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This way

09 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in montreal, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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This way

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Hop to it!

08 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, random

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Non-chalant bunny

An appropriate image for the day: One of the many, many, many jackrabbits that hang around my workplace.

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Encounter with justice

05 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, Canada, history, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Cour municipale

Montreal municipal court, as seen in January.

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Now *that’s* a tie clip!

04 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in fun, photography, random

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fashion, funny, office, office supplies, paper clip, photography, photos, random, tie, tie clip

Utilitarian

Office colleague walks in wearing a paper clip where you’d least expect to see one …

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Table for one

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, random, urban

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Table for one

That’s what a wooden restaurant table looks like to the Hipstamatic app for iPhone.

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Street-side pixels

02 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Pixels

Seen in Calgary, yesterday.

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Old-fashioned inbox

01 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Old-fashioned inbox

Kicking it old-school. Seen in Calgary in March.

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Unlikely purchase

24 Saturday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in fun, random

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calgary, fail, funny, odd, random

Spot the error in this receipt from a purchase I made last week.

Spot the error ...

I laughed all the way back to my car!

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Waiting to cross

22 Thursday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, design, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Waiting to cross

Calatrava pedestrian bridge, Calgary, on March 21, 2012, just days shy of its grand opening.

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Telecommunications

20 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in fun, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Lines of communication

How easy it is to forget that our modern, interconnected world is ultimately held together with long strands of copper and glass fibre. We often don’t think about how important these infrastructures are until they are damaged or otherwise put out of commission.
Above, a chaotic street scene in the Mission in San Francisco. Below, less cluttered views of the same idea in Montreal, Halifax and Calgary.

Confusion at the junction

Standing out

Crossed wires

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Journalist by trade, photographer for fun. I help make multi-platform content at Postmedia in Calgary. Opinions expressed here are my own.

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