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@syncros.bsky.social
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a photographer and techie living in Toronto. I used to shoot rolls of film and use BBSes, now I'm here. I focus on infrared landscape and street photography, two great ways to get me off the couch.
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I'll be Frank with you 🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · Aug 19
For #WorldPhotographyDay I'd like to share my favorite image I've taken this year.

#Toronto harbour froze after weeks of negative temps, I decided to do a photo day on the islands in February. A snowstorm started and the cityscape disappeared, but as I ventured out onto the ice, it revealed itself.
a mother and child, who i do not know, were standing on the frozen lake against the cityscape of Toronto during a snowstorm. I had been waiting for a composition like this to appear, its why I ventured onto the frozen lake. Pic taken Sunday Feb 2 2025.
syncros.bsky.social
Spending Valentine's Day with a Dead Lover in glorious Stink-o-Vision at @tiffnet.bsky.social
Dead lover front of card Numbers 1 through 10 for different smells during the movie. I am afraid.
February 15, 2026 at 1:47 AM
syncros.bsky.social
Yellow and Blue and Infrared

Toronto Islands, 01/30/26
#infrared #fullspectrum
a normal colour picture from my phone of the yellow and blue garage and white houseboat a infrared picture from my converted camera of the yellow and blue garage and white houseboat, which shows up differently in this picture taken at approximately 690nm.
February 14, 2026 at 7:11 PM
syncros.bsky.social
Deep Freeze at Centre Island Pier.

Infrared photographs.
#toronto #infrared #fullspectrum
heavy lake ice forms on the concrete pontoons holding the pier up, note how they look in infrared, very otherworldly view under the pier of the icicles wide view under the bridge showing the ice shelf buildup, like its some surreal ice planet wide view of the elephant feet on the pier's concrete
February 14, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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photoblair.bsky.social
Evening Dusting.

#Toronto #Streetcar #Photography
Sleeping streetcars sit at the Russell Barns carhouse during a gentle snowfall
February 14, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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rudydotca.bsky.social
Line 5 art installation at Eglinton station

i had no idea Line 5 was so ridiculously deep below Line 1

#Toronto
an art installation that looks like a broken mirror, covering an entire wall in the escalator shaft between Line 5 and Line 1 at Eglinton station
February 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
syncros.bsky.social
Frozen Houseboat

Infrared photograph
#infrared #fullspectrum #toronto
steps through the snow leading to a white houseboat, in the frozen Long Pond at Algonquin Island in Toronto Canada
February 13, 2026 at 9:15 PM
syncros.bsky.social
Skating the Lake

Infrared photograph
#infrared #fullspectrum #toronto
a skater flys by on solid lake ice (which reflects little infrared, so appears near black)against the toronto skyline. 01/30/26
February 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Path to the City

Infrared photograph
#toronto #infrared #fullspectrum
a view of frozen lake ontario at the sunfish cut on toronto island with the skyline visible behind. Taken 01/30/26
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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cageyratfish.bsky.social
they're from Saguenay, Québec & describe their sound as
MANTRA-ROCK DADA PYTHAGO-CUBISTE.
February 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
syncros.bsky.social
🚨 Project Hail Mary in IMAX 70mm at Vaughan Cineplex tickets are now available and going fast!
Screenshot of the Cineplex app showing tickets for project Hail Mary
February 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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castingoutloud.bsky.social
Night Games
#Scape #UrbanGaze
#EastCoastKin by the #ForestHillbilly
Snow covered bleachers lit by streetlights overlooking a temporary domed structure constructed on a North American Football (not soccer) Field St. Michael’s College Forest Hill Toronto Person existing a temporary domed structure constructed on a North American Football (not soccer) Field St. Michael’s College Forest Hill Toronto Open gate overlooking a temporary domed structure constructed on a North American Football (not soccer) Field St. Michael’s College Forest Hill Toronto
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
syncros.bsky.social
What they don't tell you about parenting is that when they're young adults they can drop *you* off at the concert. Should I ask to be let off a block away?
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
syncros.bsky.social
Choose wisely, friends.
Olaf the cat with big blue eyes above my favourite CBC logo mug.
February 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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gambolloch.bsky.social
New York is cold, but I like where I’m living
#photography
A snow lined narrow street in Manhattan. There’s a bike leaning against a brick wall and green wooden covered bridge crosses over the street. This is Staple St which is two miles from Clinton Street. I don’t live on either street. Leonard Cohen is long dead and his songs live rent free in my head.
February 12, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
We have a few swans here. This sounded like free improv jazz
a whole mess of trumpeter Swans, with some miscellaneous ducks scattered in there, on open water with a snow in the foreground.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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photoblair.bsky.social
KENNEDY (2020).

