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Greetings from your friendly neighbourhood tree

18 Saturday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Norway, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Balestrand, Norway

Found this tree branch flashing a smile back at me as I wandered around Balestrand, Norway, back in August 2014.

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Layers of history

02 Thursday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, photography, random, rural, Travel

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Layers of history

Here’s another photo snapped last month, while we were on our way from the Grand Canyon to Page, Arizona.

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Soft rock

18 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona

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.

Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona

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Melding of land and sky

17 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural

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At the exit of Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona

The clouds on this day mimic the gentle ripples of the rocks, at the exit of Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona.

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Hopi Point: Natural wood frame

16 Thursday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Hopi Point

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.

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Fading light at the Grand Canyon

14 Tuesday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Fading light

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.

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Crags, canyons and shadows

12 Sunday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

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.

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No passing zone ahead

11 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, random, rural, Travel

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No passing zone ahead

The view from the passenger seat last weekend, on a highway somewhere on the way to Page, Arizona.

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Dwindling daylight over Norway’s fjords

07 Tuesday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Norway, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Sognefjord, Norway

On a hectic visit to northern Europe back in 2014, spending one night with a majestic view of the Sognefjord in Norway was the perfect way to recharge my batteries.

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Historical living

26 Thursday Jan 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Germany, Oberwesel, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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Old wall

This tower along part of the old town wall protecting Oberwesel, in Germany’s Rhine River valley, now serves as someone’s home. Snapped this image while visiting in September 2015.

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