22 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
21 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Alberta, art, Calgary, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
Members of the public line up to view Light Shower, one of the exhibits mounted as part of Glow, Downtown Winter Light Festival, in Calgary on Feb. 20, 2017.
If you’d told me 10 years ago Calgarians would willingly line up more than half-an-hour to experience a shower of light, I wouldn’t have believed you — and I would have been wrong.
There I was, just one of hundreds (maybe even thousands?) of people who patiently queued up this past weekend to experience a piece of modern art called Light Shower, part of Glow: Downtown Winter Light Festival, an interactive, multi-disciplinary, multi-location display of modern art in Calgary.
You often hear complaints about public art being inaccessible, both figuratively and literally, but from what I witnessed this weekend, it can safely be said Glow was just the opposite. While not every piece was a smashing success, people seemed to keep an open mind about what they were seeing, based on fragments of conversations overheard as I wandered from installation to installation.
On top of it all, it was awesome to see so many people — including families with young children — out enjoying our downtown core well into the evening.
With hope, this event will make a comeback for many years to come … and given Glow’s apparent success, perhaps now’s the time to introduce more of such events, to breathe some life into Calgary central business district outside business hours.
19 Sunday Feb 2017
18 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
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arizona, geology, iPhoneography, Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, photography, photowalk, random, rocks, rural, Travel
Rock solid. Between a rock and a hard place. Hard as a rock. So many of expressions and clichés are built upon the durability of rocks.
And yet, wandering through the maze that makes up the Lower Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona, one can only be struck by how malleable rock truly is.
It was water that carved out the canyon. And with every summer rainstorm, it is water that continues to shape and reshape the place.
The result is visually stunning, of course — sunlight giving life to a wavy, rippling red-rock landscape reaching dozens of metres deep.
17 Friday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural
16 Thursday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
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arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, random, rural, Travel
Sometimes, nature gives you handy hints about you where you should look, as in this scene at Hopi Point along the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
14 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
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arizona, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, photography, photowalk, random, rural, sunset, Travel
As the sun dipped below the horizon on this day a few weekends ago, there was still enough natural light to capture this scene from a viewpoint at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona.
13 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
In trendy downtown Tempe, Arizona, stands the shell of what used to be the Hayden Flour Mill. The historic hulk, which occupies the southeast corner of Rio Salado Parkway and Mill Avenue (appropriately), can be seen up close. There’s a small park adjacent to the building and there are placards along the outside detailing the history of the place. You can even peek inside through the windows to survey the all machinery abandoned and left in place. According to the City of Tempe, the site is awaiting appropriate redevelopment.
12 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
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arizona, geology, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, landscape, panorama, photography, random, rural, Travel
This is the view from one of the many breathtaking viewpoints along Hermit Road in Grand Canyon National Park, at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. Our party had been dodging clouds on and off, all afternoon, a couple of Fridays ago and it was fortunate they had moved along far enough by day’s end to allow for some decent photography.
Ricky Leong 