#Toronto #Subway #Signage #Photography
A long exposure of a Bloor-Danforth subway train entering Kennedy Station with the station name barely visible in the background
February 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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torontoboris.bsky.social
A Checkered past

Toronto, Ontario - Nov 2019

Keeping up with my personal theme for a week, another abandoned laneway beauty. A Checker Marathon, once an ubiquitous NYC taxi cab, now a relic rusting idle

#LanewayTO #classiccars #abandoned #Alleyway #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto
She's been here for as long as I can remember. Rusting away into the ether.
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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katebueckert.bsky.social
Our oldest just said they’re doing a history project on Jean Chrétien because he’s “the inventor of the Shawinigan Handshake and also was prime minister” and I have never been more proud.
February 10, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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beetlenaut.bsky.social
𝔸𝕃𝔹𝕌𝕄 𝔻ℝ𝕆ℙ!

𝙅𝙖𝙯𝙯𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙠 - 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙀𝙋 is out!

To celebrate the Jazzpunk's 12th anniversary I'm releasing a selection of 'lost tracks' + extended cuts, which focus on the darker/industrial side of the Jazzpunk Soundtrack

Grab it on Bandcamp!

jazzpunk.bandcamp.com/album/jazzpu...
Jazzpunk - Night City Sessions, by Luis Hernandez
14 track album
jazzpunk.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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veilletteinto.bsky.social
For CBC Arts, I pop into the history of the cinema snack bar. Once protested —“We are sorry to see our favourite movie house so undignified after many pleasant years,” someone once wrote in the Toronto Star— popcorn has since become a lifeline for a precarious industry.

www.cbc.ca/arts/movie-s...
Movie snack stands were once protested. Now they’re keeping the lights on | CBC Arts
During the Great Depression, film exhibitors were desperate for sales and started selling ‘carnival snacks’ like popcorn. Concessions have since become integral to the culture — and commerce — of cine...
www.cbc.ca
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
syncros.bsky.social
Remember when the Eaton Centre had trees, and benches?
torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca · 4d
On this day in 1977, the Toronto Eaton Centre opened! Designed by Zeidler Partnership and Bregman and Hamann, the huge light-filled complex opened in multiple stages, with phase 2 extending the mall to Queen Street a couple of years later.

From the Harvey R. Naylor fonds: https://ow.ly/ocv050YarBU
Mall interior with an elevated dining balcony surrounded by potted plants. Fonds 1526, File 92, Item 5. View up to the high glass curved ceiling of a mall atrium, creating a light-filled space. Large plants along a mezzanine of shops. Fonds 1526, File 92, Item 14. Exterior of the TorontoEaton Centre when the building is newly opened. Large multi-storey building with a beige and glass exterior. Fonds 1526, File 84, Item 162. View looking down to a long dining area in a mall on a balcony line with potted plants. The tables are set with cutlery, glasses and napkins. Fonds 1526, File 92, Item 6.
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
syncros.bsky.social
Age verification? "Please be kind, Rewind"
robcruickshank.bsky.social Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 4d
Age verification? It was just "arcade" not "video arcade".
dcapto.bsky.social DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 5d
Age verification?

I had to blow on video game cartridges to make them work.
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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cmackto.bsky.social
📍Kew Beach #toronto #lakeontario
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
syncros.bsky.social
Flexity, the Cadillac of Transportation.
a flexity streetcar behind a stretch limousine made out of a Cadillac, richmond st, Toronto.
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 AM