20 Monday May 2013
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Spotted this lonely-looking pupster just beyond Vancouver’s Chinatown, toward downtown.
19 Sunday May 2013
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17 Friday May 2013
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Seen on a side street in Gastown, Vancouver.
16 Thursday May 2013
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b.c., british columbia, canada, Chinatown, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban, vancouver
Pender. Keefer. Columbia. Main.
Those street names in Vancouver’s Chinatown were oddly familiar to me on my first visit in 2006, even though I’d never been there before.
In a sense, though, I’d already been, thanks to a couple of novels by Canadian author Wayson Choy.
His portrayal of Chinese immigrants’ lives in early part of the last century gave a taste of what the neighbourhood would have been like.
Things are not that way anymore, of course.
But the landmarks and the names are still there.
15 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Apple, architecture, British Columbia, Canada, fun, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, technology, trains, transit, Travel, urban, Vancouver
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b.c., british columbia, canada, Canadian Pacific, history, iPhone, iPhoneography, panorama, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, random, roundhouse, train, trains, Travel, urban, vancouver, Yaletown
This is the former Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown district, captured with a sweep of my iPhone’s camera in “panorama” mode.
It was really interesting to try this, because the roundhouse is built in the shape of an arc … so if you’re standing at the centrepoint of the arc and you swivel to capture the panorama, the main subject doesn’t look very distorted at all, while everything else does.
12 Sunday May 2013
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… including Toronto’s hallmark and iconic City Hall building.
10 Friday May 2013
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Along the Thompson River valley in B.C. … spotted from Via Rail’s Toronto-Vancouver transcontinental train, “The Canadian”.
09 Thursday May 2013
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architecture, art, bridge, canada, design, iPhoneography, Manitoba, photography, photowalk, Travel, urban, Winnipeg
This beautiful pedestrian bridge in Winnipeg, Manitoba, links the Forks area just off Union Station with the city’s traditionally francophone area, St. Boniface.
(The photo above was captured with an SLR; the bottom one was snapped with my iPhone.)
08 Wednesday May 2013
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07 Tuesday May 2013
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Good morning, amorphous blob with a loudspeaker! Spotted in Vancouver.
Ricky Leong 