16 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in Apple, architecture, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalking, urban
04 Friday May 2012
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abandoned, alberta, architecture, calgary, canada, decay, history, random, urban photowalk
One of a very few remaining low-rise mixed commercial-residential buildings in Victoria Park. This one’s on Macleod Tr. and is abandoned.
16 Monday Apr 2012
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abandoned, architecture, canada, decay, history, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, photos, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
There’s a lot of work going on next to the Monument National on Saint-Laurent in Montreal. Almost the entire block north of the venue looks like it’s being gutted or renovated.
This building, for example, is just a facade when seen from the main street. You have to go around back to see what’s really going on …
11 Sunday Mar 2012
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canada, history, iPhoneography, Marché Bonsecours, market, montreal, photography, photos, photowalk, pictures, public market, quebec, random, urban
Marché Bonsecours in Old Montreal, this past fall.
It was very pleasant weather for mid-November. The leaves were still turning (as you can see) and there hadn’t been too much snow, if any, by the time I went on this pre-Christmas visit to my birth-city.
The stately marché is currently home to merchants who sell such things as high-end souvenirs, artisanal goods, designer clothes and jewelry. There are also a public spaces for exhibits and concerts, plus a medieval-themed restaurant on the ground floor.
10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, Canada, history, photography, trains, Trains & Transit
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alberta, calgary, canada, Heritage Park, history, locomotive, photography, photos, pictures, steam engine, train, trains
Seen at Heritage Park in September 2008.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
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alberta, building, calgary, canada, demolition, history, photowalk, preservation, urban
With all the building activity around 10 St. N.W. in Kensington, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice something was actually being torn down. That’s just what happened through the month of February in Sunnyside, where the old City of Calgary garage was being taken apart.
As some of you might have noticed, I have a soft spot for older buildings, even if they aren’t (or weren’t) esthetically pleasing in any way. The Sunnyside garage was a utilitarian industrial-style building that fit the character of the neighbourhood around it. That said, I can certainly understand its owners wanting to re-purpose the prime real-estate it sat on for something more mid- to high-density residential, as seems to be going on nearby.
Still, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad, taking in that musty demolition smell as I snapped this photo and a few others.
And within a week, there was nothing left but a heap of rubble. One more historical Calgary building to live on only in our memories.
26 Monday May 2008
Posted in architecture, friends, fun, history, photowalking, Travel
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canada, cape breton, citadel, fortress, halifax, historic, history, louisbourg, nova scotia, road trip, sydney, travel wedding
Just posted a whack of pictures from my trip to the East Coast to my Flickr site.
Here are a few of my favourites.
From my buddy T.J.’s wedding:
Outside the wedding venue … a giant fiddle:
At Louisbourg:
From the Halifax Citadel:
More on my Flickr stream.
Ricky Leong 