23 Friday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
A fire tore through this bed and breakfast on 10A Street N.W. in Calgary back in April. Since then, a chronicle of its life spanning more than a century has appeared on the plywood covering its front windows. Thanks for the memories, indeed.
22 Thursday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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alberta, architecture, canada, design, Edmonton, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban
Looking through a skylight in downtown Edmonton, under a bright afternoon sun. Snapped on a recent visit to Alberta’s capital city.
21 Wednesday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
20 Tuesday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
12 Monday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, architecture, calgary, canada, design, iPhoneography, photowalk, random, typography, urban
Crews continue putting the finishing touches on the new home for the Kensington Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion in Calgary. In the photo above, the old legion hall is the low, brown building in the background on the right side of the frame. These pictures were snapped a few days ago.
11 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, HDR, history, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, preservation, random, urban
Today, the Rocky Ridge and Tuscany neighbourhoods are just far-flung suburban areas of Calgary. But back in the 1950 and ’60, there was not much around the area, except a lot of open spaces and a service station along the highway to Cochrane.
The Eamon’s Bungalow Camp sign was restored and made part of the Tuscany CTrain station. The garage was put into storage some time ago and purchased for a nominal sum by a group in High River, to be restored and used there.
The photos here were snapped a few days ago.
20 Monday Mar 2017
Posted in architecture, design, Germany, Leipzig, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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architecture, design, Germany, iPhoneography, Leipzig, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, university, urban
This modern university building in Leipzig, Germany, mimics what stood there previously. Snapped this photo back in September.
17 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, transit, transportation, Travel
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Deutsche Bahn, Germany, iPhoneography, photography, rail, railroad, railway, random, sleeping car, train, trains, Travel
This is a view of the sleeping car hallway as we rolled down the track from Köln to Berlin … as seen with my smartphone camera through the peephole in the door. Shot on my travels through Europe this past September.
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, art, calgary, camera, cameras, canada, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, random, smartphone, tech, technology, urban
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.
18 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel
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arizona, geology, iPhoneography, Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, photography, photowalk, random, rocks, rural, Travel
Rock solid. Between a rock and a hard place. Hard as a rock. So many of expressions and clichés are built upon the durability of rocks.
And yet, wandering through the maze that makes up the Lower Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona, one can only be struck by how malleable rock truly is.
It was water that carved out the canyon. And with every summer rainstorm, it is water that continues to shape and reshape the place.
The result is visually stunning, of course — sunlight giving life to a wavy, rippling red-rock landscape reaching dozens of metres deep.
