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Feed and seed

11 Thursday May 2017

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

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Phoenix, Arizona

Historical painted signs are as rare in Phoenix as they are in Calgary, it seems. Even in the older Warehouse District, south of the office towers in downtown Phoenix, things like these are hard to spot. This image captured on my visit there last month.

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Ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog

10 Wednesday May 2017

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Phoenix, Arizona

The statement holds true even if you’re just a neon sign in the shape of a hound. Spotted in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.

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Taste of Cuba

09 Tuesday May 2017

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Taste of Cuba, Phoenix, Arizona

This depiction of Havana, Cuba, adorns a wall alongside an access ramp to a parking garage in downtown Phoenix … and there’s no apparently obvious reason why this is here. (Was there a Cuban restaurant or social club here, once upon a time?) Image captured back in April.

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Everyone matters

08 Monday May 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, art, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Warehouse District, Phoenix, Arizona

This is among a handful of activism-inspired wall art in the Warehouse District, south of the office towers in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Spotted this on my visit to the city last month.

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Dilapidated double-decker

02 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, transit, transportation, Travel, urban

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Phoenix, Arizona

Double-decker transit buses are something I expect plying the streets of London, not decaying in a parking lot in a run-down corner of downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Made this sad, sad find a few weeks ago.

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Angles

30 Sunday Apr 2017

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

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Downtown Phoenix, Arizona

Fun with shadows on my recent visit to Phoenix, Arizona.

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Blue hues

28 Friday Apr 2017

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

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Downtown Phoenix, Arizona

Staring up at some office towers and a clear, blue sky in Phoenix, Arizona, a couple of weeks ago.

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Phoenix Public Market

05 Sunday Mar 2017

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Phoenix Public Market

This neat sign with vintage-looking typography marks the location of the Phoenix Public Market and adjacent café in downtown Phoenix. The exterior space is a parking lot most of the time but turns into a market on Saturday mornings.

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Taking a nap in the sun

03 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, random, Travel

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Nap in the sun

Some random verbiage spotted recently in a public space in Tempe, Arizona.

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Fancy footwork

23 Thursday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Phoenix, random, transit, Travel

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Public art in Phoenix, Arizona

This is some of the public art embedded in the ground at one of the light-rail stations in Phoenix, Arizona — a really neat way to make such project really accessible to the public.

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