David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer

A close-up of a bumblebee covered in pollen, centered on a bright yellow sunflower with long petals and a dark brown center.

Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #nature #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Bees #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Close-up photograph of a partially dried orange marigold flower with delicate, thin petals; the right side is dominated by a dark, blurred background and the flower's faded center, and the lower-right corner is signed "D.K. MacKinnon" with a website.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3. #nature #Flowers #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Painting of the top half of a human skull surrounded by cut golden chanterelles on dark blue table against a dark background. Morbid and edible.

I'm in a pile of pain today so you are getting a morbid piece for #artadventcalendar The skull's name is Eggy.

Oil paint on canvas

#stilllife #painting #naturemort

A dark, shallow hollow in a rotting log filled with colourful fallen leaves, framed by blurred green foliage.

On the second day of #ArtAdventCalendar we have the play of light, shadow, and colour. #nature #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Painting of a stem of white orchids with pink markings and some green buds.

Water soluble encaustic paint on black primed canvas board.

#artadventcalendar #bloomsky #botanicalart

This tutorial is finished!! There are multiple ways of putting this wonderful dragon together, and each option is laid out for you so you can choose your own adventure.

#chainmail #chainmaille #motherofdragons #dragons #fantasy #instructions #originaldesign #weavinglinks

Black and blue striped bee, feeding on the nectar of a bright purple flower.

My spouse reminded me that December has an #ArtAdventCalendar challenge. Good excuse for me to post my #nature art images. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Bees #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday

#ArtAdventCalendar Guidelines Art can be almost anything. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography, digital. If you think it's art and it beautifies the timeline then post it. No NFTs or Al art please PLEASE USE ALT TEXT It does not matter if you "posted it last year". You don't need to be a "professional" artist. If you make art at any experience level and want to show it off and make others happy, this is the event Art must be original and it must be yours or from a family member with permission. Please don’t post works from other artists, old masters etc Art does NOT have to be seasonal. It can be pretty much any subject, but please keep it family friendly-ish Please don't cross post with just links to other platforms. Most links to other social media sites don't show with images at all and if they do they are usually thumbnails Please do not post prices or use BUY NOW kinds of posts. We are bombarded with hard sell at this time of year and that's not what this is about. This is not meant to be a sales pitch. You can post links to your website if you like Please share posts and follow participating artists. This is both an exercise to build a following of art lovers and to build a supportive community of fellow artists. If you like someone else's work, let them know! As "organizer" I do my best to share all art during the month but if I miss a post, please don't take it as an insult or commentary on your work. There are a lot of posts and I will miss a few. Note that I won't share posts that contain prices or buy now content Post daily or as much as you can with the hashtag #ArtAdvent Calendar There is no specified time to post. It's a worldwide event so time you post isn't that important Don't worry if you miss a day or two. Post even if you only have 1 thing to show off that makes the timeline brighter While the event dates are the 1st to the 24th, feel free to continue to post until the end of the month if you like

Are You Ready???

#ArtAdventCalendar

Oil painting of a saint-like man with a halo that is the nerves in the retina of an eye. His hand rests on a wooden board and mycelium grows from him into the wood. The golden frame is decorated with eyes and a variety of mushrooms grow from the bottom of the frame.

Oil paint on board
Castilene and water soluble encaustic paint on wood

#artadventcalendar #painting #wax #sculpture #botanicalart

Support from Dementia Society of Ottawa | The Dementia Society The Dementia Society of Ottawa provides support, coaching, education and activities for everyone impacted by dementia.

If you've got a stake in the fight against #dementia in its various forms, and you live in the #Ottawa region, you might consider asking for help from and/or giving support to this organization:

dementiahelp.ca

‘Nature’s original engineers’: scientists explore the amazing potential of fungi Unique properties of fungi have led to groundbreaking innovations in recent years, from nappies to electronics

The future is fungal

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Canada introduces new colour-coded system for weather alerts Environment and Climate Change Canada is introducing a new colour-coded, tiered weather alert system, the department said in a press release.

