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The sky never ends

03 Saturday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in fun, iPhone, New York, photography, photowalking, Travel, urban

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columbus circle, iPhone, New York, photography, photos, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

The sky never ends

The Time-Warner Center towers over Columbus Circle in New York as it blends into a pleasant, summer sky in August 2011.

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Alma Mater

01 Thursday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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canada, Concordia, Concordia University, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban

One of the newer buildings at Concordia University’s downtown (Sir George Williams) campus in Montreal.

Visually complex

Very cool foyer, lots of art exhibited inside. Wish it was around when I studied there!
Taken in January.

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Domestic tourism

29 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, random, urban

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alberta, calgary, calgary tower, canada, city vistas, photography, photowalk, random, urban

Sorry for the long gap between posts — but yes, I’m still here.
For the Family Day long weekend, I thought it would be great to go up the Calgary Tower to take in the view.
I’d never been there before and the weather was absolutely gorgeous on the Monday afternoon.
I wasn’t the only one admiring the awesome city vistas from up there:

Observing together

Whoever you are, thank you for helping me make a cool photo.

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Occupied and preoccupied

24 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalking, politics, urban

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alberta, calgary, canada, Occupy, OccupyCalgary, photowalk, random, urban

The Occupy Calgary tents at Olympic Plaza remain up as of today.

They are the 99%

Temporary housing

Garnering at-tent-ion

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Falling for beauty

23 Sunday Oct 2011

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alberta, calgary, canada, photowalk, random, urban

An awesome view of Calgary’s downtown core, seen from the zoo side of the 12 St. bridge.

Falling for beauty

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Smile!

20 Thursday Oct 2011

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alberta, auto, automobile, calgary, canada, car, cars, licence plate, random, road, roads, urban

Awesome vanity licence plate, especially for those Albertans who read French.

Smile!

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Emerging from darkness

26 Friday Aug 2011

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, Trains & Transit, transit, Travel, urban

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New York, NYC, photography, rail, railroad, railway, random, subway, train, trains, urban

Here’s an unexpected photo capture. I was in the last car of a No. 7 subway train as it was leaving Main St. station in Flushing. I decided to try a long-exposure shot inside the tunnel when all of a sudden there was no more tunnel and we were in broad daylight. This is the result.

Emerging from darkness

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Fire up the grill

23 Tuesday Aug 2011

Posted by Ricky Leong in food, fun, New York, Travel

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New York, NYC, photowalk, random, U.S.A., urban

What’s a visit to New York without a little bit of street meat?

Final touch

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From street to meadow

22 Monday Aug 2011

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New York, NYC, photowalk, random, urban

A surprising find in Lower Manhattan. Grass growing freely is not what you’d expect here!

From street to meadow

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Water rising

28 Saturday May 2011

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alberta, bow river, calgary, canada, flood, pathway, photowalk, random, urban, water

Lots of rain, plus spring melt and you start to get scenes like this.

Water rising

The lower pathways on both sides of the Bow River @ Centre St. were closed to the public because of this.
Of course the situation is much worse in lower-lying areas across southern Alberta this weekend.

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Journalist by trade, photographer for fun. I help make multi-platform content at Postmedia in Calgary. Opinions expressed here are my own.

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