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Morning chirp

04 Monday Mar 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Bacharach, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Bacharach, Germany

Winged inhabitants of Bacharach, Germany, on the Rhine River, seen back in September 2015.

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Street map

03 Sunday Mar 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Cologne, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Street map

Sidewalk wayfinding in Cologne, Germany, from September 2015.

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Old religion, modern art

24 Sunday Feb 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Frankfurt, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Frankfurt, Germany

On the outside of a church in Frankfurt. Snapped during an afternoon stopover in the financial heart of Germany back in September 2015.

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Deutsches Eck

22 Friday Feb 2019

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

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Koblenz, Germany

Spent a few hours dodging rain showers while checking out Koblenz, Germany, back in September 2015. Here’s Deutsches Eck — German Corner, at the confluence of the Rhine and Mosel rivers — and its replica monument to Kaiser Wilhelm, not long after an epic downpour.

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Berlin Cathedral at night

16 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Berlin, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Dom

A nighttime view of the Berliner Dom, snapped on a visit to the German capital in September 2016. Behind it to the right is the Berliner Fernsehturm, a broadcast tower that doubles as a restaurant/observation deck/tourist attraction.

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Upwardly mobile

23 Friday Nov 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Berlin, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Berlin, Germany

From September 2016: One of the staircases inside the royal palaces of Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany.

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Forest of Ampelmännchen

20 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Frankfurt, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Frankfurt, Germany

This is what it looks like when the green figures first seen in East German traffic lights leave their cosy confines and fill up a public square. Seen in Frankfurt back in September 2015.

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Animal machine

19 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Berlin, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Berlin, Germany

Some sort of high-tech iguana with an exoskeleton as imagined by an artist in Berlin, spotted on a wall in the German capital back in September 2015.

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Cobblestones in the square

18 Wednesday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Dresden, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Dresden, Germany

A few steps from the waterfront in Dresden’s historic centre. Snapped back in September 2016.

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Out on a limb

13 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Germany, Munich, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Munich, Germany

This non-person is precariously perched over one of the main shopping areas in Munich, Germany. Captured on my visit there in September 2015.

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