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One day always follows another

17 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in New York, photography, photowalking, random, transit, urban

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One day always follows another

A view of Manhattan at sunset in August 2011, seen from a ferry on the East River.

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Flickr iOS app updates coming fast and furious

16 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Apple, Flickr, Internet, iPad, iPhone, photography, random, technology

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Just saw this pop up on the phone …
Enhancements include the addition of the ever-ubiquitous hashtags and unspecified “bug fixes.”
Will have to try it out later and report back on what “bug fixes” we’re taken care of this time.

EDIT: A long-running complaint of mine hasn’t been addressed with this update: The Flickr app used to use the ‘keywords’ IPTC field and turn it into Flickr tags. It hasn’t done so since the prettier Version 2 of the Flickr app was introduced in December. Very annoying.

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Recreation

16 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Recreation at Olympic Plaza in Calgary

Olympic Plaza in Calgary.

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All kinds of fish

15 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, history, New York, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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All kinds of fish: Faded paint in Manhattan

I love “ghost” painted signage on old buildings. This one is near the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, seen as it was about two years ago.

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Stair-eotype

14 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, art, Canada, design, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Winding outdoor staircases in Montréal

If you find yourself wandering some of the neighbourhoods in the central parts of Montreal, you’ll find many homes with winding outdoor stairs. This is one of the more colourful examples I’ve come across.

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Threads of our conversations

13 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, random, Seattle, Travel, urban

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Threads of our conversations

Neat lines created by telephone infrastructure near East Broadway and Pike in Seattle.

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Silky sky over Seattle

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, random, Seattle, Travel, urban

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View fit for a queen, redux

This is the view that awaits you if you take the time to hike up to Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. (You could take the bus, too.)

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Tall and slender

11 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, New York, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Tall and slender: The Flatiron Building in New York

Recently re-processed this photo, taken about two years ago in New York, to test a relatively new HDR feature within Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software. It certainly works in a pinch … but there are far better HDR software options out there.
At least the building looks nice. We can’t go wrong there 🙂

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Before the Internet … there was shortwave radio

11 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in broadcasting, Internet, iPad, iPhone, journalism, radio, technology, world

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Shortwave radio receiver, Sony 7600-GR

It’s been a couple of years since the aerial broke off this radio.
Once upon a time, I would have gone to great lengths to repair it but my geographical location and changing technology have pretty much put a permanent hold on any effort to fix this.
You see, the radio still performs just fine on AM/MW with its internal antenna; it does relatively well on FM even with no antenna.
It’s on shortwave where the missing aerial would be most noticed — and I’m saddened to report I’m normally not missing a thing.
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Gazing into eternity

10 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, architecture, art, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Gazing into eternity

The Bow and Suncor Energy Centre in Calgary.

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