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Create & Bare All

Martin Gisborne

A photographer who writes? Or a writer who makes photographs? The lines have blurred over the decades...

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Eleanor Rigby

Carly Butler’s piece “Man Overboard” (lower, centre) on display at The Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, May 2026 (see footnote for details). Picture by Martin Gisborne.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wed...

11 days ago
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A Matrix Of Our Own

Photo illustration/composite by Martin Gisborne.

Earlier this year I wrote about revisiting a book from the 1990s, set in Vancouver, BC, with the hindsight of having lived in this area for nearly 15 years. On Friday morning I decided, a pr...

21 days ago
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A New Friend

M out making pictures. Picture by Martin Gisborne. June 2026.

I recently made a new friend, and I know he’s a friend because he texted me and said, “it’s your friend M”. He’s not like anyone else I know because M is autistic.

I’ve not re...

a month ago
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Karl

Note: I originally wrote this in December of 2025 and have sat with it for a while, but I have been thinking a lot about the human concept of “loss”, and all that that word contains, of late.


It had already been a long day and I was...

2 months ago
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Natural Polarities

A rufous hummingbird collects nesting materials, Burnaby Mountain Park, April 2013. Picture by Martin Gisborne.

A few days ago I posted a note about an experience I had with a hummingbird while I was watering the garden;

“… a rufous hu...

2 months ago
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    Photographer, writer... About things that interest me, which may include; photography, art, humanity, diversity, music, guitar, aviation, history, science, technology, astronomy, travel, you know, life stuff. 100% human-made.

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