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Calvin Binnema
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YEG; cycling; grandpa; abstract/minimal photography (sometimes birds & landscapes too); gardening; travel; retired
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#ArtAdventCalendar #24

A shot taken in my backyard just 2 days ago. Posting both the colour and B&W version for comparison. Please have a close look.
Merry Christmas!

#ArtistsofBluesky #photography #blackandwhite
A close-up photograph of fresh snow taken while the sun is near the horizon. There is a pattern of lines and curves caused by ridges of drifted snow and shadows cast by nearby objects outside the frame of the image. The shadowed parts have a bluish tinge. There is a kite shaped area near the middle that is pinkish orange due to it receiving more direct sunlight than the rest A black and white version of the first image in this post. It is more contrasty than the colour version.
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Oct 20
IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 23

Found this cormorant while taking a walk along the shore at Sidney BC
#birds #birdphotography #ArtistsofBluesky #SidneyBC #Victoria
A cormorant with its beak open is sitting on a wooden post in the water. The background is entirely water in gentle waves giving it subtle colour changes.
December 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 22

I received this view on a visit to #Montreal in 2018. I like how the 3 elements are so different yet seem to work together.
#ArtistsofBluesky #photography #abstractphotography #minimalistphotography #beach
A somewhat abstract photograph with 3 basic elements. A dark brown boardwalk running diagonally occupies the bottom left corner. Above that is patch of tan-golden coloured beach sand. A metal pole near the right edge holds up a light blue beach umbrella of which about a quarter is actually in the frame of the image.
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#Zentangle has always fascinated me and I wanted to test if I can play with the 3D effect. The four patterns together look cool, and I learned that I prefer regular 2D patterns...
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
A page with four different 3D like zentangles patterns: a purple checkerboard pattern with a warped like sphere shape; a blue and white Celtic knot like pattern with shadow; a green and white interwoven square with one side raising as a tower; a black and white square grids with some of the square raised as different height towers.
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 21

A minimalist photograph taken on a cloudy day in Paris.

#ArtistsofBluesky #minimalistphotography #Paris #photography #minimalism #street
A photograph of 4 decorative street lights at different distances away. The tops of three of them form an implied diagonal while the 4th, between the first and second, appears much closer. There is no foreground, just a white sky from an overcast day in the background.
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 20

I enjoy making optical illusions in my photography.
#ArtistsofBluesky #opticalillusion #photography #blackandwhitephotography
An abstract photograph of 2 sets of bicycle lock up racks that are casting sharp shadows across the concrete foreground. The tops of the racks are outside the frame of the image. The shadows from the farther set of racks look like they could be a set of stairs.
December 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 19

Captured in Victoria BC in 2024.

#birdphotography #blackandwhitephotography #ArtistsofBluesky
A black and white photograph showing a crow on rocky terrain. The crow's head stands out against a background of a body of water. It holds a small tidbit in its beak. A small pool of water below the crow reflects sky and rock. The part reflecting the sky roughly echoes the shape and size of the crow.
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 18
Breaking the pattern. #ArtistsOfBluesky #photography
A pattern of square glass blocks cemented together is photographed at an oblique angle. one of the blocks is cracked in several places
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
Lines

#photography #streetphotography #gallery #사진놀이
On a nighttime mountain road, there are two light lines caused by the car driving by during the long shutter speed shot - with a street lamppost's light on the black 'sky' with a sunstar effect. 심야의 산길에서 장노출 중 지나간 자동차의 전조등으로 인해 두 개의 빛나는 선이 도로 위에 남아 있습니다. 가로등의 불빛이 마치 하늘에 있는 것처럼 높은 위치에서 빛갈라짐 효과로 표현되고 있습니다.
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 17
An experimental image - I have my reasons for liking it, but it might not grab you. That's OK.
#artistsofbluesky #photography #urbanphotography
A black and white photograph taken from underneath an awning which takes up the top half of the image. On the right is the edge of a skyscraper. In the middle distance seen below the awning is a light standard with its top obscured by the awning. Between the awning and the building there are the bare branches of a tree. A few birds in the tree can be seen, but barely at this distance.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The moon and Venus. A favorite shot from February 2025. As much as I love a dramatic, cloud filled sunset, this kind of night sky is my favorite. So peaceful 🌙✨️
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYearPast
#ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin
Photo taken just after sunset. The deep blue sky fades to orange near the horizon. Bare branches of trees are silhouetted against the sky. There is a single light on the shore across the frozen lake. High in the sky are a crescent moon and the bright light of Venus.
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 16

In May I was fortunate to witness this exchange between an adult American Coot and its young.

