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Trash talk, Montreal style

02 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by Ricky Leong in montreal, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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canada, montreal, photowalk, quebec, random, urban

Ceci est un dépotoir

Here’s some creative editing on a sign that originally asks people not to leave their garbage lying around because the area isn’t a dump. The sign now (predictably) invites people to place their trash here because it is a dump. Of course.
From Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood over the weekend.

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Dream big

01 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, montreal, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Vers les cieux

This is a larger-than-life, two-dimensional astronaut drawn into in a huge space travel dreamscape on a wall along Mont-Royal Avenue E. in Montreal, as seen last week.
How much larger than life is it? The photo below gives you a hint.

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Calgary at sunset, once more

31 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, random, urban

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alberta, calgary, canada, iPhoneography, random, skyline, sunset, urban

Golden hour, dead of winter

So if you didn’t already know, I’m a real sucker for sunset shots … and Calgary seems particularly pretty at that hour. Here’s the downtown skyline as seen from my employer’s temporary office space, just a short drive from our usual workplace. Snapped at the beginning of January.

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Rotterdam Centraal

30 Saturday Jan 2016

Posted by Ricky Leong in Netherlands, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Rotterdam, trains, Trains & Transit, Travel, urban

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Centraal Station

This building doesn’t look like much from this angle but to borrow from a popular science-fiction TV series … Rotterdam’s central train station is way bigger from the inside. Its modest facades definitely belie the structure’s cavernous interior.

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Embrace the world

24 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Ricky Leong in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Embrace the world

This view of our globe stands high up in an alley in downtown Phoenix, another image snapped on my visit there this past November.

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Urban: Seattle sidewalk photography

17 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Seattle, Travel, urban

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Urban

Subtle signs of fall, spotted in Seattle this past November.

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Thoughtful graffiti

15 Friday Jan 2016

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

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Where I create, there I am true

Even at construction sites, the graffiti aficionados of Munich seem to only pick the best ideas for use in defacing temporary walls. Spotted back in September.

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Strolling amid showers

28 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in Netherlands, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Rotterdam, Travel

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Strolling amid showers

Here’s a neat little below-grade shopping district in the heart of Rotterdam. This image was shot back on a very short visit there in September.

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Scorpion’s tale

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Scorpion's tale

Spotted this piece of public art in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, near all the sports stadiums. I never did figure out what all the little figures are actually trying to do with the giant scorpion …

Scorpion's tale II

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Face of Fine Arts

17 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, San Francisco, Travel, urban

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Face of Fine Arts

Here’s one of the many faces staring down from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Snapped on a stop-over visit last month.

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