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Tea … or not

19 Monday Aug 2013

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

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Clear choice

A lot of signs like this one are popping up all over Calgary.
Most of them are outside pubs, announcing “Beer” and “Not beer” … so this one was a little refreshing when I came across it.

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Halogen headlight

17 Saturday Aug 2013

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

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Halogen headlight

Spotted in Calgary a few days ago.

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“We ate your stick family”

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

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

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Heh heh! Spotted in a Calgary mall parking lot not too long ago.

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Beautiful message

10 Saturday Aug 2013

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

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You are beautiful

This electrical box in Calgary was an unlikely location for an uplifting message.

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Ice cream’s worldwide reach!

07 Wednesday Aug 2013

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

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Ice cream's worldwide reach

The pin map at Mackay’s Ice Cream in Cochrane, Alberta, shows an impressive number of visitor pins in very interesting locations.

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Dogs welcome at this bar …

05 Monday Aug 2013

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

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Dog tavern

Pooches surely appreciate the sentiment! This was spotted on 10 St. N.W. in Calgary during the Sun and Salsa festival a few weekends ago.

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A couple more from Poppy Plaza

04 Sunday Aug 2013

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

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Row on row (II)

Some experiments in post-processing here.
Did an imitation tilt-shift in iPhoto for the image above.
The one below was salvaged from a mediocre digitally zoomed photo, with a sepia-style tone added in Photoforge2 and a frame added in Flickr’s native online photo editing software by Aviary.

Solace

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It’s showtime! Theatre marquees

03 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, London, montreal, Paris, photography, photowalking, Portland, random, San Francisco, Travel, urban

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Flipping through some old photos today, I noticed I’ve accumulated images of quite a number of theatre marquees. Here are some of my favourites.

Great light way
Theatres at New York’s Times Square.

Bringin' U down
Plaza Theatre in Calgary.

Beethoven's Ninth
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.

Lyric Theatre
London’s Lyric Theatre.

Now screening
The defunct Uptown Theatre in Calgary.

Folies Pigalle
Les Folies Pigalle in Paris.

New Mission
San Francisco’s New Mission theatre marquee.

Corona Theatre
The Corona in Montreal.

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Calgary: A sidewalk city

02 Friday Aug 2013

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

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Sidewalk city

This is an awesome chalk conception of Calgary, spotted in Hillhurst a couple of weekends ago.

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Hitting graceful notes

01 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, photography, photowalking, Portland, random, Travel, urban

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Graceful notes

Spotted this not far from Chinatown in Portland, Oregon, during my visit there in February.

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