#birdphotography #birds #waterfowl
An adult American Coot on the left is feeding its young to the right of it in shallow murky water. The image shows the moment the tidbit of food is being transferred from the parent's bill to the young. The vantage point is from above on an angle.
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 15
Taken in a downtown alley in Edmonton. The building on the left is about a block farther away than the one on the right.

#photography #BlueskyArtists #abstractphotography
A somewhat abstract photograph. On the left about one third of the image is of a red skyscraper with rows of adjacent square windows. On the right is a building much closer by with a tall rectangular window reflecting a blue sky with clouds. The window has whitish stone slabs on either side of it and a strip of green ones at the bottom. The camera angle selected is such that the 2 buildings appear to have no gap between them.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#artadventcalendar Day 14 - night passes by at the old Wonderland ranch in Joshua Tree NP. This is a composite photo of over 170 exposures of the stars plus the foreground which I lit.
A star trail image with the stars rotating around Polaris above a an old broken down stone ranch home which was lit with some warm light.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 14
A somewhat spooky image of pumpkins reflected in a dirty glass tabletop on my deck. I added my hand print before taking the picture. I softened the image thus giving it a more painterly look.
A photograph of a tabletop made of smoked glass which in the sunlight has a bluish hue. It is covered by rings of a whitish residue created after a rainfall was left to dry over a few days. In the top left third of the photograph the tabletop is reflecting 2 orange pumpkins on a deck railing. A hand print of a man's right hand fills the bottom right third of the image. The image appears to be softened to make it look painterly.
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 13
In July I witnessed my first ever circumzenithal arc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumz...
#weatherphenomena #rainbow #camping #BlueskyArtists
A view of the sky looking almost straight up. There are a few wispy clouds and a rainbow coloured arc with its ends turned up. This is called a circumzenithal arc. Tops of different trees are in each of the 4 corners.
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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December 12: "Rip Off" (2013) mixed media on canvas, 8 in. x 8 in. #ArtAdventCalendar
A triangular piece of paper ripped from a spiral notebook covers the bottom left-hand corner of the canvas. It is mottled blue while the rest of the canvas is mottled grey and blue.
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Day 12 if #ArtAdventCalendar
"Corvid 19 - Bird Brain"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#PortraitArt #embroidery
A cream background with a hair silhouette cut out of black fabric coming down the right hand side and has a hand embroidered black feather on it in the lower half. The silhouette is framing a hand embroidered black line drawing of a female face looking down and across to the right. To the left of the face is parts of the same face but in different poses overlapped with six hand embroidered black feathers floating down between them.
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12: a sultry portrait.
Digital portrait of Judit Guerra
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 12. A shot taken from Rice Howard Way in Edmonton, Alberta.
#architecture #photography #yegdt #colours
Three different skyscrapers fill the frame so that they appear to be touching. All 3 are glass each with a different pattern of panes and each a different colour: blue, teal, and pale yellow
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I had a fun time working on this wood duck drake's head. There are so many different colours blended into the feathers and I wasn't sure they were all going to work together for a while there, but I'm happy with the final result. #Art #Birds #ArtAdventCalendar
A digital painting of a wood duck male's head looking to the right. It's green feathers are interspersed with different blues and purples contrasting against the white forehead and chin stripes. The orange bill and eye stand out sharply.
December 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Day 11 of #ArtAdventCalendar. A rainbow created in the mist of Niagara Falls while gulls fly across it.
#birds #rainbow #NiagaraFalls
Part of an the arc of a rainbow cuts through the middle of this picture while gulls seem to be flying through it. The entire background is a bluish river with some white foam nearest to the viewer. Mist slightly obscures the view and is also the prism through which the sun created the rainbow.
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.
A picture of a common grackle sitting on a reed. It is shown from the back with its head turned so that its right eye appears to be looking directly at the camera. The iridescent plumage on the back is reflecting the sunlight.
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM