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No toys … these are real!

22 Sunday Apr 2012

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

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Comme des jouets

It’s fascinating how huge pieces of earth-moving equipment can look like Tonka trucks when seen from 100+ metres up in the air. These were parked below the tower at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.

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Another telephone poll …

21 Saturday Apr 2012

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

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Solidly anchored

… because I find them fascinating to photograph for some reason. This one was taken a couple of days ago in Calgary.

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Montreal’s downtown beacon turns 50

20 Friday Apr 2012

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

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Phare

Place Ville Marie is an icon of Montreal’s landscape. The cruciform skyscraper celebrates its 50 years in 2012. Apart from its footprint, the tower is known for a rotating beacon on its roof.
The view shown above was taken last week from the concert plaza outside Place des Arts.

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Shell of its former self

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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Désolation

Guided tour of Olympic Stadium in Montreal. It’s way quieter now than I remember it …

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Smokestack

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Cheminée

Lots of rungs to get to the top … Seen in Montreal this weekend.

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Cruisin’ down Ste. Catherine

17 Tuesday Apr 2012

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Promenade en voiture

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It’s just a front

16 Monday Apr 2012

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Tenir la façade

There’s a lot of work going on next to the Monument National on Saint-Laurent in Montreal. Almost the entire block north of the venue looks like it’s being gutted or renovated.
This building, for example, is just a facade when seen from the main street. You have to go around back to see what’s really going on …

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Multidimensional sky

13 Friday Apr 2012

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

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Multidimensional

So much blue up there, when the weather allows, anyway …

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Grimy smile

12 Thursday Apr 2012

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Grimy smile

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Slim fit

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Slim fit

Now that’s a slim profile. One of the coolest buildings in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal, as seen in 2009.

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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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