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Sandy McClearn
@sandymcclearn.bsky.social
P.Eng. + PMP. Warships IFR magazine contributor. Photography & Maritime History. Based in Nova Scotia. https://smcclearn.smugmug.com/ https://sandblings.blogspot.com/
#photography #shipping #warships #landscape #seascape #blackandwhite
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A short intro for my first post - I'm an engineer, project manager, and photographer based in Nova Scotia. I will take photos of just about anything but there is often a maritime or nautical angle. I've put my Twitter account on hiatus and I'm trying some new platforms. Nice to meet you!
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Snow drifts on the ice surrounding a small island in a pond on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. I thought it was a cool image - my wife says it looks like a pile of vomit. 😂 #winter #photography #drone #aerial #landscape #pond #ice #snow #cold #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Carry Me Home

A slow spiral of iron and light —
quiet, patient,
and full of memory.

Some spaces don’t rush you.
They hold you.

#TherapyThroughMyLens
#TulipStaircase
#ArchitecturePhotography
#QuietBeauty
#MindfulPhotography
#LightAndShadow
#BnW
#blackandwhite
#photography
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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'a Winter's Palette' (2025) -- Brunswick River Path, Brunswick, ME

'In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was, in me, an invincible summer' -- Albert Camus

#Stunday#ImageAndVerse

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
December 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
View from Pond Inlet on Baffin Island of a mountain on Bylot Island along the shore of Eclipse Sound. #photography #mono #classicmono #blackandwhite #monochrome #landscape #scape #mountain #cloud #north #arctic #baffinisland #pondinlet #EastCoastKin
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Carriage gears and wheels supporting an RML gun guarding the harbour entrance at York Redoubt in Halifax, Nova Scotia. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono #history #mechanical #mechanism #EastCoastKin
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Containership Atlantic Sun seen from Chebucto Head on departure from Halifax, Nova Scotia. #photography #ship #maritime #nautical #sea #trade #landscape #seascape #shipsinpics #EastCoastKin
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
More Sambro reflections - this time the Canadian Coast Guard rescue boat Hare Bay. #photography #reflection #water #coastguard #canadian #canada #waterline #mirror #boat #nautical #maritime #EastCoastKin
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Himalayan Flooflord!

Thanks for the mountain of love lately. I’ll find something other than mountains for the next posts! 😝✌🏽❤️

#stunday #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #art #mountains #scape #outdoor #landscape #stormhour #photohour #hiking #bluesky #sunday #blueskymonday #landscapephotography
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Foundation Maritime’s deep sea salvage tug Foundation Franklin operated from Halifax in the 1930s & 1940s including the SWW, as told in Farley Mowat’s “The Grey Seas Under”. Some company archives photos are on my blog. #salvage #towing #maritime #history sandblings.blogspot.com/2025/11/foun...
Foundation Franklin
What eventually became a sizable fleet of salvage tugs and other vessels began in early 1930 when the former HMS Frisky, a Royal Navy fleet ...
sandblings.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Gatineau and the Gatineau River from the air on the approach to Ottawa last week. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #aerial #plane #landscape #gatineau #river #quebec #canada #EastCoastKin
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Stark Realities' (2025) -- Bright Hard Light Streams Through Tree Trunks at the Edge of the Forested Campsite, in the Distance a Few Camper / Trailers, Thomas Point Beach, Outer Brunswick, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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'Spitfire' (2014) -- Fredvang City Limits, Lofoten Archipelago, Arctic Norway

'One Day, All Dem Bags Gonna Get in Your Way...
So Pack Light' -- Erykah Badu

#Stunday#ImageAndVerse#MountainMonday#RockinTuesday

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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'Traversing Huguenot' (2022) -- In Between Steep, Ascending Segments, a Level Path & Good Amounts of Cooling Shade, Mount Huguenot, Acadia National Park, ME

Fridays Are For #Scape ✨ & #ForestFriday

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A Dash 8 on the tarmac at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in the background of another Dash 8’s spinning propeller. #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #aviation #aircraft #motionblur #bombardier #dash8 #halifax #novascotia #cityscape #scape #EastCoastKin
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Pine needles floating behind a water level control dam in Bedford, NS. #photography #drone #aerial #dam #park #aerialphotography #bedford #novascotia #water #EastCoastKin
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Lineup of CC-295 Kingfishers on the ramp at CFB Comox as seen on arrival at the civilian terminal. #photography #aviation #kingfisher #rcaf #aircraft #royalcanadianairforce #comox #search&rescue #airbus #airport #EastCoastKin
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Apparently curling games are more raucous than I remember from my day. Is it just the brooms possibly leaving the ice surface, or rocks too? #CanadianCurlingTrials #Halifax #ScotiaBankCentre
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM