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Partway there

31 Wednesday Jul 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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Partway there, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

I love looking for random photo-ops between flights. Here is something from Vancouver International Airport back in December.

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Beary Merry Christmas

20 Thursday Dec 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, Christmas, random, Travel, Vancouver

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This cheerful fella graces the U.S./transborder concourse at Vancouver International Airport.

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River of fog

30 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, iPhone, Travel, Vancouver

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River of fog

Looking down from a plane at the B.C. Lower Mainland last Tuesday … that blanket of humidity was quite shallow. As our aircraft was descending for arrival Vancouver airport, the tires hit the runway not long after we pierced through the fog.

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Pagoda

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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Pagoda

This is Dr. Sun Yat Set Garden in Vancouver, as seen this spring.

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Urban totem pole

28 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, art, British Columbia, Calgary, history, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Urban totem

Awesome visual/cultural element ornamenting Vancouver’s urban landscape, seen last month.

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Another dog waiting for its master

20 Monday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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Waiting for master (II)

Spotted this lonely-looking pupster just beyond Vancouver’s Chinatown, toward downtown.

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Unflattering portrayal of a police officer

17 Friday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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Unflattering portrayal of a police officer

Seen on a side street in Gastown, Vancouver.

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Rooms on Keefer Street

16 Thursday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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Rooms on Keefer

Pender. Keefer. Columbia. Main.
Those street names in Vancouver’s Chinatown were oddly familiar to me on my first visit in 2006, even though I’d never been there before.
In a sense, though, I’d already been, thanks to a couple of novels by Canadian author Wayson Choy.
His portrayal of Chinese immigrants’ lives in early part of the last century gave a taste of what the neighbourhood would have been like.
Things are not that way anymore, of course.
But the landmarks and the names are still there.

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Visual trickery with iPhone camera’s panorama mode

15 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Apple, architecture, British Columbia, Canada, fun, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, technology, trains, transit, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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b.c., british columbia, canada, Canadian Pacific, history, iPhone, iPhoneography, panorama, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, random, roundhouse, train, trains, Travel, urban, vancouver, Yaletown

Roundhouse

This is the former Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown district, captured with a sweep of my iPhone’s camera in “panorama” mode.
It was really interesting to try this, because the roundhouse is built in the shape of an arc … so if you’re standing at the centrepoint of the arc and you swivel to capture the panorama, the main subject doesn’t look very distorted at all, while everything else does.

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Pyramid Falls

10 Friday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel

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Pyramid Falls

Along the Thompson River valley in B.C. … spotted from Via Rail’s Toronto-Vancouver transcontinental train, “The Canadian”.

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