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Tina Loo
@lootina.bsky.social
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Mountain itinerant and photog who teaches and writes Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. [I chose the photo of Sycamore Gap not knowing what would soon happen...]
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Fun in he dark #photography #filmphotography #analog #oldskool
Photo of the darkroom. Processing underway with the red lights on. (photos were already in the fixer so no problem with pulling out the phone to take this shot). Two test strips in the tray; slightly different exposure times. Final print of the night. Haven’t quite got the sky right. Needs to be burned in more. Ran out of time.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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One last one of the DJ spinning tunes at the Robson Square ice rink #LumiereFestival #yvr
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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From the other side of the Art Gallery. A laser light show inside the columns. #LumiereFestival #yvr
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#LumiereFestival #yvr
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Spectacular night at the #Lumière Festival. November days are shorter, but that just meant more time to take in the light… #photography
Night shot of brightly coloured large spherical lanterns with people gathered around them. Intentional camera movement used. Night time shot of a moving light display (mainly pink and blue) on the front plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery, looking north towards the Hotel Georgia. Blue laser light show inside the pillars of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Black and white shot from the Robson Square Court House looking north at the skating rink and the lights of Robson Square. The buildings are lit up behind.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Pigeons parked… #photography
Pigeons flocked around a man seated in a wheelchair feeding them.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Whoa! Dizzying installation in the atrium of the @vanartgallery.bsky.social #photography
Aerial shot of the very colourful floor of the atrium of the art gallery. It’s multicoloured stripes arranged in a pattern which extends up the staircase.
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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It’s good to be in the dark[room] again. #filmphotography #analog #oldschool
Black and white contact sheet Test strips hanging to dry in the darkroom
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Scenes from #Centretown #Ottawa #photography
Graffitied wall with someone walking by; sun has lit up the wall. There are clouds overhead and power wires held up by wooden poles. Wall of a building with the metal fire escape folded up. Bottom part of the building is brick painted black; it sets off the yellow bollards and white pipes. Black and white photo of a graffitied wall in an alley
October 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Glory days. #canadapost #ottawa #photography
Wide angle shot of the Canada Post post office at Sparks and Elgin Streets in Ottawa. Imposing stone building with its blank wooden doors flanked by a pair of carved stone lions.
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Maman in monochrome #photography
Black and white photo of the large metal spider sculpture called “Maman” outside the National Gallery of Canada. Maman is in the foreground, with a small child running at her feet, and the National Gallery’s glass rotunda is visible through her legs. The clouded sky at dusk is above.
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Lunchtime #barbecue #chinatownyvr
Chinese barbecued meats shop in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Roast duck and pork hanging on metal hooks in the store window. The barbecue master is reaching in to grab a duck for an order.
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Rumours of glory….
Going #analog #film #TriX400
Black and white photo of the Vogue Theatre on Granville Street in Vancouver, once grand, now pretty dog-eared.
October 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Reflective #photography #streetphotography #caffeinecontemplation
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Night lights #multipleexposure #photography
Black and white multiple exposure shot of Water Street in Vancouver’s Gastown. Numerous light standards and a moving car on the wet street are visible.
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Simply red #streetphotography
Woman sitting at a bus stop with red pumps, red top, floral red and white skirt, white Santa hat, and red trolley
October 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Spanish Banks #fogtography
Barren tree in the foreground with container ships in the background, barely visible in the fog.
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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And finally, looking north from the church to the foothills.
Looking north to the treed foothills against a spectacular sky.
July 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Looking directly west into a fenced field - swallows were thick in the air but I only managed to get a photo of one flying….
Fenced field with gate, looking west from the McDougall Memorial United Church. Swallow against a clouded sky.
July 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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As I said, a spectacular site. This is looking south and west from the church.
Fenced field adjacent to the McDougall Memorial United Church. Mountains in the distance, clouded skies.
July 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A few shots from a brief roadside stop at the McDougall Memorial United Church in Mînî Thnî (formerly Morley on the Stoney Reserve). It burned down in 2017 and was rebuilt - against the wishes of many Stoney Nakoda. It’s a spectacular place of big skies….
McDougall Memorial United Church. The first church was built in 1875 - a missionary enterprise to convert the Stoney Nakoda. This photo is of the recently rebuilt church.
July 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The place has changed, even in the time I’ve been coming here. There’s a mosque being built…
Black and white photo of the Islamic Centre that’s under construction in Yellowknife. One of the towers and dome of the new Islamic Centre in Yellowknife.
July 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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That said, there are still remnants of the gold mining past and future downtown….
Black and white photo of the legendary Gold Range Hotel in downtown Yellowknife. Black and white photo of the Giant Mine Oversight Board in downtown Yellowknife, set up to oversee the remediation of the mess (arsenic!) the gold mine left behind, something that will require “perpetual care” - specifically ensuring the lethal arsenic trioxide underground (a product of gold mining) stays frozen.
July 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Old Town and downtown Yellowknife #contrasts
Slightly leaning Pink-red two storey wooden house with a yellow door, green sills, and outside stairs running up to the second story in Old Town, Yellowknife. The rust red multi-story very square YK Centre in the background, and the silver corrugated Elks Lodge in the foreground. All straight lines and squares here.
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Life in a northern town … in the 1970s. #archiving #cdnhist
Government advertisement in a NWT newspaper in the mid-1970s saying “Don’t shoot at our highway signs. Use this free professional target instead.” The image is a shooting range target. The text says shooting highway signs is illegal and dangerous - “That’s why we’re giving you this free official target…test your skill the way the professionals do.”
July 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM