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Gina Blank
@photosbyginayeg.bsky.social
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Wildlife, nature, and outdoor photographer, sharing my love of creation | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | she/her
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Gina Blank @photosbyginayeg.bsky.social · Jun 2
What kind of photos do I shoot? What’s my creative process? Who’s my biggest inspiration?

Learn the answers to those questions & more in the #ArtisansCooperative's recent blog feature!

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 - Fiery sunrise; nature is her own artist, I'm just watching her paint.

#LandscapePhotography #CanadianPhotographer
Photo of sunrise behind a variety of silhouetted trees--conifers along the horizon, some deciduous trees in the foreground. The sky is a mix of colours--some blue showing through the clouds, which are patchy and streaked simultaneously in various shades of golden, yellow, orange, and deep burgundy.
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 8 - Living in winter, dreaming of spring.

#NaturePhotography #yegPhotographer #CanadianPhotographer #Bloomscrolling
Photo of a cluster of light purple crested-tonguebeardtongue (Penstemon eriantherus) nestled among wild grasses. There is a bumblebee on one of the flowers in the centre, just doing its thing.
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7 - I love the spunk and ambition of chickadees. I witness them stuffing two seeds in their mouth more often than not. Occasionally three. Once, I had one take off with a full almond 😳

#Birds #BirdPhotography #Birdsky #WildlifePhotography #CanadianPhotographer
Photo of a chickadee perched on a small pile of mixed seeds covering the surface of a wooden post. He has a sunflower seed (still in the shell) and a piece of peanut in his tiny little beak. Background is a forest and walking trail covered in snow, in soft focus.
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Day 7 of Art Advent Calendar
Mixed Media Heart Canvas
Made with upcycled charms, keys, and found objects this canvas has a large heart as the focal piece. What you can’t really see is just how 3D it all is. #art#ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #assemblage
Small mixed media canvas with a larger heart focal piece. Canvas is 3D with keys, charms, and found objects included and is in a purple and blue colour. It is very shiny and full of found objects
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Day 6 Art Advent Calendar
Steampunk Seahorse
This mixed media assemblage painting features a resin seahorse surrounded by gears, fabric, metal ocean charms, and other found objects. The colours are more gold, blue and green. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #steampunk
Mixed media assemblage painting featuring a resin steampunk seahorse. The painting’s is roughly 5 inches by 7 inches and three dimensional with gears, bits of metal, fabric, and other elements framing the resin seahorse. The colours are vintage gold and bronze with green and blues representing the verdigris
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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How about my largest commission piece ever for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 6 morning.

Bison Valley
84x46 in 213x117cm
Oil on Canvas
2024
abstract painting of a mountain scene with a range in back and a greenish valley with a creek through the middle and a waterfall in the foreground.
December 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Doing some #HolidayShopping? Stop by Le Marché Bohème at Bonnie Doon until 5pm, and #SupportLocalArtists this holiday season!

#yegArt #yegArtist #ShopLocal #YEG
Selfie standing in front of my grid wall display of photo prints. Photo of me standing at my vendor booth. It includes a rotating display rack of cards, a table with calendars and bookmarks, and a grid wall with cavas and framed prints. Close up of one of my notebooks in the rotating display, with my table of stationery items in soft focus in the background.
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6 - We are both fans of sunbeams. I couldn't re-create this if I tried.

#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #iPhonePhotography
Photo of my black cat laying quasi-loaf-like in a patch of sun on the carpeted floor of a bedroom. Behind her is the window, with sun shining in, casting rays and sun flare in all directions over the cat's head.
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Chickasquee
#birds 🌿
Ridiculously adorable puffball of a bird with black cap and white cheeks is perched on the tip of a bare twig. It’s real name is Black-capped Chickadee.
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5 - What in carnation?! 😉

#Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #FlowerFriday #MacroPhotography #FloralPhotography #CanadianPhotographer
Macro photo of a carnation in bloom against a black background, with a carnation bud underneath, just starting to show petals. The petals of both the flower and bud are a creamy white, speckled with red, and red along the edges.
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 - I love when things grow or re-grow in unexpected places. Flowers in sidewalk cracks; plants coming out the side of a rock; and new life from what once was.

#NaturePhotography #YEGPhotographer #MacroPhotography
Close-up photo of a stem with pine-like needles, protruding from the moss-covered stump of an old tree.
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar: It's always hard to find the perfect tree-topper, but I think I've done it! #wildlife
A Great Horned Owl sits on the top of a thin evergreen tree. The weight of the owl bends the top branch downwards.
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3 - Still a highlight of my summer--photographing a female (or juvenile) merlin. This one let me get within about 6ft; I have a couple close ups, but I love something about this one.

