03 Wednesday Dec 2014
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This is a classic Montreal viewpoint. I’d never been as an adult — and drawing on my (admittedly dusty) recollections from my youth, it’s quite possible I’d never seen Montreal from here at all until now.
01 Monday Dec 2014
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canada, Chinatown, CUSM, hospital, montreal, night, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
Now *that’s* different!
It was utterly shocking to turn a corner in Montreal’s Chinatown and see the new University of Montreal hospital complex (Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal) rising high where there used to be only sky. I’ve seen it slowly built on my visits over the years but this is the first time the structure’s seemed so in-your-face.
The building is clearly going to dwarf the entire neighbourhood around it. (For the sake of perspective, I was a bit shy of 500 metres from the building when I snapped this shot.)
There’s a website for the new hospital, en français bien sûr!
30 Sunday Nov 2014
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14 Saturday Jun 2014
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28 Friday Mar 2014
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One of the exhibits at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
23 Sunday Mar 2014
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04 Tuesday Mar 2014
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canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, street art, Travel, urban
Recently spotted this … eclectic door on rue Rachel in Montreal, not too far from Jeanne-Mance Park.
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
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architecture, art, canada, design, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, quebec, Travel
This is part of the newer wing at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
11 Tuesday Feb 2014
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This lovely shadow is cast from a sculpture called Venus Victorious by Renoir and Guino, displayed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
06 Thursday Feb 2014
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art, canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, poster, posters, quebec, random, sticker, stickers, street art, Travel, urban
On every visit back to Montreal, the place where I grew up, I take great pleasure in just walking around, looking for all kinds of stickers and posters placed by street artists.
The truly gifted creators will have made something that rises above the morass of vandals’ visual cacophony — something worthy of permanently adorning the backside of street signs, the faces of traffic light control boxes, lamp posts, bollards, parking meters, bike stands and more.
Indeed, Montreal is full of unremarkable, annoying stickers and posters … but there are so many gems, too.
Here are some of my favourites.
Ricky Leong 