Visiting Lake Louise

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Out on the dock

Here are a few snapshots from a day trip to Lake Louise earlier this week.
As lonely as my photos make the place out to be, rest assured this popular tourist attraction is as busy as you’d expect for high season.

Canoes

Lunch with a view

Storm clouds rolling in

Lakeside log

Striations

Ice cream’s worldwide reach!

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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.

Dogs welcome at this bar …

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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.

A couple more from Poppy Plaza

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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

It’s showtime! Theatre marquees

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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.

Calgary: A sidewalk city

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Sidewalk city

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

Hitting graceful notes

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Graceful notes

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

Broadway-Lafayette St.

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Broadway-Lafayette St. station

Ah, the New York City Subway. I admire your efficiency. Snapped this one about two years ago on my last visit to the Big Apple.

City of London

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City of London

In case you didn’t know you were crossing the Thames into the City of London … now you do! Captured last fall.

Adventures with Tintin

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Adventures with Tintin

Another throwback from my vacation in Amsterdam last year, a neat (and unintentional) juxtaposition captured on my first afternoon in town.