This piece of Calgary wall art celebrates the night sky. Spotted along 10 St. N.W. last spring.
Perpetual night
20 Friday Jan 2017
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Cologne Cathedral: Stone analogs
19 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in art, Cologne, Germany, history, Köln, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
The Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) is a magnificent structure looming over the city centre, just outside the doors of the main train station.
Given its sheer size, it’s no surprise the church is seemingly under constant renovation. The last two times I passed by, in September 2015 and September 2016, there were obvious signs of repair work being done to the building’s exterior.
As you walk around the complex, you’ll notice a workshop toward the back of the church, home base for the people who keep the structure in good repair. That’s were I was able to snap this photo of some very appropriate masonry, captured on my 2015 stopover.
Take me across
18 Wednesday Jan 2017
Posted in Frankfurt, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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This is one of the bridges across the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany. Captured this as I passed thru there in September 2015.
Trending in lock step
17 Tuesday Jan 2017
Posted in Cologne, Germany, Köln, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
It seems there’s something romantic about attaching a lock to the railings of a bridge as a symbol of one’s love for his/her partner. This romantic gesture is popping up all over the place, including here, on the pedestrian portion of a rail bridge near the main train station in Cologne, Germany. (Snapped this while passing through town in 2015.)
But as with everything, it can be overdone: In Paris, city officials had to remove locks from its bridges in the last couple of years because they were adding too much weight to the structures, to the point of causing a railing to collapse. And frankly, it doesn’t look too pretty after a while …
Intriguing figures
16 Monday Jan 2017
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As far as abandoned buildings, go, this is a neat way to treat the windows. Spotted in Prague back in September.
Tree
15 Sunday Jan 2017
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Lounging around in Prague
14 Saturday Jan 2017
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Free public wifi along with a bunch of artful, colourful chairs like this one … it’s as if this neighbourhood space in Prague is asking for you to hang out.
Berlin’s Museum of modern trash
12 Thursday Jan 2017
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Three-sided portals
11 Wednesday Jan 2017
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Staring up at this building on Oxford Street in London back in September, I found the window design particularly pleasing for some reason.
Street art for everyone
10 Tuesday Jan 2017
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Another sample of the street art adorning a remaining section of the Berlin Wall in eastern Berlin, known as the East Side Gallery.
Ricky Leong 