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Transit mall

04 Friday May 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Trains & Transit, transit, transportation, urban

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A Calgary CTrain light rail vehicle travels westbound on 7th Avenue at 1st Street S.W.

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Superior Auto Body

03 Thursday May 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A neat sign outside a garage on 17th Avenue just a few block away from Stampede Park in Calgary.

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Special deal

02 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, Calgary Expo, random

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Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

One of the many collectors’ items on sale at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this past weekend.

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Saturday afternoon match

01 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary Expo, random

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Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

Calgary Expo is likely the only time you’ll see quidditch at Stampede Park, as was the case this past weekend.

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Chrome dome

30 Monday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary Expo, random

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Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

One of the many cosplayers at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this past weekend.

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Prime time: Shooting with my Nifty Fifty (Part 7)

29 Sunday Apr 2018

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

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of a series of images captured recently with my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8, affectionately known as the Nifty Fifty. This is a sign at Brookfield Place marking one of the many entrances to the Plus-15, Calgary’s system of pedestrian walkways.

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Prime time: Shooting with my Nifty Fifty (Part 6)

28 Saturday Apr 2018

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

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of a series of images captured recently with my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8, affectionately known as the Nifty Fifty. Here is a pair of well-placed eyes to look over a level crossing near the Sunnyside CTrain station.

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‘Hello? Hello? Anybody home?’

27 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary Expo, random

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Back to the Future, Calgary Expo

This is why you should relish asking questions.

A boy named Sam, attending a Back to the Future reunion panel at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo Friday night, lined up to ask actor Tom Wilson what it was like to play Biff Tannen in the trilogy. If he really wanted to know, Wilson told Sam, he’d have to come onstage.

“Get up here,” Wilson beckoned in a very Biff-esque way. Sam obliges … and once up there under the bright stage lights and the even-brighter gaze of thousands of spectators, Sam got to be on the receiving end of a scene in which Wilson repeatedly rapped him on the head while he asked, “Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Think McFly, think,” as he did to actors Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) and Crispin Glover (George McFly) in the films.

Wilson then declared Sam a professional actor, handed him what appeared to be a real Canadian $20 bill and ordered the kid to “get outta here.”

Actor Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines-McFly), clearly delighted, captured the whole thing on her phone.

It is an Expo experience Sam will surely not forget.

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Prime time: Shooting with my Nifty Fifty (Part 5)

27 Friday Apr 2018

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

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of a series of images captured recently with my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8, affectionately known as the Nifty Fifty. Here, some colourful discs that make up a piece of public art on 4th Street S.W. just south of Central Memorial Park.8

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Prime time: Shooting with my Nifty Fifty (Part 4)

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of a series of images captured recently with my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8, affectionately known as the Nifty Fifty. Here, a Christmas ornament still hanging on, reminding us of a colder season despite the obvious signs of spring in the city.

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Journalist by trade, photographer for fun. I help make multi-platform content at Postmedia in Calgary. Opinions expressed here are my own.

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