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Stuff I didn’t know my portable camera could do

08 Monday Oct 2012

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

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Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, France, Paris, photography, photowalk, special effects, Tour Eiffel, Travel

Paris en miniature

My portable camera comes with some cool special effects I don’t often use … what better time than a vacation to play a little.
This effect makes everything look like a miniature scene. This was shot from the Eiffel Tower, with every element looking even tinier than it already is.

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Imaginary world beneath my feet

03 Wednesday Oct 2012

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

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Belgium, Brussels, Bruxelles, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

Imaginary world beneath my feet

Brussels in the rain, last week.

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Manipulation

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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

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Manipulation

Spotted this in Paris last week, around the corner from Notre-Dame Cathedral.

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Sparkling in her beauty

28 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in fun, Paris, random, Travel, urban, video

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Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, France, Paris, random, Tour Eiffel, Travel, urban, video

The Eiffel Tower in Paris puts on a five-minute light show at night, on the hour, much to the delight of tourists. Caught this video a few nights ago, just as I was leaving, at first unaware of this sparkling sensation.

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Paradox on wheels

26 Wednesday Sep 2012

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

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Amsterdam, Netherlands, photography, photos, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

This ride's a head-turner

How odd that the Dutch, on average deemed some of the tallest people on Earth, choose to drive the world’s smallest vehicles.

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Amster-tram

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Amsterdam, iPhone, trains, transit, Travel, urban, video

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Amsterdam, light rail, LRT, Netherlands, trains, trams, transit

Low-riding light-rail vehicles are omnipresent in Amsterdam:

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September 11

11 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in history, New York, photography, photowalking, politics, random, Travel, urban

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9/11, history, New York, politics

Where were you?

Tiles for America, Greenwich Village, New York. This photo was taken in March 2009 but as far as I can tell, this simple yet powerful monument is still there.

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Guerilla messaging

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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

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art, berkeley, california, graffiti, photowalk, random, san francisco, street art, Travel, urban

Stop driving

Fron a visit to Berkeley, Calif., in March 2010.
Here is my Flickr set from that trip to San Francisco and area.

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New York: The city that never sleeps

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in New York, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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City that never sleeps

View of the buildings overlooking Times Square, as seen from Rockefeller Center when I visited New York in August 2011.

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Sending the message home

25 Saturday Aug 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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canada, Dartmouth, halifax, nova scotia, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

Sending it home

A quaint mailbox spotted on my most recent trip to Nova Scotia.

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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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