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Skateboard down

10 Monday Sep 2018

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

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This skateboard has clearly reached the end of its useful life. Spotted on a pathway in Shaw Millennium Park in downtown Calgary.

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Banff Gondola

09 Sunday Sep 2018

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Banff, Alberta, Canada

From a hike on Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park a few weeks. The hiking trail to the top of the mountain criss-crosses under the Banff Gondola’s cables.

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Mirror image

08 Saturday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A really smooth, shiny wall makes for interesting photo-taking in the foot court at Brookfield Place in downtown Calgary.

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Cattle call

07 Friday Sep 2018

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

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This hallway at the Centennial Parkade in downtown Calgary is lined with decorated cow sculptures. (Parkade is Canadian English for parking garage/car park.)

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Lapsed pigeon racers

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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An avian-themed piece of public art painted on electrical equipment just off 10 St. N.W. in Calgary’s Kensington area.

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Lunch Today

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Random lunch counter in Calgary’s network of pedestrian walkways. (Also, Brush Script in a store sign!)

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People of the land

04 Tuesday Sep 2018

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A long-standing mural in downtown Calgary depicts some of the foundations of Alberta’s traditional economy — agriculture and energy.

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Alberta Survey Control

03 Monday Sep 2018

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Clearly, something important embedded into a sidewalk in downtown Calgary, spotted last month.

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More hands make light work

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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I think there really are more hands in this mural, compared to the last time I paid any attention to this. Spotted just of Kensington Rd. N.W. in Calgary.

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Create: Magic of the mind

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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Part of a lovely mural at Arts Commons in downtown Calgary.

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