Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 18h@bsky.app New York, 1991, my sister Mary and mother on the right. Mary was working in the gift packing department at Bloomingdale's. 001
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@bsky.app Ojibwe Spirit Horse, also known as the Lac La Croix Indian Pony, is a breed of horse developed by natives. Truth and Reconciliation event, Morewood, Ontario, 26 September 2026 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@bsky.app Bring Back The Future with Sharon, Guelph, 1991 010
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Female Monarch butterfly, Sainte-Foy, Quebec 1989 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@bsky.app This is a recreation of a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse - several families of the same clan would live in apartments in it. Women traditionally enter through the western door, men through the eastern one. Akwesasne, c. 1989 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@bsky.app A surprisingly cheerful David Cronenberg, U of Toronto, 1991 or 1992 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026@bsky.app Mohawk dancers, c. 1990, unsure of location markbellis.blogspot.com/2013/10/phot... 001
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026@bsky.app When my father was dying in the hospital I found the closet open in his bedroom at home and his slipper on the bed. Our dog Punch had been taking it out and putting it on the bed. 1990. Ilford 120 film, dust removed by AI. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@bsky.app Sami Family Bringing Reindeer Antlers into Hammerfest, Norway, 1982, dust removal by AI 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Dan Palmer, epic mustache guy from Death by Stereo, playing at K of C hall, Cornwall, Ontario, September 15, 2026 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@bsky.app Snow coats trees, Winegard Walk, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada c. December 1991 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@bsky.app Dancing under a rainbow - more photos and video here: markbellis.blogspot.com/2026/09/akwe... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@bsky.app The Sunshine Hotel flophouse on the Bowery, New York, 1991 - more photos here: markbellis.blogspot.com/2013/09/new-... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@bsky.app Homemade boat on Grand River, Elora, 1990s 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I took this photo somewhere in Washington or Oregon State at a powwow in 1999. More here: markbellis.blogspot.com/search?q=pow... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026@bsky.app According to passersby, the builder had exceeded the permit height and the local government issued a stop work order. The builder did not take it well. I think this is Oregon coast but it could be Washington, 1999. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026@bsky.app Gwen Jacob, topless rights activist, outside court in Guelph, Ontario, 1992 markbellis.blogspot.com/1992/05/deux... (In French) 011
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026@bsky.app My late mother in front of the Hale-Bopp comet, c. 1997. Long exposure with flash. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026@bsky.app Pagoda, Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, Narita, Japan, 1998 markbellis.blogspot.com/2026/09/nari... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@bsky.app I think this is a prescribed burn as it happened a few times in the early Spring. Akwesasne, 1990s 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026@bsky.app (Maybe) Dryad's saddle (Cerioporus squamosus) mushrooms 010
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026@bsky.app Opium Bed, museum, Penang, Malaysia - These were made for the purpose of smoking opium in the 19th Century - the little block is a sort of hard pillow. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026@bsky.app Some time in the 1990s - Telephone Road runs parallel to the 401 and Lake Ontario's shoreline. The only thing of any note near it is The Big Apple roadside attraction. Just a beautiful road - 100
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026John Brown, American abolitionist, established a farm high in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. His body was returned here after his execution , Lake Placid, New York, early 2000s markbellis.blogspot.com/2026/08/john... 010
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026@bsky.app Dalai Lama, Alanis Morissette Ottawa Civic Centre, April 24, 2004 He sometimes used the Tibetan gesture of slapping the back of one hand against the palm of the other to emphasize a point. Alanis Morissette opened for him 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026@bsky.app Near Keflavik, Iceland, 1992 - Looking down on a basalt lava flow. The plain is quite rugged even though it's level and it took us about half an hour to cover 500m. markbellis.blogspot.com/1992/10/icel... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026@bsky.app Swedish lady in the Blue Lagoon near Keflavik Airport, Iceland, 1992 - this is where a geothermal electricity plant is - that's just steam coming out of the chimneys. The water is warm enough to swim in year round . markbellis.blogspot.com/1992/10/icel... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026@bsky.app Lunar eclipse just after maximum, 28 Aug 2026 00-15-30 EDT, near Akwesasne, Ontario 071
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026@bsky.app Rain falling from clouds in Reykjavik markbellis.blogspot.com/1992/10/icel... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026@bsky.app Parking lot under construction - Iceland gets its hot watar and generates electricity from thermal springs. This parking lot will be heated from the pipes that will be buried under it. r. Reykjavík, 1992.https://markbellis.blogspot.com/1992/10/iceland.html 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Geysir (Gusher in Icelandic) is where the word geyser comes from. Iceland, 1992 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026@bsky.app Taughannock Falls State Park, New York, c. August 10, 1992 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026@bsky.app More photos from 1992 - E.A. Newell Golden Dome in Ogdensburg, N.Y. , hockey arena with a geodesic roof. Infrared film. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026@bsky.app c. 1992 (Colourized by ChatGPT) This is a house I passed in upstate NY - there was a mass of Tiger Lilies that had taken over the front yard. They sometimes remain even after the house has fallen down, and they are the only reminders that a farmhouse had been there. 110
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026@bsky.app Snapping Turtle, Tortue serpentine, Chélydre serpentine (Chelydra serpentina), trying to cross road - there are ways to safely help them cross in videos on youtube. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026@bsky.app The Ipperwash Crisis in 1995 was an armed conflict over a park that had been created on land expropriated from a native reserve on Lake Huron in western Ontario. These are staff bearers walking to Toronto in 1993 to try to resolve this peacefully. markbellis.blogspot.com/2026/08/ippe... 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026@bsky.app I lived in Elora, Ontario in 1991. There is a gorge made by the Grand River and Irvine Creek that runs through the limestone bedrock in the middle of the town. Peppermint grows in abundance at the edge of the water, and I'd go down the steps at night to the creek bed and smell it. 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026@bsky.app . Electrolier, made of a Mexican onyx column on a Nootka marble pedestal, Old Morris Tobacconists, Victoria BC, opened in 1892 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@bsky.app Canada's most offensive band, The Dayglo Abortions, at the Trasheteria in Guelph, November 6, 1991 I think this is Mike Jak on guitar 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@bsky.app Making pralines at Rogers Chocolates, Victoria, B.C, c. 1997 000
Mark Bellis @markbellis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@bsky.app Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City, late 1980s. 000
