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J. Ashley Nixon

@jashleynixon.bsky.social

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Exploring people & places with art, culture & natural heritage. University teacher, PhD ecology. Fellow RCGS 🇨🇦 www.jashleynixon.com

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 7h

Shadow room
Calgary, Alberta
Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 1d

Shadow people
Calgary, Alberta
Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn shadow. With stripes
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn
Kananaskis Country
Alberta, Canada

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 5d

Patti Smith’s mesmerizing new memoir looks back in wonder — and sorrow www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: Patti Smith’s mesmerizing new memoir looks back in wonder — and sorrow

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.'

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. Those return trips to find the ice retreating further and further, in biological time, give the strongest of signs of the impact of climate change.

J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

Austin, TX
Fall 2014

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

Austin, TX
Fall 2014

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

This is my first post on Substack. It’s about glaciers, climate change and the value of return visits to places to photograph. If you are on Substack or enjoy writing about photographs, please have a look!
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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

Rowan berries, leaves and pumpkins.

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

Good Rock of the Green Indie Kind.
Original colour. Honest.
Dickens Pub
Calgary, Alberta
Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

Rowan berries

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 4d

Good rock of the Indie kind.

Calgary, Alberta
Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 5d

The new workwear for Canadian workers.
Go Blue Jays Go!

J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 5d

Good rock of the metamorphic kind.

A polar bear, carved from steatite, a super-compressed form of magnesium silicate, aka talcum powder.
Sculpted by an Inuit artist.
Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 7d

Good rock of the igneous kind.
North Berwick Law, a volcanic plug of trachyte, a type of feldspar.
North Berwick, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 8d

Transitus
Mossleigh
Alberta, Canada
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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 8d

A good boat ride from North Berwick.

J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 8d

Speculum
Elbow River
Alberta, Canada
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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 8d

Good rock of the sedimentary kind.
Limestone pavement
Malham, Yorkshire

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 9d

Bass Rock.
Good rock of the gannet kind.
Scotland

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 9d

Steven Wilson.
Good rock of the progressive kind.

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 11d

Athabasca Glacier
Jasper National Park
Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 11d

Ice
Athabasca Glacier
Jasper National Park
Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦

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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 11d

A quiet place to study

Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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