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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer

@dkmackinnon.bsky.social

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Fine-art #photographer in #ottawa who occasionally does #costuming (mostly #leather or #chainmaille) and body art (mostly acrylic and metallic #tape). Website: www.dkmackinnon.ca Instagram/Facebook: @d.k.mackinnon Mastodon/Cara: @dkmackinnon

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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · Nov 28

I created a fine-art nude and travelling model starter pack. Feel free to suggest people to add to it.

#starterpack #photography #modelphotography #fineartphotography

go.bsky.app/Ln8q8Qe

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

The molecular basis for signalling between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer has now been revealed

go.nature.com/3Jlu490

Pancreatic cancer relies on opposing signalling pathways to drive its cellular diversity

Communication between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer leads to a poor prognosis. The molecular basis for this signalling has now been revealed.

go.nature.com

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 3d

We can't wait to read your work!

variantlit.com/submit/

Text on blue background: "we're open for submissions" and "submit your poetry, flash prose, and fiction to Variant Literature between October 21 and December 4"

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 7d

How the fuck is this done in watercolor painting?? Close-up of watercolor painting of pussywillows by Rosalind Allchin. Botanical artists are badass. #botanicalart

Close-up of pussy willows catkins done in watercolor which look like real living plants even when I get really close.

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Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 7d

New ebook editions of SUMMON THE KEEPER and THE SECOND SUMMONING with new ebook edition covers are now available. 1/3

New digital cover for SUMMON THE KEEPER -- it was a dark and stormy night, a black and white cat peers over the roof of a victorian (slightly Queen Anne but let's not be architecturally pedantic) house. There's caution tape over the door and silhouettes of a bat, a werewolf, and tentacles in the windows. The cat's expression says he's had enough of this shit.

New digital cover for THE SECOND SUMMONING: in the background, a human torso wearing a beige sweater. The person is holding a very large tea cup that holds in turn an orange almost kitten and some tentacles. There's a line drawing of the Toronto skyline on the tea cup. The cat's expression suggests he hasn't noticed the tentacles not that it would matter because he's just too sweet for this world. He's not actually wrong...

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 9d

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

www.science.org

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 11d

Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms

Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.

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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · 11d

I've been spending so much time decommissioning the old website and figuring out the new one that I've done almost no photo processing since August. Good thing I no longer do trade-for-print or I'd have some unhappy models waiting on stuff.

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 11d

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16d

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · 17d

My spouse puts them in a roasting pan with veggies. The result has a very pork-like texture and is very tasty.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21d

If you want to volunteer to help?

More volunteers needed to help find 'cold-stunned' sea turtles #NovaScotia #NewBrunswick #Turtles

'If we can get them soon enough, we can rehabilitate them,' says executive director of Halifax-based network

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More volunteers needed to help find 'cold-stunned' sea turtles | CBC News

Beach patrols will begin this month across Atlantic Canada in an effort to find and rescue endangered sea turtles that may become stranded in the fall due to exposure to cold waters.

www.cbc.ca

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 21d

In #Canada, if you go to a #library and even without a permanent address, the library will help you borrow and read books.

If you don’t have the preferred type of ID, they’ll accept alternates, including proof of like a shelter card, or social services letter or showing up in person.

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 23d

The smaller oil paintings that will be on display (and for sale) in my studio at the Studio Space Ottawa open house this weekend.

#oilpainting #stilllife #painting #art #ottawa #portrait

A white wall framed by black curtains and a gold striped navy blue table. Arranged on the wall for display are a variety of small oil paintings of still life, plants, bones, and people. Two small egg paintings sit flat on the table.

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 24d

Disabled friends! I am thrilled to be overseeing @fiddlehd.bsky.social's Summer 2026 issue--DISABILITY: THE REVOLUTION.

Our theme is REVOLUTION and you can interpret that as widely as you like. If you identify as disabled and want to answer this call, please submit!

thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

[Image description: White text against a purple background: The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's Literary Journal. Disability: The Revolution. The Fiddlehead's Summer 2026 Special Issue. Call for Submissions from Disabled Writers: Deadline November 30, 2025.]

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24d

Truth and Reconciliation in action: Absolutely Canadian docs highlight experiences of Indigenous People #Canada

Watch free on #CBCGem

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Truth and reconciliation in action: Absolutely Canadian docs highlight experiences of Indigenous People | CBC News

Absolutely Canadian documentaries reflect upon lived experiences of the Indigenous People in Canada, as we mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.

www.cbc.ca

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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · 25d

Yesterday was Ira Balan's @irapassion.bsky.social ssion.bsky.social birthday so here is an image from one of our past photoshoots.

#photography #modelphotography #modelphotoshoot #studiophotoshoot #studiophotographer #studiolighting #glamour #glamourphotography #glamourshots

A dark-haired woman in a grey top and blue jean-shorts against a bamboo backdrop, arms up as she holds her hair back.

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 25d

Redid this design. I like this version better.

#botanicalart #orchids #bloomsky #painting #watersolubleencaustic

A painting of a stem of magenta orchids on a stem with buds at the end.

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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · 27d

Bee and Ghost Pipes from a walk a few months ago in the Purdon Conservation Area.

#Bee #Nature #NaturePhotography #GhostPipes

A bumblebee in flight over ghost pipes surrounded by blades of grass.

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · Sep 21

#PEI village #Victoria-by-the-Sea is named by #Forbes as one of 50 most beautiful villages in the world.
With a population of 200, this seaside village known for its pastel buildings, live seafood catches from local fishers, and direct ocean views, has won its place as #23 of 50. #peipoli #canada

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Sep 20

Prince Edward Island village named one of the worlds most beautiful #PEI

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

#TheMoment a P.E.I. village was named one of the world's most beautiful

Mayor Martin Ruben recounts the moment villagers learned Victoria by the Sea, P.E.I., was named one of the top 25 most beautiful spots in the world by Forbes.

www.cbc.ca

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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · Sep 21

Model is @minhly-model.bsky.social. The link didn't work because of an editing error in the original post.

David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · Sep 19

The mirror dress is one of my most popular creations, and Minh Ly ([email protected]) was in the studio recently to model it as part of a series I am working featuring this outfit.

#photography #modelphotography #studiophotographer #studiolighting #chainmaille #artfashion #fashionart

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Kaylynx @kaylynx.bsky.social · Sep 16

Submit your book here!
forms.gle/Bg8RPr86Fny4...

*This will likely officially begin within the next month as I work on revamping some things! Stay tuned!*

#writingcommunity #writesky #booksky

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · Sep 16

And that's it! The Toby award is open for submissions! This unique award is for Canadian self-published mystery authors who published a new book in 2024! Check out the criteria on tobyaward.wordpress.com!

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · Sep 10

I got some good news today. The series that includes this mushroom painting will be in a show and sale at Cline House gallery (Cornwall, Ontario) this December. There will be five fungi and plant portraits in the series.

#watersolubleencaustic #art #painting #ottawaartist

Painting of a cluster of orange jack o'lantern mushrooms on a black background.

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