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Calvin Binnema
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YEG; cycling; grandpa; abstract/minimal photography (sometimes birds & landscapes too); gardening; travel; retired
Recently, award winning photographer
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 17
An experimental image - I have my reasons for liking it, but it might not grab you. That's OK.
#artistsofbluesky #photography #urbanphotography
A black and white photograph taken from underneath an awning which takes up the top half of the image. On the right is the edge of a skyscraper. In the middle distance seen below the awning is a light standard with its top obscured by the awning. Between the awning and the building there are the bare branches of a tree. A few birds in the tree can be seen, but barely at this distance.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 16

In May I was fortunate to witness this exchange between an adult American Coot and its young.

#birdphotography #birds #waterfowl
An adult American Coot on the left is feeding its young to the right of it in shallow murky water. The image shows the moment the tidbit of food is being transferred from the parent's bill to the young. The vantage point is from above on an angle.
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 15
Taken in a downtown alley in Edmonton. The building on the left is about a block farther away than the one on the right.

#photography #BlueskyArtists #abstractphotography
A somewhat abstract photograph. On the left about one third of the image is of a red skyscraper with rows of adjacent square windows. On the right is a building much closer by with a tall rectangular window reflecting a blue sky with clouds. The window has whitish stone slabs on either side of it and a strip of green ones at the bottom. The camera angle selected is such that the 2 buildings appear to have no gap between them.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 14
A somewhat spooky image of pumpkins reflected in a dirty glass tabletop on my deck. I added my hand print before taking the picture. I softened the image thus giving it a more painterly look.
A photograph of a tabletop made of smoked glass which in the sunlight has a bluish hue. It is covered by rings of a whitish residue created after a rainfall was left to dry over a few days. In the top left third of the photograph the tabletop is reflecting 2 orange pumpkins on a deck railing. A hand print of a man's right hand fills the bottom right third of the image. The image appears to be softened to make it look painterly.
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 13
In July I witnessed my first ever circumzenithal arc.
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#weatherphenomena #rainbow #camping #BlueskyArtists
A view of the sky looking almost straight up. There are a few wispy clouds and a rainbow coloured arc with its ends turned up. This is called a circumzenithal arc. Tops of different trees are in each of the 4 corners.
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 12. A shot taken from Rice Howard Way in Edmonton, Alberta.
#architecture #photography #yegdt #colours
Three different skyscrapers fill the frame so that they appear to be touching. All 3 are glass each with a different pattern of panes and each a different colour: blue, teal, and pale yellow
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Day 11 of #ArtAdventCalendar. A rainbow created in the mist of Niagara Falls while gulls fly across it.
#birds #rainbow #NiagaraFalls
Part of an the arc of a rainbow cuts through the middle of this picture while gulls seem to be flying through it. The entire background is a bluish river with some white foam nearest to the viewer. Mist slightly obscures the view and is also the prism through which the sun created the rainbow.
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.
A picture of a common grackle sitting on a reed. It is shown from the back with its head turned so that its right eye appears to be looking directly at the camera. The iridescent plumage on the back is reflecting the sunlight.
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I call this one The Dancer. It was taken in a auto salvage yard a couple of months ago. I loved how the perfectly placed scratch interacted with the immovable rusty plates screwed into the back of the vehicle.
#ArtAdventCalendar day 9 (day 2 for me)
A close-up of the back of a junkyard car with rusted mounts screwed into it. There is a scratch that looks like an upside down checkmark between the mounts
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I've been slow to start on this #ArtAdventCalendar. I thought I'd start with this one. My photography is mostly focused on the formal aspects of a subject: shapes, lines, textures, colours or tonal variations. This one recently won an award in an Architectural Photography competition. Link below.
Close-up of a utility building that has various types of cladding with lined patterns both vertical and horizontal.
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I caught a fish! No, a pied-billed grebe caught a minnow and I caught it catching it. Well, OK, I got a before and after of a successful dive by a pied-billed grebe.
#grebe #birdphotography #fishing
A pied-billed grebe swims in the water with the evening sun shining on it. A wake trails the grebe as it swims The same pied-billed grebe as in the first image, but now it holds a minnow in its beak after a successful dive.
July 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I was lucky to get such a good view of a common grackle at Telford Lake about a month ago.
#telfordlake #commongrackle #birdphotography
Picture of a common grackle with its blue, purple, and yellow iridescent feathers reflecting the sunlight; the grackle is perched on a bullrush stalk.
June 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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One rack crammed against the wall of a store and a nearly empty car parking lot
Two e-bikes locked together to a bike rack mere inches from a wall A nearly empty parking lot with fewer than 10 cars
May 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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One from each day in Paris. Doesn’t do it justice, I know but I keep forgetting to post. Home on Sunday just in time to vote.
April 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Arrived in Paris.
April 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Happy Easter. Frolijke paasdag. Today a walk in sunny Haarlem and a visit to sunny Utrecht. Tallest church tower in the Netherlands. Canals with cafes below street level.
A rose and a tulip in a vase and reflected in a window. A box with a selection of teabags also sits on the table A 19th century stone church is seen from across a canal and framed with leaves of nearby trees A very tall gothic church tower is in the distance with nearer by3 story buildings on either side of and people walking about in the foreground A long view of a tree-lined canal with a bridge crossing it in the distance and two red kayaks in the middle distance. A tall church tower is in the distance
April 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Things I’ve done in the past 2 weeks: stood in the room where I was born, seen big churches, looked at lots of art, visited old windmills, rode bikes, ate apple pie with whipped cream, rode a fabulous public transit system, spoke some Dutch though it wasn’t necessary, and more…
April 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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I have 3 images in the InFocus Photo exhibit at the Wild Skies Gallery in the Renaissance Hotel by the YEG international airport until Apr24. If you find yourself there, it’s located at the end of the pedway to your right when facing checkin terminals. #yegphotography #abstractart
Photo of a white plaster wall with a line curving upward left to right and a ledge at the lower right
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM