19 Thursday Jun 2014
Tags
alberta, calgary, canada, decay, HDR, history, iPhoneography, photowalk, preservation, random, urban
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.
06 Friday Jun 2014
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.
29 Thursday May 2014
Tags
alberta, calgary, canada, heritage, historical, history, preservation
Very glad to see plaques with historical information pop up on buildings all over the Kensington business district.
And in case you missed it, I wrote about the state of historical preservation in Calgary in my Sun column several weeks ago.
29 Tuesday Apr 2014
Posted in art, photography, photowalking, Portland, random, Travel, urban
24 Friday Jan 2014
Posted in art, iPhone, photography, photowalking, Travel, urban
Tags
art, california, Coit Tower, history, iPhoneography, mural, photography, photowalk, san francisco, tourism, Travel, urban
One of the exquisite murals depicting the history of California that adorn the walls of the ground floor at Coit Tower in San Francisco.
06 Monday Jan 2014
Posted in photography, San Diego, Travel
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aircraft carrier, california, history, Midway, museum, navy, photography, San Diego, Travel, U.S.S. Midway
A must-see attraction in San Diego, the U.S.S. Midway Museum documents the history of this storied aircraft carrier and U.S. servicemen’s life at sea in general.
04 Sunday Aug 2013
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, history, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, history, photography, photowalk, random, remembrance, urban
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.
22 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalking, random, urban
08 Saturday Jun 2013
Posted in art, history, London, photography, Travel
This is one of the more interesting artifacts at the British Museum in London, to my mind.
Until I saw this last year, it wasn’t obvious to me what kind of role Arabic played in Chinese art centuries ago.
03 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in art, history, photography, random, Travel
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Brussels, history, montreal, New York, paint, photography, Portland, Seattle, signs, Travel, Winnipeg
I love old advertisements and signs painted on old buildings. Much more elegant than our modern billboards.
The photos immediately above and below were taken in Winnipeg; the next ones are from Seattle, Portland, Brussels, Montreal and New York.
Ricky Leong 