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Destroying what others create: Calgary street art defaced

20 Tuesday May 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Calgary, photography, photowalking, urban

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alberta, art, calgary, canada, graffiti, photowalk, urban

Some create, others destroy

Of all the walls in Calgary to tag, why choose this one? (Not that I like this kind of nuisance graffiti anyway.)
I feel terribly for whoever installed the original art on this building and hope that it can somehow be recovered.

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Shadow from light

19 Monday May 2014

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

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Uptown shadows

Spotted along 17 Ave. S.W. in Calgary.

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Flowers for Jimi Hendrix

18 Sunday May 2014

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

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art, HDR, photography, photowalk, random, Seattle, Travel, urban, Washington

Flowers for the singer

From my recent visit to Seattle.

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Filling in the blanks

16 Friday May 2014

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

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art, market, photography, photowalk, Pike Place, random, Seattle, Travel, urban, Washington

Portrait of peeling paint

Where most of us would have seen this as merely a patch of peeled paint on a drab concrete wall, one creative soul saw something more. Another image from my quick visit to Seattle last month.

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Spikes and curves

13 Tuesday May 2014

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

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art, photography, photowalk, random, sculpture, Seattle, Travel, urban, Washington

One of the many tantalizing pieces of art in Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.

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Towering flower

12 Monday May 2014

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Towering flower

A flower made of glass gets cosy with the Seattle Space Needle.

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Art on caffeine

09 Friday May 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Calgary, food, photography, random

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Art on caffeine

Some of the baristas at this Calgary coffee shop have drizzle skillz.

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Look and you will see

07 Wednesday May 2014

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

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art, Oregon, photography, photowalk, Portland, random, sculpture, Travel, urban

Peering through your eyes

A fortuitous capture outside Providence Park in Portland, Oregon. I shuffled around for a better view and found some faces staring back at me through the giant mask’s own eyes.

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Split personality

06 Tuesday May 2014

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

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art, Oregon, photowalk, Portland, random, sticker, street art, urban

Interspecies representation

A strange melding of bird and human, seen posted on a wall somewhere in northeast Portland, Oregon, last month.

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Rusty wave

05 Monday May 2014

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

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Found this cool hand on a wall in northeast Portland last month.

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