18 Friday Sep 2015
Posted in art, Berlin, Germany, history, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
26 Friday Jun 2015
This sign, hung on the counter of London Barbers in Kensington, might be one of the last (if not the only) remaining visible reminder of the old Lido café, just down the street on 10 St. N.W. in Calgary.
The Lido site is now a big hole in the ground, ready to welcome a new multi-storey residential building that will bear the same name.
17 Wednesday Dec 2014
Posted in art, history, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
08 Monday Dec 2014
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canada, commemmoration, memorial, montreal, park, Polytechnique, quebec
To the little girl in the pink jacket, the little patch of raised stone adorned with metallic shapes was just something else at the park for her to play with.
As she gingerly balanced herself, her mother extended a guiding hand and gently scolded her: “You can’t walk on that.”
The girl couldn’t have been older than five, couldn’t have known what her mom knew. It wasn’t any old structure in any old park on any other day.
The bits of metal spelled out Hélène Colgan, the letters adorning one of 14 stone markers for 14 young women, victims of a massacre at the University of Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989.
Saturday, Dec. 6, marked a quarter century since this horrific act of violence.
The little girl and her family were among many who passed through this long, narrow memorial park just a stone’s throw from the university.
Flowers and candles paid silent tribute to so many lives lost far too soon.
11 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in history, photography, photowalking, Tallinn, Travel, urban
15 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in history, Norway, Oslo, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
07 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in history, photography, photowalking, Stockholm, Travel, urban
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HDR, history, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, random, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel, urban
A view of one of the narrow lanes in Gamla Stan, the oldest part of Stockholm.
05 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in architecture, history, photography, photowalking, Stockholm, Travel, urban
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architecture, HDR, history, photography, photowalk, random, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel, urban
A snapshot from the old Gamla Stan quarter of Stockholm.
26 Tuesday Aug 2014
Posted in art, history, Oslo, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
What I thought at first was a quaint gag in this Oslo park turns out to be a permanent (and functional) art exhibition to celebrate 100 years of Norwegian independence.
Indeed, these are three original Parisian automated toilets renovated and reinstalled in Oslo in 2005, together bearing the slogan most associated with the French republic.
Read more about the concept behind this unusual art project at this link here.
17 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in art, Hamburg, history, photography, photowalking, Travel, urban
Ricky Leong 