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Visual trickery with iPhone camera’s panorama mode

15 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Apple, architecture, British Columbia, Canada, fun, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, technology, trains, transit, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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b.c., british columbia, canada, Canadian Pacific, history, iPhone, iPhoneography, panorama, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, random, roundhouse, train, trains, Travel, urban, vancouver, Yaletown

Roundhouse

This is the former Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown district, captured with a sweep of my iPhone’s camera in “panorama” mode.
It was really interesting to try this, because the roundhouse is built in the shape of an arc … so if you’re standing at the centrepoint of the arc and you swivel to capture the panorama, the main subject doesn’t look very distorted at all, while everything else does.

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Pyramid Falls

10 Friday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel

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british columbia, canada, photography, Travel, waterfall

Pyramid Falls

Along the Thompson River valley in B.C. … spotted from Via Rail’s Toronto-Vancouver transcontinental train, “The Canadian”.

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Pretty in pink

08 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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b.c., blossoms, british columbia, canada, cherry, flowers, HDR, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban, vancouver

Pretty in pink

More cherry blossoms in Vancouver … just because! Captured a few weeks ago.

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Shout it out, loud!

07 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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b.c., british columbia, canada, graffiti, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban, vancouver

Shout it, loud!

Good morning, amorphous blob with a loudspeaker! Spotted in Vancouver.

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Protect your food from hungry birds!

04 Saturday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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Hungry birds

These stickers are all over the public market at Granville Island in Vancouver. Apparently the gulls are voracious to the point that vendors need to be explicit about not refunding patrons for food lost to hungry birds.

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Unseen musician

03 Friday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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art, b.c., british columbia, photography, photowalk, random, street art, Travel, urban, vancouver

Unseen musician

Part of a mural at a music venue in Vancouver, spotted last month.

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Dog on a leash, meet the Cat in the Hat

02 Thursday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Canada, fun, photography, photowalking, random, transit, urban, Vancouver

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Dog on a leash, meet the Cat in the Hat

Spotted at the public market on Granville Island in Vancouver.

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Vancouver Block

01 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, British Columbia, Canada, design, history, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Vancouver Block

A wonderful old building in the heart of downtown Vancouver.

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Vancouver: City of cherry blossoms

30 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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blossoms, british columbia, canada, cherry, flowers, photography, photowalk, random urban, spring, Travel, vancouver

Vancouver: City of cherry blossoms

This is a sure sign of spring in Vancouver: The city’s many cherry trees are in full bloom, give the place splashes of bright pink here and there.

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Double vision

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, photography, Travel

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british columbia, canada, mountains, photography, photos, pictures, rocky mountains, Travel

Double vision

Another oldie … this one from May 2010 while on my way to Vancouver by car.
Here, I was fooling around with my pocket camera while stopped on the highway at Golden, B.C. I was waiting my turn along a stretch of alternating one-way traffic because of road construction.

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