10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, Canada, history, photography, trains, Trains & Transit
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alberta, calgary, canada, Heritage Park, history, locomotive, photography, photos, pictures, steam engine, train, trains
Seen at Heritage Park in September 2008.
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, history, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, photography, photos, photowalk, preservation, random, street art, urban
This is street art put up on some boarded-up windows in Curtis Block, which stood on Macleod Tr. across from the Stampede grounds in Calgary. It’s something you will never see again: The building was demolished in July 2008.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
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alberta, building, calgary, canada, demolition, history, photowalk, preservation, urban
With all the building activity around 10 St. N.W. in Kensington, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice something was actually being torn down. That’s just what happened through the month of February in Sunnyside, where the old City of Calgary garage was being taken apart.
As some of you might have noticed, I have a soft spot for older buildings, even if they aren’t (or weren’t) esthetically pleasing in any way. The Sunnyside garage was a utilitarian industrial-style building that fit the character of the neighbourhood around it. That said, I can certainly understand its owners wanting to re-purpose the prime real-estate it sat on for something more mid- to high-density residential, as seems to be going on nearby.
Still, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad, taking in that musty demolition smell as I snapped this photo and a few others.
And within a week, there was nothing left but a heap of rubble. One more historical Calgary building to live on only in our memories.
02 Saturday May 2009
Posted in architecture, art, fun, history, photowalking, Quebec City
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art, canada, mural, Quebec City, random, Travel, urban photowalk
An oldie but a goody, from way back in August 2003.
18 Monday Aug 2008
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b.c., british columbia, castlegar, city hall, games, mascot, mascots, olympic, spirit, square, winter
The mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games were on hand in Castlegar, B.C., on Aug. 16, 2008, to help open the town’s new town hall and adjacent Spirit Square. Unfortunately for the mascots (and the actors playing them) it was about 38 degrees C at the time — roughly 100 degrees F.
26 Monday May 2008
Posted in architecture, friends, fun, history, photowalking, Travel
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canada, cape breton, citadel, fortress, halifax, historic, history, louisbourg, nova scotia, road trip, sydney, travel wedding
Just posted a whack of pictures from my trip to the East Coast to my Flickr site.
Here are a few of my favourites.
From my buddy T.J.’s wedding:
Outside the wedding venue … a giant fiddle:
At Louisbourg:
From the Halifax Citadel:
More on my Flickr stream.
02 Friday May 2008
Posted in architecture, history, photowalking, random, urban
On the edge of the Stampede grounds:
Looks like this building will eventually be moved.
21 Wednesday Nov 2007
Posted in architecture, history, montreal, photowalking, Travel, urban
Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal basks in man-made light and under moonlight.
12 Monday Nov 2007
Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Central Memorial Park, Calgary. More photos on Zooomr.
04 Tuesday Sep 2007
Spent almost three hours browsing through the exhibits at the Military Museums in southwest Calgary today. It was my first time there and I was impressed by the extensive collection of Canadian military artifacts dating to the Boer War at the turn of the last century. The institution was once known as the Museum of the Regiments. I intend to make a return trip once the naval museum opens there. Here are a few snapshots:
Learn more about the museum at their website.
See more photos at my Zooomr site.
Ricky Leong 