#Canada introduces new colour-coded system for #weather #alerts. #cdnpoli

Maybe it's related to the urban drone test this weekend?

🚀 Maritime Launch Services and Partners.

Lift Off

Close-up photograph of brown, dried thistle heads covered in white frost crystals against a blurred, dark gray background. The frost forms delicate, spiky patterns around the thistle heads, which are in soft focus. In the lower right corner, the signature "D.K. MacKinnon" and the website address "www.dkmackinnon.ca" are visible.

I've been busy setting up my website using Wordpress so haven't been posting much. Here is a shot of hoarfrost in our garden, taken this morning. #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #WinterMorning #Frost #Hoarfrost

N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

A painting of a cluster of chicken of the woods mushrooms. They are overlapping, shelf shaped, polypores with deep orang moving to yellow at the scalloped edges.

This chicken-of-the-woods mushroom painting is for sale now at Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario.

#botanicalart #fungi #painting

Metagenomics colleagues!

I'm looking for studies where both Illumina and ONT sequencing were performed on the same samples from soil, human, ruminent, and other sample types for comparison. Bonus if those studies include PacBio data.

Please help and share!

Water soluble encaustic painting of a cluster of pitcher plant leaves and flowers in different stages of life.

Whohoo, online sales are finally up! This pitcher plant painting is for sale at Cline House Gallery until Dec 20th.

Sales link: clinehousegallery.com/product/c-r-...

#botanicalart #bloomsky #painting

#Canada’s first free #foodbank #grocery store started in Saskatoon SK. Here people can shop and choose what they want/need.

No food banks receive any government funding. #FeedCanada #FoodInsecurity

Five square paintings of fungi and flowers on black backgrounds. Pitcher plants, chocken of the woods, jack o'lantern mushrooms, ghost pipes, and orchids.

These are at the Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario, from November 6th to December 20th. Vernissage November 6th at 7pm.

#botanicalart #mushrooms #fungi #flowers #bloomsky

Bluesky autopost test This is a test of automatically posting to Bluesky from my WordPress account.

Testing a plugin to automatically post to Bluesky from my Wordpress account.

Pancreatic cancer relies on opposing signalling pathways to drive its cellular diversity Communication between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer leads to a poor prognosis. The molecular basis for this signalling has now been revealed.

The molecular basis for signalling between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer has now been revealed

go.nature.com/3Jlu490

Text on blue background: "we're open for submissions" and "submit your poetry, flash prose, and fiction to Variant Literature between October 21 and December 4"

We can't wait to read your work!

variantlit.com/submit/

Close-up of pussy willows catkins done in watercolor which look like real living plants even when I get really close.

How the fuck is this done in watercolor painting?? Close-up of watercolor painting of pussywillows by Rosalind Allchin. Botanical artists are badass. #botanicalart

New digital cover for SUMMON THE KEEPER -- it was a dark and stormy night, a black and white cat peers over the roof of a victorian (slightly Queen Anne but let's not be architecturally pedantic) house. There's caution tape over the door and silhouettes of a bat, a werewolf, and tentacles in the windows. The cat's expression says he's had enough of this shit.

New digital cover for THE SECOND SUMMONING: in the background, a human torso wearing a beige sweater. The person is holding a very large tea cup that holds in turn an orange almost kitten and some tentacles. There's a line drawing of the Toronto skyline on the tea cup. The cat's expression suggests he hasn't noticed the tentacles not that it would matter because he's just too sweet for this world. He's not actually wrong...

New ebook editions of SUMMON THE KEEPER and THE SECOND SUMMONING with new ebook edition covers are now available. 1/3

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.

Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms

I've been spending so much time decommissioning the old website and figuring out the new one that I've done almost no photo processing since August. Good thing I no longer do trade-for-print or I'd have some unhappy models waiting on stuff.