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Colours of the season

12 Friday Dec 2014

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

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canada, christmas, lights, montreal, night, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban

Coloré

The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and its skyscraper neighbour, Complexe Desjardins, are looking appropriately festive these days.

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“Please don’t feed the deer”

09 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, montreal, random, Travel, urban

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Chevreuil affamé

I must say, this one doesn’t look particularly hungry!

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Hold onto me

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Hamburg, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Hold onto me

One of the sculptures at St. Michael’s Church in Hamburg, Germany. Captured this image back in August.

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Human touch

17 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Norway, Oslo, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Human touch

Here’s a hand reaching from the sky to play with this cool fountain in Oslo.

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Gathering place

26 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Helsinki, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Senate Square

This is a neat public space in Helsinki. That beautiful building in the background is a church and all the people gathered out front were participating in some kind of art event that involved building structures with paper boxes … and tearing it all down.

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Fountain

21 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Helsinki, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Artistic indiscretion

As you wander the public market along the harbour in Helsinki, this is one of the pieces of public art you can see close by. And everybody looks.

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For a little good luck

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, photography, photowalking, random, Stockholm, Travel, urban

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For good luck

This is the smallest statue in Stockholm, found in Gamla Stan. At only 15 cm tall, I can believe it! Also, not long after I snapped this shot, a hobo came by and snapped up all the cash …

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Just hanging out …

13 Saturday Sep 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, fun, photography, photowalking, Stockholm, Travel, urban

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Not as dangerous as it looks

Is this a brave soul or a foolish adventurer trying to free-climb the Kulturhuset in Stockholm? Neither: She’s a mannequin.

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Flush with national pride: Toilets to celebrate Norwegian independence

26 Tuesday Aug 2014

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

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Tricoloured relief

What I thought at first was a quaint gag in this Oslo park turns out to be a permanent (and functional) art exhibition to celebrate 100 years of Norwegian independence.
Indeed, these are three original Parisian automated toilets renovated and reinstalled in Oslo in 2005, together bearing the slogan most associated with the French republic.
Read more about the concept behind this unusual art project at this link here.

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The Little Mermaid

21 Thursday Aug 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Copenhagen, photography, photowalking, Travel, urban

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Come a long way to see you

Here’s one view of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. Little would you know from this perspective but she was being absolutely swarmed with visitors at the time.

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