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Capsized Canadian flagship.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUforUnloved
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A dismembered unclothed mannequin lies alone in an empty suburban retail space of the former Hudsons Bay Company. On the faux brick wall is stencilled, “Stop saying I WISH. Start saying I WILL.” The photo is in full colour but the predominant tone is sepia.
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Flowers are for Lovers
Churton St., London
💐 #FlowersOnFriday 💐
Daytime exterior of a floral shop with an array of plants and flowers (hydrangeas, sunflowers, lilies, ivy, eucalyptus) spilling on to the walk. The neon sign against the golden glowing window says ‘Dovers’ but camera POV shows ‘Lovers’
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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#ColorADay #PinkMon
East Village evening
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Foreground: a dead tall pine stands in its pink glory in the evening light. The library glows in lemon yellow at right. Four white rays of a street light streak against a close skyline of lit windows in Calgary’s East Village. The sky is a uniform deep grey.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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#Evening sets on Gabriel’s Wharf
#BlueSkyArtShow
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Shot from within an empty outdoor market at gloaming time. The sky’s a mottled grey/blue. The brick buildings are made golden by strings of light laced across them. On the right, windows glow yellow from the interior.
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Caninosaurus Rex
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadow
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Shadow of a yawning dog moving in on a task light in a purple-tinted darkened room.
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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#ColorADay #GreenSat
Limehouse Basin takes on a matcha hue (duckweed?)
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A late afternoon shot of a variety of canal boats moored in London’s Limehouse Basin with multi-storey taupe-coloured apartments in the background. The sky is clear blue with a single strip of faint cloud. The surface of the water looks like a low pile carpet in 1970s pea green
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Bedtime on the marsh
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQforQuiet
A westward view on the Wascana Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Regina, Saskatchewan. The sun gives its last glow, reflected on the water. Lush tall grasses fill the foreground. The birds have found their refuge for the night.
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekPforPink
🪸🌑🪸🌑🪸
GRADIENT SKY
Silhouettes of pine and elm trees frame a dusk prairie sky glowing purple, pink, and coral.
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Reality check
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
A deep black late evening sky is framed on the left and right by the canopy of early autumn Canadian prairie trees illuminated by streetlights.
September 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline
#Millwall #London
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A view toward the light blue Thames in early evening with silhouettes of unique Millwall apartment blocks in foreground, squares of apartment lights glowing yellow against the dark asymmetrical structures.
August 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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🐦 Windows can be a bird’s worst enemy.
Migration time is especially tough. Tips on bird proofing: www.canada.ca/en/environme... In a pinch, artful embellishments with a bar of soft soap can break up those deadly illusions. Important: example is a work in progress
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGforGlass
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Superimposed over a backyard scene is a white line drawing of a person bending over to water a pot. The figure is surrounded by line-drawn butterflies and flora.
August 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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🎶🌲 Driving home for Christmas 🎶🌲 Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekDforDrivetime
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A driver’s view of a bending road at twilight. An overhead pole light casts a golden glow onto an otherwise blue scene with ocean beyond. A small accumulation of snow gathers roadside.
July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Isle of Dogs glows across the water from Greenwich Peninsula.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekBforBars
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A locked gate off of Thames Path on a winter evening in Greenwich Peninsula. In the foreground - the bars of a gate protecting some sort of dock or slip. In the background - the sparkling lights of Isle of Dogs pumping station and surrounds.
July 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The watched pot flips the script
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekAforAlliteration (assonance, actually)
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Cheeky CCTV camera (depicted as the centre of an illustrated potted flower) on the side of a building in London’s South Bank. (BFI?)
June 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Survivor in a neon desert
Kensington Village, Calgary ☕️
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekYforYellow
Sign outside coffee shop depicts a mint green coffee cup against a butter yellow background outlined in neon tubing. Daytime image.
June 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The resilient sunflower 🌻 takes centre stage
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekYforYellow
#Resilience #Sunflower
A high saturation image of a floral arrangement with the sunflower in dominant position against a blue background
June 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Greenwich, the Golden Hour
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTime
Sunset view from Cutty Sark to shops on the high street. The sky, a mottle of deep grey, baby blue and bright yellow. August 2023.
May 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMforMulticoloured
Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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#BlueskyArtShow
#Windows
#Hoxton
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Photographer takes selfie from reflective window in the gardens of the Museum of the Home, Hoxton
March 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow
#Windows
#TrinityBuoyWharf
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Porthole windows on a building configured from 3 stacked bright blue shipping containers at Trinity Buoy Wharf
March 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Some rest at Somerset
Inside the court of Somerset House Feb 2024
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforInside
Figures in silhouette wandering the courtyard of Somerset House at dusk. Bursts of blue pink and gold light shimmer against the building’s grey facade.
February 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Pewter sky, golden ground along the Elbow River. Calgary. Autumn 2024.
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGforGold
An empty bike path winds through golden trees and grasses under a metal grey late afternoon sky.
February 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Bits of artificial light punctuate the scene below dark skies over Burrard Inlet. Vancouver.
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Light
A city street scene at dusk with a pedestrian crosswalk in the foreground. The sky is filled with dark, stormy clouds looming over a commercial district. Buildings with modern glass and concrete facades line both sides of the street. A streetlamp on the right emits an orange glow, contrasting with the cool tones of the evening. In the middle ground, a fountain with water features and surrounding flower arrangements sits in a public plaza. A sign reading ‘FOOD COURT’ is visible in the background, suspended above the walkway leading toward distant mountains, partially obscured by low-hanging clouds. A few pedestrians are seen walking, some carrying bags, while others linger near the fountain.
February 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Pattern
Stripey curtains partly obscure a violet and fuschia prairie sky at twilight.
January 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The Wandsworth Gas Company collier 'Chessington' moving upstream on the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament, c. 1948 by Charles Pears. Photo of painting at Royal Maritime Museum.
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#RunningWater
Image of an industry ship on a choppy River Thames. Sky canary yellow and clouds deep blue-grey.
January 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM