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Antique Glass Eye Display Case
Panopoly - Toronto, Ontario

#UrbanGaze #UrbanExploration #Weird #Toronto #Antiques #Vintage #Creepy #Eyes #Eyeball #MedicalHistory #Panopoly #EastCoastKin

November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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@courtneyohearn.bsky.social

Creepy Antique Doll Face
Panopoly - Toronto, Ontario

#curio shop and museum of #oddities near Bathurst and Dupont.

#UrbanGaze #UrbanExploration #Weird #Toronto #Antiques #Vintage #Creepy #Dolls #Cracked #Textures #EastCoastKin

November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM

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Panopoly - Store Interior
Toronto, Ontario

#curio shop and museum of #oddities near Bathurst and Dupont.

#UrbanGaze #UrbanExploration #Weird #Toronto #Antiques #Vintage #Creepy #Dolls #Skulls #Taxidermy #EastCoastKin

November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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@courtneyohearn.bsky.social

Panopoly
489 Dupont St.
Toronto, Ontario

Incredible little #curio shop I found last weekend, replete with many weird and wonderful finds! The owner is a wealth of knowledge and very kind.

#UrbanGaze #UrbanExploration #Weird #Toronto #Antiques #Creepy #Dolls #Butterflies #Taxidermy #EastCoastKin

November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Space Witch
2019

One of my first every studio photoshoots with a model (the incredibly talented Fawna!)

#EastCoastKin #Spooktober #Halloween #Space #Witch #Dark #Fashion #Editorial #Photography #Spooky #Creepy #WitchyVibes

October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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Still Life with Creepy Dolls
Mountain View, New York
October 2024

#EastCoastKin #Creepy #Scary #Dolls #Halloween #StillLife #Pumpkin #Spider #Dark #Photography #HappyHalloween

October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Still Life with Gourds
Mountain View, New York
October 2024

#EastCoastKin #Pumpkin #Gourd #GourdSeason #Autumn #StillLife #Creepy #Halloween #Photography #Textures #Creepy #CottageLife #DarkNature

October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Blue Pumpkin Still Life
Mountain View, New York
October 2024

#EastCoastKin #Halloween #Blue #Pumpkin #Autumn #StillLife #GourdSeason #HappyHalloween #NaturalLight #Photography

October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Pinecone Textures
Mountain View, New York
October 2025

#MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #Nature #Photography #Texture #Autumn #Fall #Pinecone #Pattern #Adirondaks #Macro #DarkNature

October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Black-Eyed Susan in October
Mountain View, New York
October 2025

petals long gone and seeds dispensed of, she still has such marvelous textures and form.

#MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #Dried #Flower #Decay #Spooktober #Deadflower #Texture #SacredGeometry #Pattern #Nature #Photography

October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Dark Fishing Spiders Shed Their Skin
Mountain View
October 2025

See Alt Text for the full story!

#MacroMonday #Spooktober #EastCoastKin #Spider #Exeoskeleton #Creepy #Nature #Macro #Photography #Spiderweb #Insects #CreepyNature #WeirdNatrue #DarkNature

Close up Macro Photo of a burst egg sack of a Dark Fishing Spider aka Wharf Spider. There are dozens of tiny spider exoskeletons hanging in the remnants of a web.

The Story: I have been keeping tabs on a large Wharf Spider all summer after I found her guarding her egg sac on the ladder of our dock. After staying put for months, guarding her offspring, she finally was gone we visited in the late fall. The sac had now burst and I initially thought these tiny spider shapes left in the web were hatchlings that had died. After looking closer at the photo you can see the spider bodies look empty, as if completely drained. I thought maybe some of the spider babies eat some the others, and these were the unlucky first food of their own siblings. After doing some further research on the species, I learned that the babies will shed their skin 2-3 times before they are big enough to leave the safety of the nursery web. So these are just the leftover exoskeletons of spiders who grew even bigger! After a few moltings, shedding their skin as they grow, the babies will be large enough to safely leave the nursery web. They will climb aboard the mother's back, who will lead them to the closest forest area, to hibernate for winter. When they emerge in the Spring they will be fully grown young adults!

October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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@courtneyohearn.bsky.social

Still Life with Fig
October 2024

A fig is not a fruit, it's actually an inverted flower. It is pollenated when a wasp crawls #inside and dies. The wasp is then broken down and absorbed by the fig.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Fig #StillLife #Creepy #Spooktober #Insect #Wasp #Photography #EastCoastKin

October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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Still Life with Gourds and Wasp
Oct 2022

The smell of the squash attracted a wasp onto my still life. The image is made from multiple shots of the wasp in different positions.

#Spooktober #Autumn #Gourds #StillLife #Wasp #Insect #Photography #Fall #Pumpkins #EastCoastKin #FineArt #Photography