#WildlifePhotography #Birds #BirdPhotography #WildlifeWednesday #CanadianPhotographer
Photo of a merlin perched on a fence post, looking over its shoulder. The background is in soft focus, but you can follow the leading line of the fence posts, running parallel to some trees, into the horizon of the image.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 2 - Nuthatches are one of my favourite birds. I love their little honk; how they move upside down on trees; and especially their little tongue sticking out when they have a seed in their mouth! This male looks proud of his snack.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #CanadianPhotographer
A female white-breasted nuthatch is perched on an angle on a lichen-covered tree-trunk. She has a sunflower seed--still in the shell--in her beak, and you can just see her little tongue sticking out. This is identifiable as a female, because the stripe on top of her head is grey to match her wing/back feathers (the stripe on males is dark, almost black).
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Just finished this painting of a branch, incidentally featuring a great spotted woodpecker! 😂

Watercolor on 30x40cm paper, 425g/m2 - but learned my lesson about trying to use anything but Arches. 🙃

#BirdArt #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolour painting showing a bird sitting on a branch. The bird, a great spotted woodpecker, is black and white with a red vent. The branch is highly textured and detailed with blue-green lichen and peeling bark. There is a hint of golden light coming up from below. The background is a slightly textured wash in shades of blue, cooler at the bottom and warmer at the top.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS #ForeverCanadian volunteers!

Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!

Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.

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Citizen Initiative Petition Verification Completed, Results Announced - Elections Alberta
EDMONTON – Elections Alberta has completed verification for the “Alberta Forever Canada” citizen initiative petition. Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, has determined under section 10...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1 - While the larch trees are stunning in golden yellow against dark conifers, I was struck by the potential of this in #BlackAndWhite... and was not disappointed.

#MonochromeMonday #YEGPhotographer #CanadianPhotographer #LandscapePhotography #OutdoorPhotography
Larch and conifer trees line a rocky mountainside, dividing the photo in half diagonally. The slope of the mountain in the foreground is light-coloured glacial rock deposit. The mountain slope in the background is also mostly glacial rock, but is in shadow, and yields a nice contrast to the foreground. The larch trees pop out from the conifers they stand alongside in the middle, as they are lighter-coloured and also lit by the sun.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Just a reminder, #ArtAdventCalendar starts tomorrow! 😃 Calling all artists of all media at all skill levels!

#YEGArtist #YEGArt #SupportLocalArt
photosbyginayeg.bsky.social Gina Blank @photosbyginayeg.bsky.social · 20d
The #ArtAdventCalendar is one of my favourite hashtags--beautiful, creative, rich, diverse!

Though I participated for several years on the former socials, this will be my first go at it on Bluesky. Mostly my photography; sketches and watercolour if I'm feeling particularly brave.

Can't wait!
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 23d
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Two more sleeps until the Under $100 Art Market! If you enjoy supporting local, consider passing through Lacombe for great gift ideas. I'll be there volunteering on Saturday afternoon, but you can find my work for sale there Nov 27-29! #ShopLocal
Under $100 Art Market — Lacombe Performing Arts Centre
VOTE HERE! LACOMBE\u2019S GOT TALENT
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November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The #ArtAdventCalendar is one of my favourite hashtags--beautiful, creative, rich, diverse!

Though I participated for several years on the former socials, this will be my first go at it on Bluesky. Mostly my photography; sketches and watercolour if I'm feeling particularly brave.

Can't wait!
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 23d
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." - Pamela Hansford Johnson

#BlueskyArtShow #Bright #NeverABadSunset #CostaRica #PuraVida #Silhouette
The sun sets towards an ocean horizon. The sky is clear, and glows orangey-yellow; the ocean waves rippling and crashing onto the shore are deep orange with the reflection of the light. A young man stands in silhouette on the wet sand, looking out to the horizon.
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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From framed/canvas prints to bookmarks to calendars; it’s here at Le Marché Bohème! Also, ask me about the #ArtisansCooperative while you’re here—at Bonnie Doon today until 5pm

@coopartisans.bsky.social #YEG #YEGArt #SupportLocalArtists #ShopLocal #YEGLocal
Display tale for Photos By Gina. Grid walls boast framed and canvas prints; a table in the middle showcases calendars, bookmarks, and small prints. A carousel holds note cards and journals. Close up photo of my two themed calendars: “This is My Edmonton” (limited edition) and “This is My Canada.” Post cards and stickers with the Artisans Cooperative logo. Postcard reads “Artisans Cooperative - A better handmade marketplace dedicated solely to authentic handmade goods. Shop the new cooperative alternative to Etsy - artisans.coop”
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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If you're not on your way to Le Marché Bohème, what are you waiting for? An art market with local creatives, live music, and a special gallery event as well!

You can find me until 5pm today selling my photographry alongside other artisans; let the local holiday shopping begin!

#ShopLocal #YEG
Promo graphic for Le Marché Bohème, featuring photos of my work on a holiday-themed background. Text on the graphic reads: Le Marché Bohème presents Photos By Gina; Nature and Wildlife photography - Prints, bookmarks, note cards, calendars. Christmas Markets - November 1, 15, 29, December 6 and 13; 10 to 5 in Bonnie Doon Centre.
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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#FloofyFriday. It's a thing. Tell your friends.

Black-capped chickadee at medium floof level on a mild winter day.

#CanadianPhotographer #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfBluesky #WildlifePhotography
Black-capped chickadee sits on a short, broken branch protruding from the trunk of a tree, looking at the camera. It is winter, and his feathers are every so slightly floofier than one would see on a chickadee in the summer months.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM