10 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in art, New York, photography, photowalking, random, trains, transit, Travel, urban
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art, ceramics, New York, NYC, photography, photowalk, random, station, subway, train, trains, transit, Travel, urban
A follow-up to yesterday’s photo: This is at 66 St. Subway station in New York. Lots of beautiful ceramic art adorn the station walls — not just at that station but throughout all the underground parts of the network.
09 Sunday Jun 2013
Posted in art, design, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, video
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neon, night, photography, photowalk, random, Seattle, Travel, urban, Washington
More nighttime neon from my visit to Seattle this winter.
06 Thursday Jun 2013
Posted in iPhone, photography, photowalking, Portland, random, trains, Travel, urban
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Amtrak, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, Oregon, photography, Portland, rail, railroad, railway, random, train, trains, Travel, urban
From my trip there a few months ago … Lining up at Portland Union Station for an Amtrak train to Seattle.
05 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in art, Canada, fun, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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.
28 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in architecture, art, British Columbia, Calgary, history, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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b.c., british columbia, canada, photography, photowalk, random, totem, Travel, urban, vancouver
Awesome visual/cultural element ornamenting Vancouver’s urban landscape, seen last month.
25 Saturday May 2013
Posted in Alberta, Canada, photography, trains, Travel
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alberta, canada, Jasper, photography, rail, railroad, railway, rocky mountains, station, tourism, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail
Via Rail won’t let dirty windows ruin a Rocky Mountain vista. Here are some employees hard at work cleaning the windows of Toronto-Vancouver train “The Canadian” during a station stop in Jasper, Alberta.
24 Friday May 2013
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alberta, art, calgary, Calgary Expo, canada, comic expo, cosplay, expo, gaming, makeup, photography, science fiction
One of my favourite makeup jobs from last month’s Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.
21 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in Flickr, Internet, photography, random, technology
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I was afraid of this — some wrinkle in the fine print of the massive changes to photo-sharing website Flickr made yesterday.
There’s nothing wrong with the esthetic improvements, to my mind.
All the trouble lies under the hood.
As blogger/photographer Thomas Hawk found out, the status of “Pro” accounts wasn’t as static as first thought.
Certain people’s current Pro account will eventually expire and those users will be forced into a new upgrade regime — $49.99 annually to remove ads; $499.99 annually to double space allocation to two terabytes. (That second one is not a typo: Four-hundred ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents.)
Other Pro accounts will be allowed to continue.
It is still unclear to me how this Pro vs. Ad-Free/Doublr is suppose to shake down.
Will someone at Flickr please provide a CLEAR explanation of who is entitled to what? Who still has access to old-style Flickr Pro and who doesn’t?
What entitlements that were previously reserved for Pro users will be available to all users with the new free program?
How do I find out how much space I still have? One terabyte is a lot of data but I like to be organized …
Flickr has a few answers here: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#150582914
Still, it feels as if I’m information is being withheld or poorly explained.
I just tried to buy two more years under the current Pro regime … and it appears I’ve succeeded — even though the documentation states I shouldn’t be able to do so.
What changed in the last few hours? Has Flickr changed who’s entitled to a Pro account?
Essentially, I’d like to know how screwed I am when my Pro account expires … if it ever does.
This is turning out to be more confusing that it should be.
p.s. In the minutes after I took that screen capture of Thomas Hawk’s blog, he was also able to extend his Flickr Pro account. He is (not surprisingly) ecstatic.
20 Monday May 2013
Posted in Flickr, photography, technology
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I’d been wondering how long it would be before the wonderful justified view for my contacts in Flickr would come to my own photostream.
The answer is … today. That and a whole bunch of other changes and goodies from Flickr.
After you log in, you are immediately shown a feed of your contacts’ images. Not puny little thumbnails as before, but medium-large size images you can scroll through vertically.
The new “wrap” around the main page has a Google-like quality to it, with persistent menus at the top and the right side of the page. (Flickr is owned by Yahoo, oddly enough.)
Navigate to your own photostream and you’ll see what I mentioned before: Your own images shown in a pretty mosaic (justified view), the same as the contacts page has been for the better part of a year.
All in all, the visuals in your web browser resemble that of the iOS Flickr app.
There appear to be a few other changes, under the hood.
Whereas before, members who used the free version of Flickr had monthly upload limits, it appears this has changed to a hard cap on space placed at one terabyte.
However, with the free service, there are ad and no detailed statistics. (Same as before.)
There are no changes for Flickr users who pay for a pro account.
Ricky Leong 