NovaScotia #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyMonday
Three ships in one photo: two freighters headed away from the camera with a ship on the horizon and with cityscape on the right.
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Happy to receive the December issue of Warships IFR with my piece on the retirement of 8 of 12 of the RCN’s Kingston-class ships. Thanks to my editor for spreading it across 4 pages including some history & what’s next for replacement. Available at warshipsifr.com . #navy #naval #warships #writing
Warships IFR magazine cover showing a battleship firing a broadside. Magazine article header with a photo of an admiral speaking at a lectern with a Canadian flag in the background.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Surf seen from Cape Lighthouse on Cap-aux-Meules island, with the fishing village of L'Etange-du-Nord in the background. #scape #photography #landscape #seascape #surf #magdalens #IslesDeLaMadeleine #quebec #canada #EastCoastKin
Waves crash into sandstone cliffs with a farming village and fields in the background.
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Fishing boat on a slipway in Little Harbour on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. #photography #monochrome #classicmono #blackandwhite #fishing #boat #novascotia #harbour #landscape #nautical #maritime #EastCoastKin
Fishing boat on a slipway in a small fishing harbour.
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Radar reflectors on fishing buoys. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #nautical #fishing #novascotia #EastCoastKin
A group of radar reflector diamonds on posts leaning on an angle against a building.
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Fishing boat in Little Harbour near Owls Head, Nova Scotia. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono #silhouette #boat #fishing #shadows #reflections #novascotia #coastal #landscape #seascape #EastCoastKin
Small fishing boat in silhouette at a wharf with sun and clouds in the background.
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Snow drifts on the ice surrounding a small island in a pond on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. I thought it was a cool image - my wife says it looks like a pile of vomit. 😂 #winter #photography #drone #aerial #landscape #pond #ice #snow #cold #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin
Looking straight down at a small island surrounded by ice with light snow drifting on it in places.
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Carry Me Home

A slow spiral of iron and light —
quiet, patient,
and full of memory.

Some spaces don’t rush you.
They hold you.

#TherapyThroughMyLens
#TulipStaircase
#ArchitecturePhotography
#QuietBeauty
#MindfulPhotography
#LightAndShadow
#BnW
#blackandwhite
#photography
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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A mark
A pause
Edges fade
Something leans
Toward forward

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #ImageAndVerse
December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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'a Winter's Palette' (2025) -- Brunswick River Path, Brunswick, ME

'In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was, in me, an invincible summer' -- Albert Camus

#Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
A partially barren tree sits starkly on a snowy white river bank... Across the smooth expanse of a white river, the distant shore lined with dense beautiful forest
December 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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View from Pond Inlet on Baffin Island of a mountain on Bylot Island along the shore of Eclipse Sound. #photography #mono #classicmono #blackandwhite #monochrome #landscape #scape #mountain #cloud #north #arctic #baffinisland #pondinlet #EastCoastKin
Coastal mountain enshrouded with cloud.
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Carriage gears and wheels supporting an RML gun guarding the harbour entrance at York Redoubt in Halifax, Nova Scotia. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono #history #mechanical #mechanism #EastCoastKin
Mechanical gears and wheels on rails.
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Containership Atlantic Sun seen from Chebucto Head on departure from Halifax, Nova Scotia. #photography #ship #maritime #nautical #sea #trade #landscape #seascape #shipsinpics #EastCoastKin
Large container ship underway at sea with a rocky landscape in the foreground.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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More Sambro reflections - this time the Canadian Coast Guard rescue boat Hare Bay. #photography #reflection #water #coastguard #canadian #canada #waterline #mirror #boat #nautical #maritime #EastCoastKin
Hull of a red boat with a white stripe reflecting on calm water.
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Himalayan Flooflord!

Thanks for the mountain of love lately. I’ll find something other than mountains for the next posts! 😝✌🏽❤️

#stunday #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #art #mountains #scape #outdoor #landscape #stormhour #photohour #hiking #bluesky #sunday #blueskymonday #landscapephotography
A solitary white yak grazes quietly beneath the vast Himalayas, its heavy coat glowing against golden autumn trees and the immense sweep of snowy peaks rising in dramatic contrast behind it.
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Calm day at the wharf in Sambro, Nova Scotia. #photography #reflections #water #harbour #waterline #ship #boat #nautical #maritime #sambro #novascotia #blueskymonday #EastCoastKin
Load numbers at the waterline of a ship’s bow reflecting on calm water.
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Avon River autumn reflections. #photography #landscape #autumn #fallcolours #river #reflections #scape #EastCoastKin
Leaves floating on calm water reflecting the trees on either side of the river.
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Departure from Halifax Stanfield International Airport last week. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono #motionblur #aerial #aviation #propeller #halifax #novascotia #EastCoastKin
Spinning aircraft propeller set against a landscape from the air.
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Foundation Maritime’s deep sea salvage tug Foundation Franklin operated from Halifax in the 1930s & 1940s including the SWW, as told in Farley Mowat’s “The Grey Seas Under”. Some company archives photos are on my blog. #salvage #towing #maritime #history sandblings.blogspot.com/2025/11/foun...
Foundation Franklin
What eventually became a sizable fleet of salvage tugs and other vessels began in early 1930 when the former HMS Frisky, a Royal Navy fleet ...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Cloud and shadow over a winter landscape. #photography #aerial #cloud #monochrome #snow #blackandwhite #landscape #blackandwhitephotography #shadow #farmland #winter #EastCoastKin
Clouds cast shadows over snowy farm fields.
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Gatineau and the Gatineau River from the air on the approach to Ottawa last week. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #aerial #plane #landscape #gatineau #river #quebec #canada #EastCoastKin
Aerial view of a river running through an urban area.
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Stark Realities' (2025) -- Bright Hard Light Streams Through Tree Trunks at the Edge of the Forested Campsite, in the Distance a Few Camper / Trailers, Thomas Point Beach, Outer Brunswick, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
several spaced apart trees casting hard shadows from the bright light, their black twisted barren branches forming shapes against the white sky - in the distance in the snow covered parking lot at least 2 camper / trailers are parked
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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'Spitfire' (2014) -- Fredvang City Limits, Lofoten Archipelago, Arctic Norway

'One Day, All Dem Bags Gonna Get in Your Way...
So Pack Light' -- Erykah Badu

#Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a high contrast black and white image of a multi layered, descending aurora curtain at night, suspended high over the rocky fjords and lower cloud levels, high above the stars twinkle in the pitch black sky
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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'Traversing Huguenot' (2022) -- In Between Steep, Ascending Segments, a Level Path & Good Amounts of Cooling Shade, Mount Huguenot, Acadia National Park, ME

Fridays Are For #Scape ✨ & #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a narrow stone path, shrouded by foliage, dips in and out of shade along the steep rockface of mount huguenot
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM