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A little birdie told me

31 Friday Mar 2017

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

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Street art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Here’s a relatively new piece of street art in Calgary’s Kensington area.

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Off balance

30 Thursday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in London, photography, photowalk, photowalking, Travel, urban

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Covent Garden, London

A dramatic statue at Covent Garden in London. Image snapped this past September.

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Dream, love, peace

27 Monday Mar 2017

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

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Street art, Berlin, Germany

Here’s a hopeful piece of street art, spotted in Berlin this past September.

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Memorial to a doomed mission

16 Thursday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, history, London, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Ill-fated expedition

This engraving in London, on Waterloo Place not far from Trafalgar Square, is part of a memorial to Sir John Franklin, leader of an ill-fated 1840s expedition in search of the Northwest Passage through Arctic Canadian waters.

I snapped this image in September 2016, just days after it was reported the wreck a second ship from his small fleet, HMS Terror, appears to have been found intact and in perfect condition at the bottom of the appropriately named Terror Bay, Nunavut.

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Centre of attention

15 Wednesday Mar 2017

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

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The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark

Everyone wants to see the statue of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. (Even me!) Snapped back in August 2014.

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Calgary commuters

11 Saturday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Calgary, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, transit, transportation, urban

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Public art to Centre Street LRT station, Calgary

Public art at the Centre Street CTrain station in downtown Calgary: These poor figures are condemned to the fate of perpetually waiting for the next train.

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Hoot

06 Monday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Frankfurt, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Hoot, Frankfurt, Germany

This is a random ornament I spotted inside a café in Frankfurt, Germany, back in September 2015.

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Mind’s eye

04 Saturday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, art, design, Prague, random, Travel, urban

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Mind's eye

Another snapshot from my visit to Prague back in the fall — this one showcasing a pleasing (IMHO!) juxtaposition of modern and historical architecture.

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Taking a nap in the sun

03 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, random, Travel

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Nap in the sun

Some random verbiage spotted recently in a public space in Tempe, Arizona.

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Facial distortion

01 Wednesday Mar 2017

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

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Distortion

A piece of public art in a yet-to-be-redeveloped space near the Sunnyside LRT station in Calgary. This un-retouched photo is one of a series of such images I snapped back in October to test my smartphone camera (iPhone 7) under adverse shooting conditions — in this case, backlighting and shadowing.

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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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