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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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simplyedc.bsky.social
Covered Bridge #Photography
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #Nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers#Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Baneberry
Close-up photograph of a white-flowered baneberry plant with delicate, spiky blooms, set against a blurred green and brown forest backdrop.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #Nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers#Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Close-up shot of a single yellow flower in full bloom, with a vibrant, colourful, and blurred background of yellow, purple, and red hues.
December 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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bartgonnissen.bsky.social
The Voith-Schneider Propeller is a vertical-axis marine drive whose spinning blades change pitch continuously, letting a ship generate instant thrust in any direction, like a helicopter rotor underwater. Super-maneuverable, perfect for tugs and ferries.
December 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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What’s up blue
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 12 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #Nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Daffodils #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Close-up of three white and yellow double daffodils, with lush petals and bright yellow centers, set against a dark green leafy background.
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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Your day will be vastly improved by browsing the more than 4000 images of art & beauty posted by almost 600 real humans as part of #ArtAdventCalendar

Just click or long press on the hashtag and select See #ArtAdventCalendar Posts
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December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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e-nox.net
Day 11 of making proteins for #ArtAdventCalendar

This the Zika virus, which has an interesting repeating unit (five copies makes a starfish; and repeats twelve times).
More projects: e-nox.net/portfolio/

#SciArt
Visualisation of the structure of the Zika virus capsid, which is made up of 60 copies of a repeating unit (five copies makes a star shape, which repeats 12 times). Here it is shown with different coloured stars, and some translucency for effect
December 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🪲 Figeater beetle, Cotinis mutabilis, for #ArtAdventCalendar today. One of these chunky guys nearly took me out at the knees in San Diego! I love to see big insects like these.

#watercolor with iridescent highlights. #SciArt
Watercolor illustration of a Figeater beetle, a large green beetle, with its translucent wings spread
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 11 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #Nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Sunflower #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #MacroPhotography
Close-up view of the center of a sunflower, revealing a detailed pattern of yellow seed heads spiraling outwards from a bright green central disc with small water droplets.
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #Nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Wasp #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
A yellow and black wasp feeding from the red and pink flower of a wild strawberry plant, with green foliage in the background.
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Close-up photograph of a vibrant pink flower with delicate petals and a yellow center, set against a blurred background of green and dark colours, with bright green leaves along the stem.
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#artadventcalendar Day 8. I’ve nicknamed this one “All Barns go to Heaven”. An amazing night of aurora over a barn at the end of its days in Alberta.
Green and res aurora over a collapsed barn in Alberta.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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"The Road Not Taken"... a poplar grove (cultivated) near Andrew, AB. i captured this in the fall when most of the leaves had fallen but there were still leaves on the trees in the background and the soft late afternoon light was filtering through them

#ArtAdventCalendar www.stevericketts.ca
a poplar grove (cultivated, with rows of trees). most of the leaves have fallen but there are still leaves on the trees in the background and the soft late afternoon light is filtering through them, which i accentuated to draw the viewer's eye in
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #sunflower
Close-up of a vibrant yellow sunflower in full bloom, revealing a dark brown center with tiny, detailed structures, and a few small black insects on the petals.
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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New sculpture! (Actually a study for a bigger version)

Icosaskeliohedron, with embedded planar faces

Translucent green PLA

#mathart
#ArtAdventCalendar
View of a fluorescent green slightly translucent icosahedral sculpture, looking down a rotational 3-center Same sculpture centered on a 5-center poking out of the sculpture A third view of the sculpture, emphasizing its translucency
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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brownknowser.bsky.social
Say their names:

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
cultmtl.com Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 8d
“Nearly all of our modern gun control legislation came about as a consequence of the tragedy and subsequent lobbying by the gun control advocates born at Polytechnique that night.

“We must fight like hell to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

#December6
Never forget Polytechnique
The Polytechnique massacre on Dec. 6, 1989 was a mass femicide that left an indelible imprint on all Montrealers.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Ghost pipes. 12 x12 in, water soluble encaustic on black prepped wood board. #artadventcalendar I actually saw the bee pollinating the flowers. It's easy to forget they are flowers.

#bloomsky #botanicalart
Rising from the black background is a cluster of pale ghost pipe flowers. White with a blush of pink and blue shadows the flowers are merely stalks with their heads hung like bells. A bee hovers nearby.
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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A cute little alien Cladonias #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. Lichen is about 1.5cm high.
#fungi #fungifriends while #hiking
Photo of a Cladonia lichen with apothecia in the form of bright red rings.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Close-up of pear blossoms: three white flowers with delicate petals and reddish-purple stamens, a bud, and green stems, set against a blurred green background.
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #trillium
Close-up shot of a white trillium flower with three petals and a yellow center, set against a backdrop of green foliage and a dark, blurred background.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #macrophotography
Close-up of bright red, star-shaped flowers with green leaves and stems, illuminated by sunlight.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
Portrait in oil paint on canvas #artadventcalandar I have some plans for next year's portraits that I'll post about after christmas.

#oilpainting #portrait
Portrait painting of a white person with short brown curly hair wearing black rimmed glasses and a black patterned shirt. They are sitting on a green high backed chair looking seriously into the distance over there.
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Bees #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
A close-up of a bumblebee covered in pollen, centered on a bright yellow sunflower with long petals and a dark brown center.
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3. #nature #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Close-up photograph of a partially dried orange marigold flower with delicate, thin petals; the right side is dominated by a dark, blurred background and the flower's faded center, and the lower-right corner is signed "D.K. MacKinnon" with a website.
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM