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Art coming alive

27 Friday Jun 2014

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Watercolour coming alive

After the United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joiners left their longtime home on 10 St. N.W. in Calgary, a temporary wall went up around it … and soon after, the art began to appear.

Art in progress

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Know your priorities

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, iPhone, photowalking, random, urban

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alberta, calgary, canada, cheese, food, photowalk, random, urban, wine

Know your priorities

Good to know what’s where! This simple, elegant piece of marketing is between Peasant Cheese and Kensington Wine Market in Calgary. (Also: it’s very fortuitous for the cheese shop to have opened next to a wine shop.)

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Holding out against the tide

19 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, history, iPhone, photowalking, random, urban

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alberta, calgary, canada, decay, HDR, history, iPhoneography, photowalk, preservation, random, urban

Holding out against the tide

With an entire neighbourhood disappearing around it, this house near the Calgary Stampede grounds has somehow withstood the changes. At last report, it was to be moved to make way for a condo project. When I last visited it at the end of April, it was already it pretty rough shape.

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Odd rental offer

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, photowalking, random, urban

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Chair for rent

This strange rental ad was seen in a Calgary window not too long ago … I wonder if anyone called?

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Night breeze

15 Sunday Jun 2014

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Night breeze

Revisiting a mural between two buildings on Kensington Rd. N.W. in Calgary, just west of 10 St.

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City view (Part 2)

09 Monday Jun 2014

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

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alberta, calgary, canada, HDR, photowalk, random, skyline, urban

Verdant

Fox Hollow golf course in the foreground, Midfield trailer park above it and the City of Calgary’s ever-changing skyline behind it all. Snapped this image last week.

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Enjoy for a limited time …

06 Friday Jun 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, history

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alberta, calgary, canada, development, history, urban

Endangered streetscape

Take in this view while you can: This block in Calgary’s Kensington area is about to change dramatically. The affected businesses here have either moved away or shuttered for good and the buildings will soon disappear to make way for the Lido condo building, named for the landmark Chinese-Canadian restaurant seen here.

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Yarn good friends

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, photowalking, random, urban

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Yarn good friends

The pun in the title was irresistible! This is from the window display of a Calgary toy store.

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The eyes have it

01 Sunday Jun 2014

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

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Ocular implants

Apparently, the original ones weren’t good enough, so someone did a little … cosmetic surgery. Seen recently in a window display in Calgary.

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Beer and happiness

30 Friday May 2014

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

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Liquid happiness

Here’s one to kick off your weekend. It appears as if the thought of a nice, icy cold one causes inanimate objects to smile as much as some humans do. This happy sign was seen outside a pub in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood earlier this week.

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