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A rare photo opportunity presented itself, and I took the bait. Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern (Erie Heritage) locomotives pull Union Pacific's Murdock, Utah - Shafter, Nevada ballast train, eastbound on the Salt Lake Route near Erda, Utah. 4.12.2023
the light pollution from Calgary acts as a false sunset. this is just after midnight at Forgetmenot pond in Kananaskis
Calgary, a cosmopolitan Alberta city with numerous skyscrapers, owes its rapid growth to its status as the centre of Canada’s oil industry. However, it’s still steeped in the western culture that earned it the nickname “Cowtown,” evident in the Calgary Stampede, its massive July rodeo and festival that grew out of the farming exhibitions once presented here. ― Google
The Calgary Globalfest international fireworks competition got off to a bright start with Brazil on Friday night
The Calgary Central Library, also known as the Calgary New Central Library (NCL), is the flagship branch of the Calgary Public Library system. It opened on November 1, 2018, replacing an earlier central branch built in the 1960s in Downtown Calgary.
The four-storey building cost CA$245 million to construct and was designed by American-Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta and Canadian firm DIALOG after the two firms' joint bid won a design competition in 2013. Their design features an oval-like form and an interior with a large central atrium with a skylight. The building is elevated one floor above street level to accommodate a Calgary light rail trackway below, as well as a public plaza.
The entrance is framed by wood-clad arches inspired by the shape of arched clouds made by Chinook winds in Alberta. The upper floors feature book stacks with space for 450,000 titles. Landscaping around the library and adjoining plaza consists of terracing inspired by the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. (Wikipedia)
After the major floods of 2013 all along the river banks new flood retention measures are being installed.The new path from the bow trail to center street bridge is now open this side ,
The home of the Calgary Flames , a new arena is in the plans so time to get a few shots before it's gone.
With the economy the way it is, and the huge vacancy rate in the downtown commercial core, there are no construction cranes in sight. One in three of the buildings are effectively empty...
I have photographed this scene near my home so many times. This year I noticed that the lone pine tree at the end of the island that anchors the composition is dead.
The Calgary Public Library is architecturally stunning, with huge skylight windows filling the cavernous atrium with direct sunlight on all floors of the building. The woodwork has a warm glow in colour but I chose to capture this in monochrome to accentuate the sun and shadow of the multistory staircase.
Often on my walks around town I take my bucket and litter picker along and clean up what I can , on the whole the city is very clean and on this day I did around 10 to 12 bucket fulls. every bit helps that is for sure.
I needed to get to the downtown library, but didn't have a lot time and couldn't take transit like I would normally. But then I remembered the new downtown parking garage (know colloquially here as a 'Parkade') has finally opened, and it looks architecturally interesting. The views from the parkade were new and different, and the interiors were fascinating, but I'll post some of those later. In this series, I have posted a shot from inside the elevator, as it was of a design I have never encountered before.
I revisited several archival images of Canada recently. Here's one taken of the Calgar skyline I missed the first time around.
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