07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, history, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, photography, photos, photowalk, preservation, random, street art, urban
This is street art put up on some boarded-up windows in Curtis Block, which stood on Macleod Tr. across from the Stampede grounds in Calgary. It’s something you will never see again: The building was demolished in July 2008.
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Canada, photography, Travel
Another oldie … this one from May 2010 while on my way to Vancouver by car.
Here, I was fooling around with my pocket camera while stopped on the highway at Golden, B.C. I was waiting my turn along a stretch of alternating one-way traffic because of road construction.
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, fun, photography, photowalking, urban
The observation deck of the Calgary Tower affords a lovely view of town in good weather, as much at night as during the day. Here, we’re looking north, up Centre St.
On the right is the Bow building, still under construction but now the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto.
On the left is the West Tower of the Suncor Energy Centre (formerly the Petro-Canada Centre) which holds No. 2 status for skyscraper height in Calgary.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in fun, photography, photowalking, random, Travel
04 Sunday Mar 2012
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alberta, building, calgary, canada, demolition, history, photowalk, preservation, urban
With all the building activity around 10 St. N.W. in Kensington, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice something was actually being torn down. That’s just what happened through the month of February in Sunnyside, where the old City of Calgary garage was being taken apart.
As some of you might have noticed, I have a soft spot for older buildings, even if they aren’t (or weren’t) esthetically pleasing in any way. The Sunnyside garage was a utilitarian industrial-style building that fit the character of the neighbourhood around it. That said, I can certainly understand its owners wanting to re-purpose the prime real-estate it sat on for something more mid- to high-density residential, as seems to be going on nearby.
Still, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad, taking in that musty demolition smell as I snapped this photo and a few others.
And within a week, there was nothing left but a heap of rubble. One more historical Calgary building to live on only in our memories.
03 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in fun, iPhone, New York, photography, photowalking, Travel, urban
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columbus circle, iPhone, New York, photography, photos, photowalk, random, Travel, urban
The Time-Warner Center towers over Columbus Circle in New York as it blends into a pleasant, summer sky in August 2011.
02 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in photography, random, Travel
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The winter blahs and blues have you down? Then come travelling with me through time and space … back to 2006, when I spent a few days in beautiful Puerto Rico.
I have a few more photos from that trip over on Flickr.
01 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in architecture, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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canada, Concordia, Concordia University, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
One of the newer buildings at Concordia University’s downtown (Sir George Williams) campus in Montreal.
Very cool foyer, lots of art exhibited inside. Wish it was around when I studied there!
Taken in January.
29 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in admin
If you come by this blog from time to time, you’ll notice some slight tweaking over the last few hours.
Master of my domain. Welcome to rickyleong.com. The old “wordpress.com” address will have redirected you and will continue to work.
Farewell to the “yellow journalist.” I was never certain if the joking nature of the old blog name ever came across properly. And besides, this site is meant to encompass more than the journalist in me anyway … so the “yellow journalist” moniker is retiring.
Hello to “Random Musings.” The secondary name for this blog gets promoted.
Left and right. There are now sidebars down both sides of the main part of the blog, so you won’t have to scroll as much.
Trim and proper. I went through my links to other sites and pruned a few that had gone inactive or exceedingly stale. There are now also only two categories of links, to streamline things a little.
I hope you appreciate the changes. Feel free to reply with any suggestions or feedback.
Will do my best to keep things fresh here and share many more of my thoughts and images. Between posts, please check out my Twitter feed, in the right sidebar.
Cheers all!
29 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, calgary tower, canada, city vistas, photography, photowalk, random, urban
Sorry for the long gap between posts — but yes, I’m still here.
For the Family Day long weekend, I thought it would be great to go up the Calgary Tower to take in the view.
I’d never been there before and the weather was absolutely gorgeous on the Monday afternoon.
I wasn’t the only one admiring the awesome city vistas from up there:
Whoever you are, thank you for helping me make a cool photo.
Ricky Leong 