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Francis Mariani 🇨🇦
@designwallah.bsky.social
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Flâneur. Photographer. Cynic. Looking for beauty in the mundane. Lefty. No AI. No memes. No religion. (Almost) No politics. 🇨🇦
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Hemerocallis × hybrida
#bloomscrolling #photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada
Hemerocallis × hybrida, artistically edited (?)
August 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Silenced.
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #montreal #canada
A doorbell with a piece of red electrical tape affixed to it probably because it no longer works.
August 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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What’s your story?
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #montreal #canada #bloomscrolling
A group of blue Morning Glories
August 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Aisumasen, Yoko
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #montreal #canada #aisumasen
A poster for a concert in Montreal by the Hadron ensemble featuring Charlotte Cumberbirch, playing music by Laurie Anderson, Beethoven, David Bowie, Philip Glass, Grace Jones, John Lennon, Jules Massenet, Yoko Ono, Astor Piazzolla, Paul Simon, Aleks Schürmer, St. Vincent (Annie Clarke) et d'autres … A poster for a concert in Montreal by the Hadron ensemble featuring Charlotte Cumberbirch, playing music by Laurie Anderson, Beethoven, David Bowie, Philip Glass, Grace Jones, John Lennon, Jules Massenet, Yoko Ono, Astor Piazzolla, Paul Simon, Aleks Schürmer, St. Vincent (Annie Clarke) et d'autres …
July 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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une crêpe pour une tête carrée
#marchejeantalon #montreal #photography #food
Une crêpe complet
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Bílý Kůň, 354 Avenue du Mont-Royal Est
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #montreal #canada
A hat and a menu on a red round table A hat, a menu, and a beer on a red round table A menu and a beer on a green round table
July 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The photographer reflects
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #montreal #canada #blackandwhitephotography
The photographer reflected in a bicycle rear-view mirror.
July 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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#treeappreciation #toronto
A street tree with the crown cut off so all we have is the trunk.
July 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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June in Toronto
A diptych of a flower and crazing paint on a wall A diptych of a flower and crazing paint on a wall A diptych of a flower and crazing paint on a wall
July 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Three Daisies on Argyle Street
#photography #toronto #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #canada #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling
Dimorphotheca jucunda (Cape Daisy) Dimorphotheca jucunda (Cape Daisy) Dimorphotheca jucunda (Cape Daisy)
July 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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The inside of an Iris
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #bloomscrolling
A macro photo of the centre of an Iris
July 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Still Standing / Standing Still
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada
Discarded on the sidewalk: a wooden chair with a missing leg
July 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reposted by Francis Mariani 🇨🇦
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Hector Guimard, designer of art nouveau Métro entrances in Paris
‘Forgotten’ designer of art nouveau Métro entrances to get Paris museum
Collectors say creation of museum honouring Hector Guimard, who died in 1942, will right a historic wrong
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July 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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There is no escape from Algonquin Island
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada
A representation of a man running, placed in front of a wire fence. Photo in b&w
July 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #newdoorday
Two metal doors set into a diagonal corner of an industrial building. A mural had been painted on the wall and the doors, but one of the doors is new, thus not painted,
July 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Happy Canada Day
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #canadaday
A Canadian flag planted in a front lawn. It is made of wood, with the maple leaf cut out so that one can see the grass through the flag.
July 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Is it possible that in Little Italy they don’t know what “Sotto Voce” means?
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #littleitaly #video
June 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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A couple of interesting facts I recently learned about Clematis: the flowers have tepals, not petals; the flowers can have a different number of tepals on the same vine - mine has six or seven.
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #nature #clematis
A Clematis flower with seven tepals A close-up view of the Clematis stamens A Clematis flower with six tepals
June 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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ORDER/DISORDER
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #queenstreetwest
A wall: one section long-ago covered with ceramic tile comprised of random small, pebble-shaped orange, black, grey and speckled tiles / the other section covered with painted diagonal lines, red and cyan.
June 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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It’s a Con, but not CanCon
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #selenagomez #cookies
A packet of Selena Gomez branded Oreo cookies
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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James Bond in the wild
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #littlefreelibrary
A photo featuring a Little Free Library in the front yard of a home on Shaw Street. The glass door of the library is open, among the books we see a DVD of the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.
June 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Where Adelaide and Tecumseth meet every day.
#photography #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada
Two street signs on a signpost, one states "Adelaide St. W", the other "Tecumseth St.".
June 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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This call’s for you
#photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #toronto #canada #graffitialley
Detail of payphone art: a metal hand with fingers made of nuts and bolts holding a payphone handset - all painted blue. The rest of the payphone box is full of graffiti. Payphone as street art: a payphone box is covered in graffiti - stickers, paste-ups, scribbles... It contains a metal hand with fingers made of nuts and bolts holding a payphone handset - both painted blue.
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Francis Mariani 🇨🇦
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Don’t Let Ford Gut the Endangered Species Act
Tell Premier Doug Ford to stop Bill 5, a bill that would gut the Endangered Species Act.
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June 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM