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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️

@gardeningdame.bsky.social

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🌿 Master Gardener & Photographer Capturing the beauty of nature & community through my lens. 📸🍁🇨🇦 Nikon Z7/ Z50

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · Jan 25

Let's connect! 📸

Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 2d

Time Will Tell - Laura Thomas Photography
Emerging Hairstylist Emma Nightingale
Model Julia Correia
Salon Contessa Semi Finalist for 2026
#vancouver #contessaawards #contessa2026 #hairstyle #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #photography #hairphotography

Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 3d

Timelore - Laura Thomas Photography
Hair: Emma Nightingale
Model :Julia Correia
Salon Contessa Semi Finalist for 2026 - Vancouver, BC. Canada
#contessaawards #contessa2026 #hairtransformation #hairstyle #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #photography #hairphotography

Contessa 2026 semi finalist for Emerging Stylist

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat.

Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre

(oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 4d

Clockwork Queen - Laura Thomas Photography
Hairstylist Emma Nightingale
Model Julia Correia
Salon Contessa Semi Finalist for 2026
New Westminster, BC. Canada
@salonmagazine #contessaawards #contessa2026 #hairstyle #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #photography #hairphotography

Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🙏

Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 5d

Temporal Aristocrat - Laura Thomas Photography
Hairstylist: Emma Nightingale
Model: Julia Correia
Salon Contessa Semi Finalist for 2026 BC. Canada @salonmagazine #contessaawards #contessa2026 #HairTransformation #hairstyle #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #photography #hairphotography

A creative portrait of a wealthy aristocrat holding time.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 6d

I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace

Proof that a federal ban on assault weapons work

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 7d

The Alchemy of Light - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #BloomScrolling #cosmos #flowers #dappledlight #blueskyartshow #Glow

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 9d

Breath of Sun - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #feathers #art #fineartphotography

A line of feathers placed in a railing along the path along Argue street in Port Coquitlam.

Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 10d

After Light - Laura Thomas Photography - Pitt River, Port Coquitlam 2025

#photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birds 🦉 #blueheron #sillouette #shadows

A side channel from the Pitt River curves into shadows with the silhouette of a blue heron on the waterline.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 11d

Thread Lightly - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #spiderweb #fall

A spider web bends in the wind, glistening with morning dew.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 11d

Fallen - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #fall

A dandelion poof leans close to the ground

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 13d

"It's about being alive & feisty & not sitting down & not shutting up...even if people would like you to." P!NK

#PinkMon #ColorOfTheDay #photography #bloomscrolling #quotes #nature #flowers #resist #actup #LOUDER

Pinky/purple dahlias growing closely together surrounded by buds yet to bloom.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 19d

Another thing we need to manufacture more of, menstruation products. I have only been able to find one brand locally that's a made in Canada. At shoppers drug Mart, the life brand makes pads that are made in Canada. But the selection is super limited.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 19d

Oh yeah, they're super pricey. I found good luck at London drugs or shoppers drug Mart when they go on sale, but the price at Costco can't be beat

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 19d

I have found a surprising amount of quality shampoo & conditioner sets at Costco that are made in Canada. Including Marc Anthony hair products & Nutrius Brazilian Shampoo & Conditioner & John Frieda hair kits.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 23d

Frayed & Feathered - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #feathers #fineartphotography #art

A fringed feather tucked into a fence post

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 24d

Petal Pusher - Laura Thomas Photography - Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #BloomScrolling #roses #FineArtPhotography #art

A photograph of a red rose with a deep view between the petals

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 25d

Starlight - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #BloomScrolling #wildflowers #bcwildflowers #pearlyeverlasting #fineartphotography #art

Wildflower Pearly Everlasting growing on the side of the PoCo Trail.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 26d

we've been in full on emperor's new clothes territory for some time now, but we're in the version where all the advisors and half the crowd also strip down and call anybody wearing clothes a terrorist

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 26d

Hopelessly Red - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #berries #blackberries

Unripened blackberries dangle over the boardwalk railing along the river.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 27d

Twisted Lace - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2024

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #queenanneslace #BloomScrolling #fadedflowers #fineartphotography #art

Queen Anne's Lace blooms splay across a path, tussled by the rain.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 29d

Riverbend - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #blueskyartshow #angles #riverlife #themightypitt #shadows #reflections #workingriver

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 29d

Riverbend - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #blueskyartshow #angles #riverlife #themightypitt #shadows #reflections #workingriver

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