Category Archives: history

Phoenix: Historical preservation area

10 Tuesday Apr 2018

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Phoenix, Arizona

An old building waiting some TLC in Phoenix’s Warehouse District, spotted about a year ago.

All that’s withstood the test of time

06 Friday Apr 2018

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Budapest, Hungary

The remains of a church in Budapest, preserved as a memorial to the hardships of the Second World War, as seen back in September 2015.

Arches at Hudson’s Bay

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The latest variant of a shot I love to take. These are the arches in the arcade at the Hudson’s Bay department store in downtown Calgary, snapped last week and filtered by Instagram.

Window on the past

26 Monday Feb 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Many Queen of the World Cathedral seen recently in Montreal, framed by the windows at 1000 De La Gauchetière.

Walking like an Assyrian

01 Thursday Feb 2018

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Berlin, Germany

A piece of Assyrian history housed at the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany, photographed on my visit there in September 2016.

Like in the good-ol’ days

24 Wednesday Jan 2018

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Stockholm, Sweden

A historic trolley operates near the Skansen open-air living museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Captured this image in August 2014.

The way things were, are, will be

06 Saturday Jan 2018

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Portland, Oregon

A portion of the Buckman Community Mural in southeast Portland, Oregon. Snapped on my visit to the city last month.

Place-du-6-décembre-1989

06 Wednesday Dec 2017

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École Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

En mémoire des victimes de la tuerie à l’école polytechnique de Montréal il y a 28 ans : Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Anne St-Arsenault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. Cette photo a été prise quelques heures après les évènements commémoratifs qui ont eu lieu en décembre 2014.

Medieval courtyard

30 Thursday Nov 2017

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Oslo, Norway

At the Akershus Fortress in Oslo, snapped in August 2014.

Isartor

23 Thursday Nov 2017

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Isator

One of the main gates of Munich’s medieval city wall. This image was snapped shortly after sundown sometime during my visit there in September 2015.