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James Rowan (aka Jimmy Knuckles)
@james-rowan-photo.bsky.social
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Photographer, Archive Technician, Musician & Creative Consultant from Cornwall & Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ✊🏻 🇨🇦 📷

IG: @jamesrowanphotography
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James Rowan (aka Jimmy Knuckles) @james-rowan-photo.bsky.social · Nov 14
My 1st post on Bluesky. Hoping to find some of my original Twitter peeps here as well as some new ones too... 😎

🎙🎶 It's just like starting over...... ✌🏼📸 #JohnLennon

#photography #art #music #film #movies #creativity #artists #streetphotography #monochrome #colour #color #blackandwhite
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I made this digital #collage using #Photoshop back in 2017 for the film "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)...

Also... here is a couple of #paparazzi #photos of Jack Nicholson's "softer side" in St. Tropez shortly after his Oscar win for "Best Actor" for the same film.

Oh, "Smilin' Jack". 😆🎬
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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THE BEATLES - "Piggies" (1968)

* social commentary at its most musically poetic... not much has changed either.

#music #MusicSky #protest #classism #EatTheRich #ClassInequality

youtu.be/t0nzZ8-kIf0?...
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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"DISCARDED SOLES" (near Queen & Spadina), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ca.2002

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #streetphotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #Kodak #Portra #film #grain #gate #caged #bricks #shoes #posters #dance #flamenco #TimHortons #Subway #discarded #downtown #Toronto
November 28, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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"WINTER WALK", Lancaster, Ontario, Canada. 02-20-21

📷: J.R. Rowan

😯❄ I've never seen anything like it. Every #building along this stretch of town had a mass of icicles several feet long hanging from their roofs!

#photography #streetphotography #winter #snow #icicle #cocacola #architecture #people
December 7, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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"ONGOING HOSPITAL EXPANSION CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS", Toronto Western Hospital, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 10-24-25

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #ClassicMono #architecture #healthcare #hospital #building #construction #cars #streetphotography @uhn.ca @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social @kbi-uhn.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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"POLICE FORENSICS UNIT ARRIVE TO SURVEY & PHOTOGRAPH A CRIME SCENE" (1+2), Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 02-09-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #grainy #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDanger #streetphotography #people #police #forensics #evidence #crime #crimescene #investigation #camera
January 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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"MARKS OF VIOLENCE", Apartment Building Stairwell, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 02-09-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #photo #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDanger #wall #abstract #blood #red #stain #smear #texture #damage #forensics #evidence #violence
January 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"KEEP CLEAR OF THE STREET!" (Evacuation to a nearby church parking lot), Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 02-08-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDanger #streetphotography #city #street #people #police #paramedics #gun #fire #lockdown #violence #evacuation #church
January 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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"BEDROOM WINDOW SILL", Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Spring, 2018.

📷: J.R. Rowan

One of the 1st photos I made w/ #MyFujifilm #camera.

#Fujifilm #XE3 #photo #photography #XF23mmF2 #monochrome #blackandwhite #window #architecture #abstract #shapes #chiaroscuro #art #fineart #distortion #shadow
November 26, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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"WINDOW SILL SHADOW PROJECTED ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR", Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 09-27-20

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #EastCoastKin #BlueskyArtShow #LIGHT #architecture #wood #flooring #grain #silhouette #shadow #sunlight #pattern #texture
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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"A MAN IN HIS ENVIRONMENT", A Neighbourhood View From The Toronto Western Hospital, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 10-24-25

🔍👀📷: J.R. Rowan

* Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954)

#photography #skyline #architecture #streetphotography #roof #city #EastCoastKin @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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"CITY SHADES", Bathurst Street & Nassau Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 10-24-25

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #ClassicMono #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #architecture #Bathurst #street #busy #traffic #people #walking #motion #blur #graffiti #face #monochrome #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBluesky
November 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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"SUBWAY TRAIN ENTERING UNION STATION" [1+2], Northbound Subway Platform, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 09-08-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #photo #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #people #Toronto #TTC #subway #train #blur #transit #UnionStation #city #urban #travel
January 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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"SNOW FORM No.1", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 02-17-25

❄ 🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #EastCoastKin #ShareYourWeather #snow #texture #shape #storm #winter #weather #Ontario #landscape #abstract #pastel #color #colour #blue #magenta #pink
February 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"A VIEW OF THE STREET AFTER BACK-TO-BACK SNOWSTORMS", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 02-18-25

❄ 🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #EastCoastKin #ShareYourWeather #snow #texture #shape #storm #winter #weather #Ontario #landscape #abstract #pastel #color #colour #blue #magenta #pink #streetphotography
February 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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"S T U D I O", Yonge Street & St. Clair Avenue, Toronto, ON., Canada. (mid) December, 2004

📷: J.R. Rowan

Cross-processed E-6 35mm slide film developed in C-41 #color negative chemistry.

#photography #Toronto #architecture #filmphotography #believeinfilm #building #gritty #grain #studio #window
December 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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"FLY, SHADOW & FRESHLY CUT TREE STUMP", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 04-05-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

🎙🎶 Me.... and my.... shadow.... 😎 🪰

#photography #closeup #tree #stump #bark #wood #fly #shadow #insects #bugs #animals #nature #texture #pattern #naturephotography #life
November 26, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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"K.F.C. BUILDING & CLOUD", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 05-07-24

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Digital #photo that has a similar look to overexposed Kodak Portra film. The flat perspective is a nod to #WesAnderson

#photography #streetphotography #architecture #KFC #fastfood #shapes #parkinglot #building #cloud
November 30, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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💠 #PanoPhotos Best of the Week 💠

Week 4️⃣6️⃣: Nov. 10-16, 2025
Winner: @james-rowan-photo.bsky.social

Winter is coming and if it is this beautiful, bring it on! Thanks for sharing, James. 😊

Note: To be eligible for "Best of the Week", tag us » #PanoPhotos
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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When growing up in a Catholic family, attending Catholic schools that were right next door to Catholic churches filled w/ art, & having a Mom who was a painter when I was young...

... spotting "crosses" & a spirituality in everyday things becomes a bit of a reflex. 😉

Ex. #photography #symbolism
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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"HE XIANGU", One of the Eight Immortals in Chinese Mythology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 12-30-20

📷: J.R. Rowan

* I found this piece at a Value Village & was later identified by Jack Howard of @romtoronto.bsky.social

#photography #wood #sculpture #Chinese #art #artifact @kaysunahara.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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"HOSPITAL CLINIC, SIDE EXTERIOR WALL", Cornwall Community Hospital, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 08-06-25

📷: J.R. Rowan

Same #photo but 2nd edit has extensive #perspective corrections made

#photography #angle #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #hospital #architecture #shape #pattern #shadow #sunlight
August 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"CORNWALL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL - MAINTENANCE AREA", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 06-09-23

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #architecture #building #healthcare #industrial #Ontario #hospital #monochrome #blackandwhite #geometry #shape #lamp #pathway #leadinglines #EastCoastKin
January 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"FENCE & GARDEN LIGHT CAPPED IN FRESH SNOW", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 01-26-21

📷: J.R. Rowan

* The shape of the #snow along the top of the #fence looked like a gentle hand covering the garden #lamp.

#photography #wood #texture #grain #sunlight #landscape #nature #winter #EastCoastKin #Stunday
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Ohhhh Canada!

#Christmas #decorating

😳🎄🇨🇦🦫😆
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM