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Enjoying a moment along the Bow River

19 Thursday Feb 2015

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

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Moment on the Bow

Caught this picture with my phone as I was wandering along the Bow River in Calgary last summer.

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Colourful bollards

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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

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Colourful bollards

These eye-catching bollards delineate the edge of a skatepark in downtown Copenhagen. Snapped during my brief visit there last August.

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Stockholm panorama

09 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, Stockholm, Travel, urban

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Across the Riddarfjärden

A neat view of Stockholm’s central island from across the river in Sodermalm. Captured this on my smartphone during my trip there last August.

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Peace and love

08 Sunday Feb 2015

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

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Peace and love

This definitely qualifies as a serene window display, spotted in Calgary last month.

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Functional art

07 Saturday Feb 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, London, photowalking, Travel, urban

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Informative tiles

This wall in the Charring Cross tube station in London speaks to you, in a manner of … speaking.

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Spud buds

06 Friday Feb 2015

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

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Patates, prêtes à être pillées

These potatoes sure look as if they’re having a great time! Spotted somewhere in the Plateau in Montreal about a year ago.

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Lunch time

04 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, random, San Francisco, Travel, urban

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Out to lunch

From the archives: This ageless schoolboy enjoys his packed meal and a book in a little park-like space at O’Farrell and Fillmore streets in San Francisco.

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Two dimensional, three dimensional

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, montreal, photography, photowalking, Quebec, Travel, urban

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Voyageons dans le temps

Here’s a trippy piece of indoor wall art from the World Trade Centre complex in Old Montreal, snapped back in December.

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You’ve got the city behind you

25 Sunday Jan 2015

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

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Remorquer la ville

Spotted this piece of wall art in downtown Montreal on my trip there late last year.

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Around the corner …

23 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, random, San Francisco, Travel, urban

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Pointed tops

A couple of my colleagues were chatting about San Francisco Thursday night. As they mentioned the little alley named after Jack Kerouac, it got me thinking about what else was around there … and I dug up this photo.

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