22 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted in photography, photowalking, Portland, random, Travel, urban
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art, Oregon, photography, photowalk, Portland, public art, random, Travel, urban
A wonderful piece of public art on the roof of River City Bicycle in Portland, Oregon. Snapped this photo back in the spring.
21 Monday Jul 2014
Posted in Calgary, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, HDR, iPhoneography, photography, random
Calgary spent much of last week blanketed by smoke from nearby forest fires. It made for a few dreary scenes, such as the one above.
15 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted in architecture, history, photography, photowalking, Portland, Travel, urban
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architecture, HDR, history, iPhoneography, Oregon, photography, photowalk, Portland, Travel, urban
A lovely spot overlooking the City of Portland. This image was snapped back in the spring. Perhaps I’ll venture inside next time …
13 Sunday Jul 2014
Posted in photography, Science
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alberta, astrophotography, calgary, canada, moon, night, photography, sky, supermoon
Here’s my contribution to all the Supermoon photos out there. No colour correction here: the moon had an orange glow about it last night, probably because of all the smoke from a forest fire not too far from Calgary.
07 Monday Jul 2014
Posted in Flickr, Internet, iPad, iPhone, photography, technology
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app, flickr, Internet, iOS, IPTC, photography, tech, technology
With recent security changes at Flickr making it impossible (for now) to upload pictures there from my favourite mobile photo editing apps, I’ve resorted to exporting images to my camera roll and uploading them from the Flickr iOS app.
Although I’m happy to see most IPTC data are now being properly read and transferred by the app, one critical field always comes up blank when pictures appear online: the title.
Indeed, after uploading a test image for which every IPTC data field was filled in, no data are automatically read and converted into a photo title.
While this is just a minor inconvenience for uploading one image, having to manually re-insert titles for a batch upload could be quite the chore.
(And for the record, I uploaded the same image to Flickr from my desktop … and every field filled in perfectly, including the title.)
This is just the latest chapter in a long-running issue with Flickr’s iOS app and IPTC data.
06 Sunday Jul 2014
Posted in art, Calgary, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, art, calgary, canada, graffiti, iPhoneography, photowalk, random, street art, urban
Several months ago, I told you about an awesome mural in Calgary’s Kensington defaced by taggers. It suffered more damage since then but, subsequently, has received some tender loving care. What you see here is primer applied over some tagged section, made ready for the artist to re-create his masterpiece.
27 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in art, Calgary, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, art, calgary, canada, iPhoneography, photowalk, random, street art, urban
After the United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joiners left their longtime home on 10 St. N.W. in Calgary, a temporary wall went up around it … and soon after, the art began to appear.
25 Wednesday Jun 2014
Posted in photography, photowalking, Portland, random, Travel, urban
23 Monday Jun 2014
Posted in iPhone, Los Angeles, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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california, Hollywood, iPhoneography, Los Angeles, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban
Reaching a little ways back into the vault … here’s a photo from my visit to Los Angeles last year, from the Hollywood/Vine Metro station. Love the culturally appropriate film-spool-ceiling-tiles.
22 Sunday Jun 2014
Posted in photography, photowalking, random, Seattle, Travel, urban
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art, photography, photowalk, random, Seattle, sticker, Travel, urban, Washington
One of many pieces of cool sticker art spotted in Seattle this spring.
Ricky Leong 