Dan Smandych

Pop Con YXE - Celebrate Pop Culture and Geeky Splendor Unleash your nerdiness at Pop Con YXE! Dive into Saskatoon's pop culture fest with creativity, games, and exhibitors. Your ultimate entertainment quest awaits!

My vendor application was just accepted for PopCon YXE! Come see me at my booth on May 2 & 3 at Prairie Land Park in Saskatoon!

#sask #yxe #artmarket #photography

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I have a social media problem

New blog post! This week we're talking social media and I start digging into my issues with Instagram

#blog #blogging #photographersofbluesky #photography #socialmedia #sask #photoblog #instagram #onlinenonsense

I just updated my albums over on my flickr account. Go have a look!

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Abandoned autoshop and station wagon in Wroxton #Saskatchewan, shot on #35mm

Abandoned autoshop and station wagon in Wroxton #Saskatchewan, shot on #35mm

#monochromemonday #photography #sask #canada #b&w #monochrome #filmphotography #photographersofbluesky

I now have something momentous to look forward to 22 years from now.

Jew Snooten sounds to me like the name of one of the background characters that hangs out in the cantina at Mos Eisley spaceport. They never had any lines of dialogue and no backstory to speak of, but for some reason their vintage action figure goes for ludicrous amounts of money on eBay.

Black and white photo of an old co-op sign

The vintage sign in front of the Co-Op in Veregin #Saskatchewan, shot on #35mm

#monochromemonday #photography #sask #canada #b&w #monochrome #filmphotography #photographersofbluesky

Exploring old roads Last summer I bought and started shooting the first rolls of film that I have put through a camera since either 2008 or 2009 (Ilford XP2, 36...

New blog post! Talking about dusting off my #film camera and exploring rural #saskatchewan

#blog #blogging #photographersofbluesky #photography #35mm #sask #photoblog #rural #filmphotography

Good. Bring it all down. Drag all of these abusive monsters out into the daylight and destroy them.

Like, come on. We're waiting.

Poolside after a rainstorm

Why can't I just be on vacation all the time?

#mexico #travel #palmtrees #poolside #cancun #vacation #photographersofbluesky

Yeah I'm eating it, but I'm having a good look at every bite before it goes in my mouth first. And then that restaurant is probably going on probation for a few months.

Love to see it!

This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.

Posting a chat gpt caricature of yourself feels like flashing me the std rash you got on purpose

Marvel legends Wolverine

The best there is!

Week 6 of my 52 week #photochallenge

#omsystem #photographersofbluesky #52weekchallenge #52weeks #photography #m43 #macrophotography #marvel #marvellegends #toyphotography #wolverine #xmen #mutant #deadpool #closeup

A digital illustration of Skeletor as depicted in the 80s He-Man cartoon. For those unfamiliar he is a a blue man with a fantasy bodybuilder physique. He wears a cross-body harness with some little bones at the center and a matching purple hood that frames hood face which is somehow just a yellow skull. Here he is seen yelling up to the sky and shaking his little blue fists at the heavens. Cutting him off at mid-abs is some gleaming 3D lettering in the style of the Masters of the Universe logo that reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

52 Week Photo Challenge - January If you recall, one of my goals for the year was to complete a 52 week photo challenge.  One new photo per week, every week this year, and po...

New blog post about the photos I posted in January for my 2026 weekly photo challenge.

#blog #blogging #photographersofbluesky #omsystem #m43

Macro close up photo of a coffee bean

The mighty bean!

Week 5 of my 52 week #photochallenge

#omsystem #photographersofbluesky #52weekchallenge #52weeks #photography #m43 #macrophotography #macro #coffee #closeup

Vacation! Happy to get away! Last week my wife and I escaped from the Hoth-like winter weather in Saskatchewan with an all-inclusive vacation to Cancun, Mexico. For some...

New post on my blog about my recent vacation to Mexico!

#blog #blogging #photographersofbluesky #omsystem #m43 #travelblog #travel #mexico #cancun

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Dancer in a stage show in mexico

Dancer in Mexico

#omsystem #photographersofbluesky #photography #m43 #travel #mexico #cancun #dancer #stageshow #dance #travelphotography

Three different types and shades of water viewed from a hotel and divided by lines. Poolside, ocean front, deep waters

Vacation waters

Week 4 of my 52 week #photochallenge

#omsystem #photographersofbluesky #52weekchallenge #52weeks #photography #m43 #travel #mexico #cancun #lighthouse #travelphotography

Close up of a xenomorph

#aliens #neca #toyphotography #photographersofbluesky #alien #xenomorph #actionfigures #omsystem #m43

Now with flushable pages! #atheist

Stages of autism realization * Hmm I have social anxiety * Hmm I have sensory issues * Hmm I have adhd * I kinda relate to autistic people * Hmm maybe I'm kinda spectrumy * Omg I think I have autism for real * Feel like I'm faking it * Just trying to convince myself it's autism? * Don't want to appropriate the term * Don't want to take a space not meant for me * Omg I'm autistic af

Stages of autism realization

A digital illustration done in a black and white graphite style with white highlight on a gray grainy paper background of a hand from the front in a fingers-crossed gesture. From the heel of the palm and down the wrist is lettering reading, ‘maybe it will happen today’. The hand is cropped beetle the lettering and surrounded with decorative rays and circles.