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Water of the spirits

15 Saturday Aug 2020

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, photography, Travel

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alberta, Banff, Banff National Park, beach, canada, hiking, lake, Lake Minnewanka, landscape, staycation, Travel

Water of the spirits

Returned to Banff National Park on Friday to hike up Cascade Mountain with a friend. Afterwards, we took over a couple of Muskoka chairs on the shore of Lake Minnewanka for a quick, late lunch — with a nice view on the side.

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Peaks and valleys

07 Friday Aug 2020

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, photography, Travel

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alberta, Banff, Banff National Park, canada, hiking, landscape, mountain, photography, Travel, trees, valley

Peaks and valleys

Here are a few more snaps from a visit around the town of Banff last weekend.

Looking east(ish), above, through the trees at the top of Tunnel Mountain. Below, from top to bottom, Cascade Mountain looms over Banff Avenue, seen from bridge over the Bow River; looking west(ish) along the Bow River and the Canadian Pacific rail line, from top of Tunnel Mountain; and two images from the Marsh Loop trail.

Banff Avenue
View from Tunnel Mountain
Tree-lined river
Summer vista

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Highway junction

04 Saturday Jul 2020

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, photography, random, rural, Travel

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arizona, clouds, highway, landscape, Las Vegas, Nevada, photography, Travel, U.S.A., United States

Highway junction

Snapped this scene through the window of a bus back in December, while I was making may way from Phoenix to Las Vegas.

(On a technical note: I wonder if the speed of our vehicle created some kind of rolling shutter artifact in this picture, as I’m not certain the sign in the foreground was quite so slanted in real life.)

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Back to the Alberta badlands

06 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural

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alberta, Badlands, canada, Dinosaur Provincial Park, geology, hiking, hoodoo, landscape, photography, photowalk, random, rural, Travel

Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

I hadn’t set foot in Alberta’s badlands for a few years, so it was nice to drop in for a day trip yesterday. This was snapped during a hike in Dinosaur Provincial Park, just north of Bassano, Alberta.

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Pasture

22 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in England, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Brighton, England, hills, landscape, photography, photowalk, random, Rottingdean, Travel, U.K.

Rottingdean, Brighton, England, U.K.

Looking over at some farmland in the hills in the village of Rottingdean, just east of Brighton, England.

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Ideal location for a traffic jam

24 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, photography, random, rural, Travel

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alberta, canada, cattle, fields, landscape, mountains, photography, random, rural, Travel

Cowboy Trail, Alberta, Canada

Roadwork this past weekend caused me to be stationary as I was driving around Alberta’s countryside. If you’re going to get stuck in traffic jam, it might as well somewhere with rewarding scenery like this.

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Looking beyond the trees

04 Tuesday Apr 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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arizona, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, landscape, photography, photowalk, random, rural, Travel

South Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Another shot from my visit to Arizona this winter: Peering through some of the greenery at Hermit’s Rest along the Grand Canyon’s south rim.

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Layers of history

02 Thursday Mar 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, photography, random, rural, Travel

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arizona, geology, landscape, photography, rocks, rural, Travel

Layers of history

Here’s another photo snapped last month, while we were on our way from the Grand Canyon to Page, Arizona.

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Melding of land and sky

17 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural

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arizona, clouds, landscape, Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, photography, photowalk, random, rocks, rural, sky, Travel

At the exit of Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona

The clouds on this day mimic the gentle ripples of the rocks, at the exit of Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona.

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Crags, canyons and shadows

12 Sunday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Arizona, Grand Canyon, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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arizona, geology, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, landscape, panorama, photography, random, rural, Travel

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

This is the view from one of the many breathtaking viewpoints along Hermit Road in Grand Canyon National Park, at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. Our party had been dodging clouds on and off, all afternoon, a couple of Fridays ago and it was fortunate they had moved along far enough by day’s end to allow for some decent photography.

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