26 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in Germany, Oberwesel, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
25 Wednesday Jan 2017
Posted in Bacharach, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
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Bacharach, Germany, grapes, photography, photowalk, random, Rheinand, Rhine, rural, Travel, vineyard, wine
As you wander around towns big and small in Germany’s Rhine (Rhein) River valley, you’ll see vineyards everywhere — some commercially productive, some uncultivated. There are even grapes growing randomly along public walking paths. Snapped this image when I visited the town of Bacharach in September 2015.
24 Tuesday Jan 2017
Posted in art, Netherlands, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Rotterdam, Travel, urban
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art, Netherlands, photography, photowalk, random, Rotterdam, Travel, urban
This was an unexpected find in downtown Rotterdam, seen back in September 2015.
23 Monday Jan 2017
Posted in Amsterdam, art, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
This is what you see when you stick a camera underneath an art display hanging from the ceiling. Captured at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam back in September 2015. The work of art on view here is Lichtgitter im Raum by Heinz Mack.
22 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in Budapest, Hungary, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
21 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted in Budapest, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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art, Budapest, Hungary, photography, photowalk, public art, random, Travel, urban
What a cute place to sit and relax! Spotted this in a park in Budapest, when I visited there in September 2015.
20 Friday Jan 2017
Posted in Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
19 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in art, Cologne, Germany, history, Köln, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
The Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) is a magnificent structure looming over the city centre, just outside the doors of the main train station.
Given its sheer size, it’s no surprise the church is seemingly under constant renovation. The last two times I passed by, in September 2015 and September 2016, there were obvious signs of repair work being done to the building’s exterior.
As you walk around the complex, you’ll notice a workshop toward the back of the church, home base for the people who keep the structure in good repair. That’s were I was able to snap this photo of some very appropriate masonry, captured on my 2015 stopover.
18 Wednesday Jan 2017
Posted in Frankfurt, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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architecture, art, black and white, BW, design, Frankfurt, Germany, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban
This is one of the bridges across the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany. Captured this as I passed thru there in September 2015.
17 Tuesday Jan 2017
Posted in Cologne, Germany, Köln, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
It seems there’s something romantic about attaching a lock to the railings of a bridge as a symbol of one’s love for his/her partner. This romantic gesture is popping up all over the place, including here, on the pedestrian portion of a rail bridge near the main train station in Cologne, Germany. (Snapped this while passing through town in 2015.)
But as with everything, it can be overdone: In Paris, city officials had to remove locks from its bridges in the last couple of years because they were adding too much weight to the structures, to the point of causing a railing to collapse. And frankly, it doesn’t look too pretty after a while …
Ricky Leong 