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Inner workings of a photo booth

10 Friday Mar 2017

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

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alberta, calgary, canada, photo booth, photography, random, selfie, technology, urban

Photo booth

Ah, the purveyor of convenient selfies in the era before smartphones. A technician works on a photo booth at North Hill Centre, Calgary. (Ricky Leong photo)

If you’ve ever wondered what an automated photo booth looks like when the user interface is torn away … this post is for you. (And yes, photo booths still exist!) This happened as I was wandering into the grocery store.

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I’ll consume your sanity

08 Wednesday Mar 2017

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

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Toy store in Kensington, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Another delightfully whimsical window display, courtesy of a local toy store in Calgary.

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Red signals

07 Tuesday Mar 2017

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

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alberta, calgary, canada, light rail, LRT, photowalk, rail, random, skyline, station, train, trains, transit, urban

Red signals, Sunalta CTrain station, Calgary

A view of downtown Calgary from Sunalta CTrain station, the only elevated light-rail station on the Calgary Transit network. Snapped a few weeks ago.

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Facial distortion

01 Wednesday Mar 2017

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

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Distortion

A piece of public art in a yet-to-be-redeveloped space near the Sunnyside LRT station in Calgary. This un-retouched photo is one of a series of such images I snapped back in October to test my smartphone camera (iPhone 7) under adverse shooting conditions — in this case, backlighting and shadowing.

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Looking in wonder

28 Tuesday Feb 2017

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

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Look and you shall find

This is a profile view of “Wonderland”, a sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, outside The Bow office tower in downtown Calgary. It’s an interactive piece, as visitors can “enter” the head for a different perspective.

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Doubly meta! Photographing the photographer, photographing the photographer

25 Saturday Feb 2017

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

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Shooting the shooter, shooting the shooter

Here’s someone taking a photo of someone taking a photo. So naturally, I had to take a photo of them. Snapped on Stephen Avenue in Calgary a few nights ago.

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More snapshots from Glow

22 Wednesday Feb 2017

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

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Prismatica

Here are a few more images captured in Calgary this weekend from Glow: Downtown Winter Light Festival. From top to bottom are Prismatica, Pulse Quasar, Overseers, Smile and Nibbles.

Pulse Quasar

Overseers

Just smile

More bunnies

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Perpetual night

20 Friday Jan 2017

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

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Astral view

This piece of Calgary wall art celebrates the night sky. Spotted along 10 St. N.W. last spring.

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Merry Christmas

25 Sunday Dec 2016

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

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Christmas in Kensington

Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood all decked out for the season. I snapped this photo right before we were gifted a white Christmas! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

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O Christmas Tree

24 Saturday Dec 2016

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

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O Christmas Tree

It’s definitely feeling like Christmas inside this downtown Calgary shopping centre … and the Christmas tree looks so much more grand after the stores close and the tree has the mall almost to itself.

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