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James Rowan (aka Jimmy Knuckles)
@james-rowan-photo.bsky.social
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Photographer, Archive Technician, Musician & Creative Consultant from Cornwall & Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ✊🏻 🇨🇦 📷

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James Rowan (aka Jimmy Knuckles) @james-rowan-photo.bsky.social · Nov 14
My 1st post on Bluesky. Hoping to find some of my original Twitter peeps here as well as some new ones too... 😎

🎙🎶 It's just like starting over...... ✌🏼📸 #JohnLennon

#photography #art #music #film #movies #creativity #artists #streetphotography #monochrome #colour #color #blackandwhite
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"HONOURED CANADIENS", Storefront Display w/ #Vintage Montreal Canadiens #Memorabilia, Pitt Street, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 12-01-22

🏒 🇨🇦 🥯 📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #EastCoastKin #hockey #Montreal #Habs #photograph #sports #Canada #history #streetphotography #store #shopping #window #display
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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COMING ATTRACTIONS!

S N O W !!! ❄❄❄😖

* From February, 2025 - Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #winter #cold #storm #snow #EastCoastKin #weather #Ontario #Stunday #outdoors #landscape
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"CLOUDSCAPE No.2 DURING THE ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE" - 1:16 PM EST , Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 10-14-23

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #BlueskyArtShow #landscape #trees #sky #clouds #cloudscape #Ontario #EastCoastKin #color #colour #blue #white #green #eclipse #weather #phenomenon #pattern #texture
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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"SOME BIRDS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE CAGED", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 08-25-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

At times, a visual poem presents itself to you... & to you alone. -JR

#photography #architecture #bird #clouds #wall #stone #flight #freedom #streetphotography #monochrome #symbolism @stephenking.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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"A CROSS AMONG THE CLOUDS", Church Steeple & Cross, Ste. Therese de Lisieux, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 05-06-23

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #telephoto #architecture #church #design #roof #copper #patina #steeple #cross #clouds #color #colour #monochrome #blackandwhite #EastCoastKin
January 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"THE SKY ABOVE", VIA Rail Canada Railway Station, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 10-23-25

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #landscape #trees #sky #clouds #cloudscape #VIArail #Canada #Ontario #EastCoastKin #autumn #fall #color #colour #blue #Stunday
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"HERE AMONG THE CLOUDS", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 06-08-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #EastCoastKin #clouds #wispy #pattern #texture #sky #landscape #weather #wind #monochrome #blackandwhite #grain #ClassicMono #drama #dramatic #BlueskyArtShow #LightAndShadow
May 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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#BlueskyArtShow #SKY #clouds #shape #texture #pattern #nature #weather #EastCoastKin
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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"CLOUDSCAPE No.2 DURING THE ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE" - 1:16 PM EST , Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 10-14-23

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #BlueskyArtShow #landscape #trees #sky #clouds #cloudscape #Ontario #EastCoastKin #color #colour #blue #white #green #eclipse #weather #phenomenon #pattern #texture
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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'Tis the Season...

for more #chocolate consumption!

😋🍫🍊 #Lindt
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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"UNSTOPPABLE FORCE MEETS THE IMMOVABLE OBJECT", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 08-25-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

A most happy "accident". 😉📷

#photography #street #streetphotography #intersection #ivy #green #overgrowth #hydro #pole #traffic #pickup #truck #serendipity #juxtaposition #humor #humour #perspective
November 28, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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"STONE WALL, ARCH, & CEILING TILE DETAILS", Great Hall Concourse, Union Station, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 06-21-24

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #Canada #UnionStation #ceiling #architecture #stone #tiles #window #sunlight #glow #monochrome #blackandwhite #EastCoastKin #pattern #texture
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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"PEEKING THROUGH NEW CONSTRUCTION TO THE PAST", Union Station, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 06-21-24

📷: J.R. Rowan

* view of a #stone #column, vintage #clock, & #bronze #sculpture by Francesco Perilli, "Monument To Multiculturalism" (1985)

#photography #UnionStation #architecture #ClassicMono
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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JOHNNIE TAYLOR - "Just The One" (1966)

* #song co-written by guitarist #SteveCropper, #EddieFloyd, #AlBell & most likely also played #guitar on this recording session.

#RIP #STAX #MGs #music #MusicSky #musician #JohnnieTaylor

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December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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JOHNNIE TAYLOR - "Just The One" (1966)

* #song co-written by guitarist #SteveCropper, #EddieFloyd, #AlBell & most likely also played #guitar on this recording session.

#RIP #STAX #MGs #music #MusicSky #musician #JohnnieTaylor

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December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"A MAN IN HIS ENVIRONMENT", A Neighbourhood View From The Toronto Western Hospital, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 10-24-25

🔍👀📷: J.R. Rowan

* Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954)

#photography #skyline #architecture #streetphotography #roof #city #EastCoastKin @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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"PEEKING THROUGH NEW CONSTRUCTION TO THE PAST", Union Station, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 06-21-24

📷: J.R. Rowan

* view of a #stone #column, vintage #clock, & #bronze #sculpture by Francesco Perilli, "Monument To Multiculturalism" (1985)

#photography #UnionStation #architecture #ClassicMono
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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"GENERATING POWER", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 09-27-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

* Standing at the edge of a field w/ several Staghorn #Sumac shrubs.

#photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #Stunday #clouds #cloudscape #sky #electricity #power #electrical #towers #plants #blue #red #color #silhouette
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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"STONE WALL, ARCH, & CEILING TILE DETAILS", Great Hall Concourse, Union Station, #Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 06-21-24

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #Canada #UnionStation #ceiling #architecture #stone #tiles #window #sunlight #glow #monochrome #blackandwhite #EastCoastKin #pattern #texture
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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"LEGS OF STEEL", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 05-11-23

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #abstract #symmetry #industrial #architecture #concrete #steel #ladder #FireEscape #cage #wall #yellow #color #colour #pattern #texture #shadow #EastCoastKin
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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"ARABESQUE No.1", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 03-14-25

✏📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #EastCoastKin #pencil #shavings #sharpening #graphite #Tombow #writing #Japan #Japanese #shape #texture #grain #pattern #curves #scalloped #abstract #abstractart #shadow #monochrome #blackandwhite
March 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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"SALVADOR DALI POUR HOMME" - Paris / Toronto, c.1994, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 05-09-25

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #fragrance #vintage #bottle #shape #lips #Dali #SalvadorDali #surrealism #abstract #art #texture #grain #monochrome #blackandwhite #duotone #colortinted
May 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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"HOSPITAL CLINIC, SIDE EXTERIOR WALL", Cornwall Community Hospital, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 08-06-25

📷: J.R. Rowan

Same #photo but 2nd edit has extensive #perspective corrections made

#photography #angle #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #hospital #architecture #shape #pattern #shadow #sunlight
August 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"LEGS OF STEEL", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 05-11-23

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #abstract #symmetry #industrial #architecture #concrete #steel #ladder #FireEscape #cage #wall #yellow #color #colour #pattern #texture #shadow #EastCoastKin
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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"TRAINS AT REST", Oshawa VIA RAIL Canada Railway Station [1-2], Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. 10-23-25

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #Ontario #Oshawa #railway #station #train #engine #platform #tracks #travel #VIArail #streetphotography #typography #signs #color #yellow #orange #monochrome #blackandwhite
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM