Leduc #1 Oil Derrick at the Gateway Visitor Information Centre

The early morning light was so beautiful, Tony Baller couldn’t resist stopping for a quick photo. The result was this brilliantly coloured image, shot through the Leduc #1 Oil Derrick at the Gateway Visitor Information Centre at the southern limits of Edmonton. “It was just at sunrise and I was heading out to run a karate class in Devon. The light was great, and I had a camera with me,” says Baller, a sales manager for a pharmaceutical company, who counts photography, as well as karate, among his hobbies. His choice of perspective on the oil derrick was inspired by the vibrant sky. “I just wanted to look at it differently, rather than head-on, and I really wanted to catch the sky — the blue was just brilliant as the sun was coming up.”

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St. Joseph's Seminary

It was the perfect image to christen Marshall McAlister’s new camera with on Christmas Eve.

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Sense of Place

Edmonton, like most cities, is full of iconic buildings familiar to people who live here, whether for their location (the Shaw Conference Centre, built into the side of the river valley), their shape (the flatiron building) or their grandeur (the Hotel Macdonald, the Magrath Mansion on Ada Boulevard). Then there are the less familiar, but no less interesting spots, perhaps known only to those who live or work nearby. Sense of Place is a regular feature in Style -- a photo series celebrating these buildings, either by capturing a well-known exterior from a unique perspective, or by featuring an interesting-looking place unknown to most of us.

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Sense of Place is a photo series in the Edmonton Journal's Style section that celebrates interesting buildings in the city. Here are the spots we've featured so far; to read more go to edmontonjournal.com/life

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CN Tower

Edmonton, like most cities, is full of iconic buildings familiar to people who live here, whether for their location (the Shaw Conference Centre, built into the side of the river valley), their shape (the flatiron building) or their grandeur (the Hotel Macdonald, the Magrath Mansion on Ada Boulevard).

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Energy Square

In this picture, light reflected off the Energy Square building at 10109 106 St. creates an eye-catching pattern on the brick exterior of the adjacent building.

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